/*

* Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

* All rights reserved.

* This component and the accompanying materials are made available

* under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"

* which accompanies this distribution, and is available

* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".

*

* Initial Contributors:

* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.

*

* Contributors:

*

* Description: 

* @internalComponent * @released

*

*/

#ifndef __UTF16_STRING_H__

#define __UTF16_STRING_H__

#include <e32std.h> 

#include <string>

#include <fstream>

using namespace std ;

class UTF16String {

public :

	UTF16String();

	UTF16String(const UTF16String& aRight);

	UTF16String(const string& aUtf8Str);

	UTF16String(const TUint16* aUtf16Str,TInt aLength = -1);

	UTF16String(const char* aUtf8Str,TInt aLength = -1);	

	~UTF16String();	

	bool FromFile(const char* aFileName);

	bool ToUTF8(string& aResult) const ;	

	bool Assign(const char* aUtf8Str,TInt aLength = -1);	

	inline TUint length() const { return iLength ;} 

	inline TUint bytes() const { return (iLength << 1) ;} 

	const TUint16* c_str() const ;

	inline bool IsEmpty() const { return  (0 == iLength) ;}	

	UTF16String& operator = (const UTF16String& aRight);

	int Compare(const TUint16* aUtf16Str) const ;

	int CompareNoCase(const TUint16* aUtf16Str) const ;

	TUint16* Alloc(size_t aNewLen);

protected:

	TUint16* iData ;

	TUint iLength ;	

};

#endif