Class: Unicode16String

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • initialization
  • reading
• Instance protocol
  • binary storage
  • conversion
  • printing & storing

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Collection
      |
      +--SequenceableCollection
         |
         +--ArrayedCollection
            |
            +--UninterpretedBytes
               |
               +--ByteArray
                  |
                  +--CharacterArray
                     |
                     +--TwoByteString
                        |
                        +--Unicode16String

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

Collections-Text

Version:

rev: 1.12 date: 2008/11/06 11:00:19

user: stefan

file: Unicode16String.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Description:

Represents 16-bit (2-byte) Unicode strings.

Class protocol:

 initialize

initialize the class - private

 readFrom: aStreamOrString onError: exceptionBlock

read & return the next String from the (character-)stream aStream;
skipping all whitespace first; return the value of exceptionBlock,
if no string can be read. The sequence of characters as read from the
stream must be one as stored via storeOn: or storeString.

Instance protocol:

 storeBinaryElementsOn: stream

 asSymbolIfInterned

If a symbol with the receivers characters is already known, return it. Otherwise, return nil.
Because ST/X does not support non-8-bit symbols, this method
has been redefined to only return a symbol, if the receiver does NOT contain
any non-8 bit characters.

 asUnicode16String

as the receiver already is a unicode-16 string, return it

 asUnicodeString

as the receiver already is a unicode string, return it

 printOn: aStream

print the receiver on aStream.
Let aStream decide how to represent this, wether utf8, ucs16, ...

 storeOn: aStream

put the storeString of myself on aStream

 storeString

return a String for storing myself