[llvm] Create a CharSetConverter class with both iconv and icu support (PR #74516)

[Hubert Tong via llvm-commits]

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+//===-- CharSet.h - Characters set conversion class ---------------*- C++ -*-=//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+///
+/// \file
+/// This file provides a utility class to convert between different character
+/// set encodings.
+///
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_CHARSET_H
+#define LLVM_SUPPORT_CHARSET_H
+
+#include "llvm/ADT/SmallString.h"
+#include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
+#include "llvm/Config/config.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/ErrorOr.h"
+
+#include <functional>
+#include <string>
+#include <system_error>
+
+namespace llvm {
+
+template <typename T> class SmallVectorImpl;
+
+namespace details {
+class CharSetConverterImplBase {
+public:
+  virtual ~CharSetConverterImplBase() = default;
+
+  /// Converts a string.
+  /// \param[in] Source source string
+  /// \param[out] Result container for converted string
+  /// \return error code in case something went wrong
+  ///
+  /// The following error codes can occur, among others:
+  ///   - std::errc::argument_list_too_long: The result requires more than
+  ///     std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max() bytes.
+  ///   - std::errc::illegal_byte_sequence: The input contains an invalid
+  ///     multibyte sequence.
+  ///   - std::errc::invalid_argument: The input contains an incomplete
+  ///     multibyte sequence.
+  ///
+  /// In case of an error, the result string contains the successfully converted
+  /// part of the input string.
+  ///
+  /// If the destination charset is a stateful character set, the shift state
+  /// will be set to the initial state.
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hubert-reinterpretcast wrote:

It would help to be explicit whether this applies only in the case of an error or always. If "always", then move this above the description of the error behaviour; otherwise, describe the error behaviour using a bulleted list (with this as one of the bullets).

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/74516