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Creates an instance of the codec.

Declaration

Encodes a Unicode scalar as a series of code units by calling the given closure on each code unit.

For example, the musical fermata symbol ("𝄐") is a single Unicode scalar value (\u{1D110}) but requires four code units for its UTF-8 representation. The following code uses the UTF8 codec to encode a fermata in UTF-8:

var bytes: [UTF8.CodeUnit] = []
UTF8.encode("𝄐", into: { bytes.append($0) })
print(bytes)
// Prints "[240, 157, 132, 144]"

Parameters: input: The Unicode scalar value to encode. processCodeUnit: A closure that processes one code unit argument at a time.

Declaration

Starts or continues decoding a code unit sequence into Unicode scalar values.

To decode a code unit sequence completely, call this method repeatedly until it returns UnicodeDecodingResult.emptyInput. Checking that the iterator was exhausted is not sufficient, because the decoder can store buffered data from the input iterator.

Because of buffering, it is impossible to find the corresponding position in the iterator for a given returned UnicodeScalar or an error.

The following example decodes the UTF-8 encoded bytes of a string into an array of UnicodeScalar instances:

let str = "✨Unicode✨"
print(Array(str.utf8))
// Prints "[226, 156, 168, 85, 110, 105, 99, 111, 100, 101, 226, 156, 168]"
 
var bytesIterator = str.utf8.makeIterator()
var scalars: [UnicodeScalar] = []
var utf8Decoder = UTF8()
Decode: while true {
    switch utf8Decoder.decode(&bytesIterator) {
    case .scalarValue(let v): scalars.append(v)
    case .emptyInput: break Decode
    case .error:
        print("Decoding error")
        break Decode
    }
}
print(scalars)
// Prints "["\u{2728}", "U", "n", "i", "c", "o", "d", "e", "\u{2728}"]"

input: An iterator of code units to be decoded. input must be the same iterator instance in repeated calls to this method. Do not advance the iterator or any copies of the iterator outside this method. Returns: A UnicodeDecodingResult instance, representing the next Unicode scalar, an indication of an error, or an indication that the UTF sequence has been fully decoded.

Declaration