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-rw-r--r--payloads/libpayload/include/string.h7
-rw-r--r--payloads/libpayload/libc/string.c19
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/payloads/libpayload/include/string.h b/payloads/libpayload/include/string.h
index 952261fa15..ca5d5131e2 100644
--- a/payloads/libpayload/include/string.h
+++ b/payloads/libpayload/include/string.h
@@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ char *strerror(int errnum);
/** @} */
/**
+ * @defgroup string Unicode functions
+ * @{
+ */
+char *utf16le_to_ascii(uint16_t *utf16_string, int maxlen);
+/** @} */
+
+/**
* @defgroup string OpenBSD based safe string functions
* @{
*/
diff --git a/payloads/libpayload/libc/string.c b/payloads/libpayload/libc/string.c
index 71dd1a6d1b..99857493c0 100644
--- a/payloads/libpayload/libc/string.c
+++ b/payloads/libpayload/libc/string.c
@@ -653,3 +653,22 @@ char *strerror(int errnum)
snprintf(errstr, sizeof(errstr), "Unknown error %d", errnum);
return errstr;
}
+
+/*
+ * Simple routine to convert UTF-16 to ASCII, giving up with ? if too high.
+ * A single code point may convert to ?? if not in the BMP.
+ * @param utf16_string A string encoded in UTF-16LE
+ * @param maxlen Maximum possible length of the string in code points
+ * @return Newly allocated ASCII string
+ */
+char *utf16le_to_ascii(uint16_t *utf16_string, int maxlen)
+{
+ char *ascii_string = xmalloc(maxlen + 1); /* +1 for trailing \0 */
+ ascii_string[maxlen] = '\0';
+ int i;
+ for (i = 0; i < maxlen; i++) {
+ uint16_t wchar = utf16_string[i];
+ ascii_string[i] = wchar > 0x7f ? '?' : (char)wchar;
+ }
+ return ascii_string;
+}