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    3    Author:        Jan Wielemaker
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   34
   35:- module(utf8,
   36          [ utf8_codes//1               % ?String
   37          ]).

UTF-8 encoding/decoding on lists of character codes.

*/

 utf8_codes(?Codes)// is det
DCG translating between a Unicode code-list and its UTF-8 encoded byte-string. The DCG works two ways. Encoding a code-list to a UTF-8 byte string is achieved using
phrase(utf8_codes(Codes), UTF8)

The algorithm is a close copy of the C-algorithm used internally and defined in src/pl-utf8.c

NOTE: in many cases you can avoid this library and leave encoding and decoding to I/O streams. If only part of the data is to be encoded the encoding of a stream can be switched temporary using set_stream(Stream, encoding(utf8))

See also
- set_stream/2.
   60utf8_codes([H|T]) -->
   61    utf8_code(H),
   62    !,
   63    utf8_codes(T).
   64utf8_codes([]) -->
   65    [].
   66
   67utf8_code(C) -->
   68    [C0],
   69    { nonvar(C0) },                % decoding version
   70    !,
   71    (   {C0 < 0x80}
   72    ->  {C = C0}
   73    ;   {C0/\0xe0 =:= 0xc0}
   74    ->  utf8_cont(C1, 0),
   75        {C is (C0/\0x1f)<<6\/C1}
   76    ;   {C0/\0xf0 =:= 0xe0}
   77    ->  utf8_cont(C1, 6),
   78        utf8_cont(C2, 0),
   79        {C is ((C0/\0xf)<<12)\/C1\/C2}
   80    ;   {C0/\0xf8 =:= 0xf0}
   81    ->  utf8_cont(C1, 12),
   82        utf8_cont(C2, 6),
   83        utf8_cont(C3, 0),
   84        {C is ((C0/\0x7)<<18)\/C1\/C2\/C3}
   85    ;   {C0/\0xfc =:= 0xf8}
   86    ->  utf8_cont(C1, 18),
   87        utf8_cont(C2, 12),
   88        utf8_cont(C3, 6),
   89        utf8_cont(C4, 0),
   90        {C is ((C0/\0x3)<<24)\/C1\/C2\/C3\/C4}
   91    ;   {C0/\0xfe =:= 0xfc}
   92    ->  utf8_cont(C1, 24),
   93        utf8_cont(C2, 18),
   94        utf8_cont(C3, 12),
   95        utf8_cont(C4, 6),
   96        utf8_cont(C5, 0),
   97        {C is ((C0/\0x1)<<30)\/C1\/C2\/C3\/C4\/C5}
   98    ).
   99utf8_code(C) -->
  100    { nonvar(C) },                 % encoding version
  101    !,
  102    (   { C < 0x80 }
  103    ->  [C]
  104    ;   { C < 0x800 }
  105    ->  { C0 is 0xc0\/((C>>6)/\0x1f),
  106          C1 is 0x80\/(C/\0x3f)
  107        },
  108        [C0,C1]
  109    ;   { C < 0x10000 }
  110    ->  { C0 is 0xe0\/((C>>12)/\0x0f),
  111          C1 is 0x80\/((C>>6)/\0x3f),
  112          C2 is 0x80\/(C/\0x3f)
  113        },
  114        [C0,C1,C2]
  115    ;   { C < 0x200000 }
  116    ->  { C0 is 0xf0\/((C>>18)/\0x07),
  117          C1 is 0x80\/((C>>12)/\0x3f),
  118          C2 is 0x80\/((C>>6)/\0x3f),
  119          C3 is 0x80\/(C/\0x3f)
  120        },
  121        [C0,C1,C2,C3]
  122    ;   { C < 0x4000000 }
  123    ->  { C0 is 0xf8\/((C>>24)/\0x03),
  124          C1 is 0x80\/((C>>18)/\0x3f),
  125          C2 is 0x80\/((C>>12)/\0x3f),
  126          C3 is 0x80\/((C>>6)/\0x3f),
  127          C4 is 0x80\/(C/\0x3f)
  128        },
  129        [C0,C1,C2,C3,C4]
  130    ;   { C < 0x80000000 }
  131    ->  { C0 is 0xfc\/((C>>30)/\0x01),
  132          C1 is 0x80\/((C>>24)/\0x3f),
  133          C2 is 0x80\/((C>>18)/\0x3f),
  134          C3 is 0x80\/((C>>12)/\0x3f),
  135          C4 is 0x80\/((C>>6)/\0x3f),
  136          C5 is 0x80\/(C/\0x3f)
  137        },
  138        [C0,C1,C2,C3,C4,C5]
  139    ).
  140
  141utf8_cont(Val, Shift) -->
  142    [C],
  143    { C/\0xc0 =:= 0x80,
  144      Val is (C/\0x3f)<<Shift
  145    }