gecko-dev/intl/chardet/public/nsIDocCharset.idl
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#include "nsISupports.idl"
/**
* The nsIDocCharset interface allows the user to view,
* hint, and set which converter is used to read the document's
* data.
*
* <P>Inside Mozilla all text is encoded as Unicode. By standardizing
* on Unicode every piece of code that handles characters no longer
* needs to:
*
* Have access to a character encoding parameter.
* Ask is the data stateful?
* Ask is the data single byte?
* Ask is the data multi-byte?
* If multi-byte: have access to a routine that can
* determine how many bytes in the current character.
*
* When the document is read in a converter is used to convert
* the document's data to Unicode.
*
* nsIDocCharset provides the ability to:
*
* See what converter was used when inputting the documents
* data.
*
* Override the character set for documents where the specified
* fallback, or auto-detected character set is incorrect
*
*/
[scriptable, uuid(9c18bb4e-1dd1-11b2-bf91-9cc82c275823)]
interface nsIDocCharset : nsISupports
{
/**
* Get/sets the encoding (converter) used to read the
* document. Get returns the encoding used. Set forces
* (overrides) the encoding. After forcing the charset the
* embedding application will need to cause the data to be
* reparsed in order to update the DOM / display.
*
* A force also sets the fallback encoding for this frame.
*/
attribute string charset;
};