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Creates an instance of the UTF-32 codec.

Declaration

Encodes a Unicode scalar as a UTF-32 code unit by calling the given closure.

For example, like every Unicode scalar, the musical fermata symbol ("𝄐") can be represented in UTF-32 as a single code unit. The following code encodes a fermata in UTF-32:

var codeUnit: UTF32.CodeUnit = 0
UTF32.encode("𝄐", into: { codeUnit = $0 })
print(codeUnit)
// Prints "119056"

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 UTF-32 sequence.

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-16 encoded bytes of a string into an array of UnicodeScalar instances. This is a demonstration only---if you need the Unicode scalar representation of a string, use its unicodeScalars view.

// UTF-32 representation of "✨Unicode✨"
let codeUnits: [UTF32.CodeUnit] =
        [10024, 85, 110, 105, 99, 111, 100, 101, 10024]
 
var codeUnitIterator = codeUnits.makeIterator()
var scalars: [UnicodeScalar] = []
var utf32Decoder = UTF32()
Decode: while true {
    switch utf32Decoder.decode(&codeUnitIterator) {
    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