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+// FbString.hh for fluxbox 
+// Copyright (c) 2006 Henrik Kinnunen (fluxgen at fluxbox dot org)
+// Copyright (c) 2006 Simon Bowden    (rathnor at fluxbox dot org)
+// 
+// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+// copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+// to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+// the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+// and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+// Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+//
+// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+// all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+//
+// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+// IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+// FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
+// THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+// LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+// FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+// DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+//$Id$
+
+#ifndef FBTK_FBSTRING_HH
+#define FBTK_FBSTRING_HH
+
+#include <string>
+
+namespace FbTk {
+
+// Use this type for things converted to our internal encoding (UTF-8)
+// (or just plain whatever for now if no utf-8 available)
+typedef std::string FbString;
+
+namespace FbStringUtil {
+
+void init();
+void shutdown();
+
+/// Stuff to handle strings in different encodings
+/// Rule: Only hardcode-initialise FbStrings as ascii (7bit) characters
+
+// NOTE: X "STRING" types are defined (ICCCM) as ISO Latin-1 encoding
+FbString XStrToFb(const std::string &src);
+std::string FbStrToX(const FbString &src);
+
+/// Handle thislocale string encodings (strings coming from userspace)
+FbString LocaleStrToFb(const std::string &src);
+std::string FbStrToLocale(const FbString &src);
+
+// essentially NO-OP
+inline FbString UTF8StrToFb(const std::string &src) { return src; } 
+inline std::string FbStrToUTF8(const FbString &src) { return src; }
+
+bool haveUTF8();
+
+} // namespace FbStringUtil
+} // namespace FbTk
+
+#endif // FBTK_FBSTRING_HH
+