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diff --git a/include/linux/nls.h b/include/linux/nls.h
index 6a882208301..d47beef08df 100644
--- a/include/linux/nls.h
+++ b/include/linux/nls.h
@@ -3,8 +3,23 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
-/* unicode character */
-typedef __u16 wchar_t;
+/* Unicode has changed over the years. Unicode code points no longer
+ * fit into 16 bits; as of Unicode 5 valid code points range from 0
+ * to 0x10ffff (17 planes, where each plane holds 65536 code points).
+ *
+ * The original decision to represent Unicode characters as 16-bit
+ * wchar_t values is now outdated. But plane 0 still includes the
+ * most commonly used characters, so we will retain it. The newer
+ * 32-bit unicode_t type can be used when it is necessary to
+ * represent the full Unicode character set.
+ */
+
+/* Plane-0 Unicode character */
+typedef u16 wchar_t;
+#define MAX_WCHAR_T 0xffff
+
+/* Arbitrary Unicode character */
+typedef u32 unicode_t;
struct nls_table {
const char *charset;
@@ -21,6 +36,13 @@ struct nls_table {
/* this value hold the maximum octet of charset */
#define NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE 6 /* for UTF-8 */
+/* Byte order for UTF-16 strings */
+enum utf16_endian {
+ UTF16_HOST_ENDIAN,
+ UTF16_LITTLE_ENDIAN,
+ UTF16_BIG_ENDIAN
+};
+
/* nls.c */
extern int register_nls(struct nls_table *);
extern int unregister_nls(struct nls_table *);
@@ -28,10 +50,11 @@ extern struct nls_table *load_nls(char *);
extern void unload_nls(struct nls_table *);
extern struct nls_table *load_nls_default(void);
-extern int utf8_mbtowc(wchar_t *, const __u8 *, int);
-extern int utf8_mbstowcs(wchar_t *, const __u8 *, int);
-extern int utf8_wctomb(__u8 *, wchar_t, int);
-extern int utf8_wcstombs(__u8 *, const wchar_t *, int);
+extern int utf8_to_utf32(const u8 *s, int len, unicode_t *pu);
+extern int utf32_to_utf8(unicode_t u, u8 *s, int maxlen);
+extern int utf8s_to_utf16s(const u8 *s, int len, wchar_t *pwcs);
+extern int utf16s_to_utf8s(const wchar_t *pwcs, int len,
+ enum utf16_endian endian, u8 *s, int maxlen);
static inline unsigned char nls_tolower(struct nls_table *t, unsigned char c)
{
@@ -58,6 +81,25 @@ static inline int nls_strnicmp(struct nls_table *t, const unsigned char *s1,
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * nls_nullsize - return length of null character for codepage
+ * @codepage - codepage for which to return length of NULL terminator
+ *
+ * Since we can't guarantee that the null terminator will be a particular
+ * length, we have to check against the codepage. If there's a problem
+ * determining it, assume a single-byte NULL terminator.
+ */
+static inline int
+nls_nullsize(const struct nls_table *codepage)
+{
+ int charlen;
+ char tmp[NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE];
+
+ charlen = codepage->uni2char(0, tmp, NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE);
+
+ return charlen > 0 ? charlen : 1;
+}
+
#define MODULE_ALIAS_NLS(name) MODULE_ALIAS("nls_" __stringify(name))
#endif /* _LINUX_NLS_H */