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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andreas Kling
503453eb9c AK: Remove UTF-16 mode from StringBuilder
Remove the UTF-16 storage mode and make StringBuilder solely build
UTF-8 strings again. The remaining UTF-16 adoption path now goes
through Utf16StringBuilder, keeping the direct-adoption optimization
with the type that owns UTF-16 construction.
2026-06-22 16:10:40 +02:00
Andreas Kling
a8193e7572 AK+UI: Stop using StringBuilder UTF-16 mode
Move the remaining call sites that constructed StringBuilder in UTF-16
mode over to Utf16StringBuilder or explicit UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion.
Teach FormatBuilder to target Utf16StringBuilder directly so formatted
Utf16String construction no longer needs StringBuilder's UTF-16 mode.

Update the Utf16String tests to cover Utf16StringBuilder adoption and
clear behavior directly.
2026-06-22 16:10:40 +02:00
Andreas Kling
488006d276 AK: Add Utf16StringBuilder
Add a purpose-built builder for constructing Utf16String values.
It keeps ASCII storage while possible, widens to UTF-16 when needed,
and can hand outline storage to Utf16StringData for direct adoption.

Add AK coverage for ASCII strings, UTF-16 widening, code points,
trimming, and long string construction.
2026-06-22 16:10:40 +02:00
Timothy Flynn
d3d96ce399 AK: Remove Utf32View and surrounding support
It is now unused, so let's just remove it.
2026-06-06 18:42:18 +02:00
Andreas Kling
b50ff02da4 AK: Skip ASCII validation in {Utf16String,String}::number() 2025-10-05 11:24:46 +02:00
Andreas Kling
1c04b6da3b AK: Make Utf16String::number(Integral) fast like String::number()
Move the fast String::number() implementation to a shareable place
so both string types can make use of it.
2025-10-05 11:24:46 +02:00
Timothy Flynn
8472e469f4 AK+LibJS+LibWeb: Recognize that our UTF-16 string is actually WTF-16
For the web, we allow a wobbly UTF-16 encoding (i.e. lonely surrogates
are permitted). Only in a few exceptional cases do we strictly require
valid UTF-16. As such, our `validate(AllowLonelySurrogates::Yes)` calls
will always succeed. It's a wasted effort to ever make such a check.

This patch eliminates such invocations. The validation methods will now
only check for strict UTF-16, and are only invoked when needed.
2025-08-13 09:56:13 -04:00
Timothy Flynn
36c7302178 AK: Optimize the UTF-16 StringBuilder for ASCII storage
When we build a UTF-16 string, we currently always switch to the UTF-16
storage mode inside StringBuilder. Then when it comes time to create the
string, we switch the storage to ASCII if possible (by shifting the
underlying bytes up).

Instead, let's start out with ASCII storage and then switch to UTF-16
storage once we see a non-ASCII code point. For most strings, this will
avoid allocating 2x the memory, and avoids many ASCII validation calls.
2025-08-13 09:56:13 -04:00
Timothy Flynn
13ed6aba71 AK+LibIPC: Implement an encoder/decoder for UTF-16 strings 2025-08-02 10:10:14 -07:00
Timothy Flynn
1375e6bf39 AK+LibJS+LibWeb: Use simdutf to create well-formed strings 2025-07-26 00:40:06 +02:00
Timothy Flynn
df77ae1920 AK: Implement creating a UTF-16 string from a repeated code point 2025-07-25 18:16:22 +02:00
Timothy Flynn
f53389bab1 AK: Add a couple of Utf16String factories
* Utf16String::from_utf8_with_replacement_character
* Utf16String::from_code_point
2025-07-24 19:00:20 +02:00
Timothy Flynn
2803d66d87 AK: Support UTF-16 string formatting
The underlying storage used during string formatting is StringBuilder.
To support UTF-16 strings, this patch allows callers to specify a mode
during StringBuilder construction. The default mode is UTF-8, for which
StringBuilder remains unchanged.

In UTF-16 mode, we treat the StringBuilder's internal ByteBuffer as a
series of u16 code units. Appending a single character will append 2
bytes for that character (cast to a char16_t). Appending a StringView
will transcode the string to UTF-16.

Utf16String also gains the same memory optimization that we added for
String, where we hand-off the underlying buffer to Utf16String to avoid
having to re-allocate.

In the future, we may want to further optimize for ASCII strings. For
example, we could defer committing to the u16-esque storage until we
see a non-ASCII code point.
2025-07-18 12:45:38 -04:00
Timothy Flynn
fe676585f5 AK: Add a UTF-16 string with optimized short- and ASCII-string storage
This is a strictly UTF-16 string with some optimizations for ASCII.

* If created from a short UTF-8 or UTF-16 string that is also ASCII,
  then the string is stored in an inlined byte buffer.

* If created with a long UTF-8 or UTF-16 string that is also ASCII,
  then the string is stored in an outlined char buffer.

* If created with a short or long UTF-8 or UTF-16 string that is not
  ASCII, then the string is stored in an outlined char16 buffer.

We do not store short non-ASCII text in the inlined buffer to avoid
confusion with operations such as `length_in_code_units` and
`code_unit_at`. For example, "😀" would be stored as 4 UTF-8 bytes
in short string form. But we still want `length_in_code_units` to
be 2, and `code_unit_at(0)` to be 0xD83D.
2025-07-18 12:45:38 -04:00