KEncodingProber Class Reference

#include <KEncodingProber>

Public Types
enum	ProberState { FoundIt, NotMe, Probing }
enum	ProberType {   None, Universal, Arabic, Baltic,   CentralEuropean, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Cyrillic,   Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean,   NorthernSaami, Other, SouthEasternEurope, Thai,   Turkish, Unicode, WesternEuropean }

Public Member Functions
	KEncodingProber (const KEncodingProber &)=delete
	KEncodingProber (ProberType proberType=Universal)
float	confidence () const
QByteArray	encoding () const
ProberState	feed (const char *data, int len)
ProberState	feed (const QByteArray &data)
KEncodingProber &	operator= (const KEncodingProber &)=delete
ProberType	proberType () const
void	reset ()
void	setProberType (ProberType proberType)
ProberState	state () const

Static Public Member Functions
static QString	nameForProberType (ProberType proberType)
static ProberType	proberTypeForName (const QString &lang)

Detailed Description

Provides encoding detection(probe) capabilities.

Probe the encoding of raw data only. In the case it can't find it, return the most possible encoding it guessed.

Always do Unicode probe regardless the ProberType

Feed data to it several times with feed() until ProberState changes to FoundIt/NotMe, or confidence() returns a value you find acceptable.

Intended lifetime of the object: one instance per ProberType.

Typical use:

QByteArray data, moredata;
...
KEncodingProber prober(KEncodingProber::Chinese);
prober.feed(data);
prober.feed(moredata);
if (prober.confidence() > 0.6)
   encoding  = prober.encoding();

At least 256 characters are needed to change the ProberState from Probing to FoundIt. If you don't have so many characters to probe, decide whether to accept the encoding it guessed so far according to the Confidence by yourself.

Guess encoding of char array

Definition at line 59 of file kencodingprober.h.

Member Enumeration Documentation

ProberState

enum KEncodingProber::ProberState

Enumerator
FoundIt	Sure find the encoding.
NotMe	Sure not included in current ProberType's all supported encodings
Probing	Need more data to make a decision.

Definition at line 64 of file kencodingprober.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

KEncodingProber()

KEncodingProber::KEncodingProber

(

KEncodingProber::ProberType

proberType = Universal

)

Default ProberType is Universal(detect all possible encodings)

Definition at line 138 of file kencodingprober.cpp.

Member Function Documentation

confidence()

float KEncodingProber::confidence

(

)

const

Returns

the confidence(sureness) of encoding it guessed so far (0.0 ~ 0.99), not very reliable for single byte encodings

Definition at line 202 of file kencodingprober.cpp.

encoding()

QByteArray KEncodingProber::encoding

(

)

const

Returns

a QByteArray with the name of the best encoding it has guessed so far

Since

4.2.2

Definition at line 193 of file kencodingprober.cpp.

feed()

KEncodingProber::ProberState KEncodingProber::feed

(

const QByteArray &

data

)

The main class method.

feed data to the prober

Returns

the ProberState after probing the fed data.

Definition at line 152 of file kencodingprober.cpp.

nameForProberType()

QString KEncodingProber::nameForProberType ( KEncodingProber::ProberType  proberType )

static

map ProberType to language string

Definition at line 263 of file kencodingprober.cpp.

proberTypeForName()

KEncodingProber::ProberType KEncodingProber::proberTypeForName ( const QString &  lang )

static

Returns

the ProberType for lang (eg. proberTypeForName("Chinese Simplified") will return KEncodingProber::ChineseSimplified

Definition at line 222 of file kencodingprober.cpp.

reset()

void KEncodingProber::reset

(

)

reset the prober's internal state and data.

Definition at line 146 of file kencodingprober.cpp.

setProberType()

void KEncodingProber::setProberType

(

KEncodingProber::ProberType

proberType

)

change current prober's ProberType and reset the prober

Definition at line 216 of file kencodingprober.cpp.

state()

KEncodingProber::ProberState KEncodingProber::state

(

)

const

Returns

the prober's current ProberState

Definition at line 188 of file kencodingprober.cpp.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• kencodingprober.h
• kencodingprober.cpp