--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/fontservices/textshaperplugin/IcuSource/common/charstr.h	Tue Feb 02 02:02:46 2010 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+/*
+**********************************************************************
+*   Copyright (c) 2001-2004, International Business Machines
+*   Corporation and others.  All Rights Reserved.
+**********************************************************************
+*   Date        Name        Description
+*   11/19/2001  aliu        Creation.
+**********************************************************************
+*/
+
+#ifndef CHARSTRING_H
+#define CHARSTRING_H
+
+#include "unicode/utypes.h"
+#include "unicode/uobject.h"
+#include "unicode/unistr.h"
+#include "cmemory.h"
+
+//--------------------------------------------------------------------
+// class CharString
+//
+// This is a tiny wrapper class that is used internally to make a
+// UnicodeString look like a const char*.  It can be allocated on the
+// stack.  It only creates a heap buffer if it needs to.
+//--------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
+
+class U_COMMON_API CharString : public UMemory {
+public:
+
+#if !UCONFIG_NO_CONVERSION
+    // Constructor
+    //     @param  str    The unicode string to be converted to char *
+    //     @param  codepage   The char * code page.  ""   for invariant conversion.
+    //                                               NULL for default code page.
+//    inline CharString(const UnicodeString& str, const char *codepage);
+#endif
+
+    inline CharString(const UnicodeString& str);
+    inline ~CharString();
+    inline operator const char*() const { return ptr; }
+
+private:
+    char buf[128];
+    char* ptr;
+
+    CharString(const CharString &other); // forbid copying of this class
+    CharString &operator=(const CharString &other); // forbid copying of this class
+};
+
+#if !UCONFIG_NO_CONVERSION
+
+// PLEASE DON'T USE THIS FUNCTION.
+// We don't want the static dependency on conversion or the performance hit that comes from a codepage conversion.
+/*
+inline CharString::CharString(const UnicodeString& str, const char *codepage) {
+    int32_t    len;
+    ptr = buf;
+    len = str.extract(0, 0x7FFFFFFF, buf ,sizeof(buf)-1, codepage);
+    if (len >= (int32_t)(sizeof(buf)-1)) {
+        ptr = (char *)uprv_malloc(len+1);
+        str.extract(0, 0x7FFFFFFF, ptr, len+1, codepage);
+    }
+}*/
+
+#endif
+
+inline CharString::CharString(const UnicodeString& str) {
+    int32_t    len;
+    ptr = buf;
+    len = str.extract(0, 0x7FFFFFFF, buf, (int32_t)(sizeof(buf)-1), US_INV);
+    if (len >= (int32_t)(sizeof(buf)-1)) {
+        ptr = (char *)uprv_malloc(len+1);
+        str.extract(0, 0x7FFFFFFF, ptr, len+1, US_INV);
+    }
+}
+
+inline CharString::~CharString() {
+    if (ptr != buf) {
+        uprv_free(ptr);
+    }
+}
+
+U_NAMESPACE_END
+
+#endif
+//eof