diff core/lib/Drupal/Component/Utility/Unicode.php @ 0:4c8ae668cc8c

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author Chris Cannam
date Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:09:58 +0000
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+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\Component\Utility;
+
+/**
+ * Provides Unicode-related conversions and operations.
+ *
+ * @ingroup utility
+ */
+class Unicode {
+
+  /**
+   * Matches Unicode characters that are word boundaries.
+   *
+   * Characters with the following General_category (gc) property values are used
+   * as word boundaries. While this does not fully conform to the Word Boundaries
+   * algorithm described in http://unicode.org/reports/tr29, as PCRE does not
+   * contain the Word_Break property table, this simpler algorithm has to do.
+   * - Cc, Cf, Cn, Co, Cs: Other.
+   * - Pc, Pd, Pe, Pf, Pi, Po, Ps: Punctuation.
+   * - Sc, Sk, Sm, So: Symbols.
+   * - Zl, Zp, Zs: Separators.
+   *
+   * Non-boundary characters include the following General_category (gc) property
+   * values:
+   * - Ll, Lm, Lo, Lt, Lu: Letters.
+   * - Mc, Me, Mn: Combining Marks.
+   * - Nd, Nl, No: Numbers.
+   *
+   * Note that the PCRE property matcher is not used because we wanted to be
+   * compatible with Unicode 5.2.0 regardless of the PCRE version used (and any
+   * bugs in PCRE property tables).
+   *
+   * @see http://unicode.org/glossary
+   */
+  const PREG_CLASS_WORD_BOUNDARY = <<<'EOD'
+\x{0}-\x{2F}\x{3A}-\x{40}\x{5B}-\x{60}\x{7B}-\x{A9}\x{AB}-\x{B1}\x{B4}
+\x{B6}-\x{B8}\x{BB}\x{BF}\x{D7}\x{F7}\x{2C2}-\x{2C5}\x{2D2}-\x{2DF}
+\x{2E5}-\x{2EB}\x{2ED}\x{2EF}-\x{2FF}\x{375}\x{37E}-\x{385}\x{387}\x{3F6}
+\x{482}\x{55A}-\x{55F}\x{589}-\x{58A}\x{5BE}\x{5C0}\x{5C3}\x{5C6}
+\x{5F3}-\x{60F}\x{61B}-\x{61F}\x{66A}-\x{66D}\x{6D4}\x{6DD}\x{6E9}
+\x{6FD}-\x{6FE}\x{700}-\x{70F}\x{7F6}-\x{7F9}\x{830}-\x{83E}
+\x{964}-\x{965}\x{970}\x{9F2}-\x{9F3}\x{9FA}-\x{9FB}\x{AF1}\x{B70}
+\x{BF3}-\x{BFA}\x{C7F}\x{CF1}-\x{CF2}\x{D79}\x{DF4}\x{E3F}\x{E4F}
+\x{E5A}-\x{E5B}\x{F01}-\x{F17}\x{F1A}-\x{F1F}\x{F34}\x{F36}\x{F38}
+\x{F3A}-\x{F3D}\x{F85}\x{FBE}-\x{FC5}\x{FC7}-\x{FD8}\x{104A}-\x{104F}
+\x{109E}-\x{109F}\x{10FB}\x{1360}-\x{1368}\x{1390}-\x{1399}\x{1400}
+\x{166D}-\x{166E}\x{1680}\x{169B}-\x{169C}\x{16EB}-\x{16ED}
+\x{1735}-\x{1736}\x{17B4}-\x{17B5}\x{17D4}-\x{17D6}\x{17D8}-\x{17DB}
+\x{1800}-\x{180A}\x{180E}\x{1940}-\x{1945}\x{19DE}-\x{19FF}
+\x{1A1E}-\x{1A1F}\x{1AA0}-\x{1AA6}\x{1AA8}-\x{1AAD}\x{1B5A}-\x{1B6A}
+\x{1B74}-\x{1B7C}\x{1C3B}-\x{1C3F}\x{1C7E}-\x{1C7F}\x{1CD3}\x{1FBD}
+\x{1FBF}-\x{1FC1}\x{1FCD}-\x{1FCF}\x{1FDD}-\x{1FDF}\x{1FED}-\x{1FEF}
+\x{1FFD}-\x{206F}\x{207A}-\x{207E}\x{208A}-\x{208E}\x{20A0}-\x{20B8}
+\x{2100}-\x{2101}\x{2103}-\x{2106}\x{2108}-\x{2109}\x{2114}
+\x{2116}-\x{2118}\x{211E}-\x{2123}\x{2125}\x{2127}\x{2129}\x{212E}
+\x{213A}-\x{213B}\x{2140}-\x{2144}\x{214A}-\x{214D}\x{214F}
+\x{2190}-\x{244A}\x{249C}-\x{24E9}\x{2500}-\x{2775}\x{2794}-\x{2B59}
+\x{2CE5}-\x{2CEA}\x{2CF9}-\x{2CFC}\x{2CFE}-\x{2CFF}\x{2E00}-\x{2E2E}
+\x{2E30}-\x{3004}\x{3008}-\x{3020}\x{3030}\x{3036}-\x{3037}
+\x{303D}-\x{303F}\x{309B}-\x{309C}\x{30A0}\x{30FB}\x{3190}-\x{3191}
+\x{3196}-\x{319F}\x{31C0}-\x{31E3}\x{3200}-\x{321E}\x{322A}-\x{3250}
+\x{3260}-\x{327F}\x{328A}-\x{32B0}\x{32C0}-\x{33FF}\x{4DC0}-\x{4DFF}
+\x{A490}-\x{A4C6}\x{A4FE}-\x{A4FF}\x{A60D}-\x{A60F}\x{A673}\x{A67E}
+\x{A6F2}-\x{A716}\x{A720}-\x{A721}\x{A789}-\x{A78A}\x{A828}-\x{A82B}
+\x{A836}-\x{A839}\x{A874}-\x{A877}\x{A8CE}-\x{A8CF}\x{A8F8}-\x{A8FA}
+\x{A92E}-\x{A92F}\x{A95F}\x{A9C1}-\x{A9CD}\x{A9DE}-\x{A9DF}
+\x{AA5C}-\x{AA5F}\x{AA77}-\x{AA79}\x{AADE}-\x{AADF}\x{ABEB}
+\x{E000}-\x{F8FF}\x{FB29}\x{FD3E}-\x{FD3F}\x{FDFC}-\x{FDFD}
+\x{FE10}-\x{FE19}\x{FE30}-\x{FE6B}\x{FEFF}-\x{FF0F}\x{FF1A}-\x{FF20}
+\x{FF3B}-\x{FF40}\x{FF5B}-\x{FF65}\x{FFE0}-\x{FFFD}
+EOD;
+
+  /**
+   * Indicates that standard PHP (emulated) unicode support is being used.
+   */
+  const STATUS_SINGLEBYTE = 0;
+
+  /**
+   * Indicates that full unicode support with the PHP mbstring extension is
+   * being used.
+   */
+  const STATUS_MULTIBYTE = 1;
+
+  /**
+   * Indicates an error during check for PHP unicode support.
+   */
+  const STATUS_ERROR = -1;
+
+  /**
+   * Holds the multibyte capabilities of the current environment.
+   *
+   * @var int
+   */
+  protected static $status = 0;
+
+  /**
+   * Gets the current status of unicode/multibyte support on this environment.
+   *
+   * @return int
+   *   The status of multibyte support. It can be one of:
+   *   - \Drupal\Component\Utility\Unicode::STATUS_MULTIBYTE
+   *     Full unicode support using an extension.
+   *   - \Drupal\Component\Utility\Unicode::STATUS_SINGLEBYTE
+   *     Standard PHP (emulated) unicode support.
+   *   - \Drupal\Component\Utility\Unicode::STATUS_ERROR
+   *     An error occurred. No unicode support.
+   */
+  public static function getStatus() {
+    return static::$status;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Sets the value for multibyte support status for the current environment.
+   *
+   * The following status keys are supported:
+   *   - \Drupal\Component\Utility\Unicode::STATUS_MULTIBYTE
+   *     Full unicode support using an extension.
+   *   - \Drupal\Component\Utility\Unicode::STATUS_SINGLEBYTE
+   *     Standard PHP (emulated) unicode support.
+   *   - \Drupal\Component\Utility\Unicode::STATUS_ERROR
+   *     An error occurred. No unicode support.
+   *
+   * @param int $status
+   *   The new status of multibyte support.
+   */
+  public static function setStatus($status) {
+    if (!in_array($status, [static::STATUS_SINGLEBYTE, static::STATUS_MULTIBYTE, static::STATUS_ERROR])) {
+      throw new \InvalidArgumentException('Invalid status value for unicode support.');
+    }
+    static::$status = $status;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Checks for Unicode support in PHP and sets the proper settings if possible.
+   *
+   * Because of the need to be able to handle text in various encodings, we do
+   * not support mbstring function overloading. HTTP input/output conversion
+   * must be disabled for similar reasons.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   A string identifier of a failed multibyte extension check, if any.
+   *   Otherwise, an empty string.
+   */
+  public static function check() {
+    // Check for mbstring extension.
+    if (!function_exists('mb_strlen')) {
+      static::$status = static::STATUS_SINGLEBYTE;
+      return 'mb_strlen';
+    }
+
+    // Check mbstring configuration.
+    if (ini_get('mbstring.func_overload') != 0) {
+      static::$status = static::STATUS_ERROR;
+      return 'mbstring.func_overload';
+    }
+    if (ini_get('mbstring.encoding_translation') != 0) {
+      static::$status = static::STATUS_ERROR;
+      return 'mbstring.encoding_translation';
+    }
+    // mbstring.http_input and mbstring.http_output are deprecated and empty by
+    // default in PHP 5.6.
+    if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.6.0') == -1) {
+      if (ini_get('mbstring.http_input') != 'pass') {
+        static::$status = static::STATUS_ERROR;
+        return 'mbstring.http_input';
+      }
+      if (ini_get('mbstring.http_output') != 'pass') {
+        static::$status = static::STATUS_ERROR;
+        return 'mbstring.http_output';
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Set appropriate configuration.
+    mb_internal_encoding('utf-8');
+    mb_language('uni');
+    static::$status = static::STATUS_MULTIBYTE;
+    return '';
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Decodes UTF byte-order mark (BOM) into the encoding's name.
+   *
+   * @param string $data
+   *   The data possibly containing a BOM. This can be the entire contents of
+   *   a file, or just a fragment containing at least the first five bytes.
+   *
+   * @return string|bool
+   *   The name of the encoding, or FALSE if no byte order mark was present.
+   */
+  public static function encodingFromBOM($data) {
+    static $bomMap = [
+      "\xEF\xBB\xBF" => 'UTF-8',
+      "\xFE\xFF" => 'UTF-16BE',
+      "\xFF\xFE" => 'UTF-16LE',
+      "\x00\x00\xFE\xFF" => 'UTF-32BE',
+      "\xFF\xFE\x00\x00" => 'UTF-32LE',
+      "\x2B\x2F\x76\x38" => 'UTF-7',
+      "\x2B\x2F\x76\x39" => 'UTF-7',
+      "\x2B\x2F\x76\x2B" => 'UTF-7',
+      "\x2B\x2F\x76\x2F" => 'UTF-7',
+      "\x2B\x2F\x76\x38\x2D" => 'UTF-7',
+    ];
+
+    foreach ($bomMap as $bom => $encoding) {
+      if (strpos($data, $bom) === 0) {
+        return $encoding;
+      }
+    }
+    return FALSE;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Converts data to UTF-8.
+   *
+   * Requires the iconv, GNU recode or mbstring PHP extension.
+   *
+   * @param string $data
+   *   The data to be converted.
+   * @param string $encoding
+   *   The encoding that the data is in.
+   *
+   * @return string|bool
+   *   Converted data or FALSE.
+   */
+  public static function convertToUtf8($data, $encoding) {
+    if (function_exists('iconv')) {
+      return @iconv($encoding, 'utf-8', $data);
+    }
+    elseif (function_exists('mb_convert_encoding')) {
+      return @mb_convert_encoding($data, 'utf-8', $encoding);
+    }
+    elseif (function_exists('recode_string')) {
+      return @recode_string($encoding . '..utf-8', $data);
+    }
+    // Cannot convert.
+    return FALSE;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Truncates a UTF-8-encoded string safely to a number of bytes.
+   *
+   * If the end position is in the middle of a UTF-8 sequence, it scans backwards
+   * until the beginning of the byte sequence.
+   *
+   * Use this function whenever you want to chop off a string at an unsure
+   * location. On the other hand, if you're sure that you're splitting on a
+   * character boundary (e.g. after using strpos() or similar), you can safely
+   * use substr() instead.
+   *
+   * @param string $string
+   *   The string to truncate.
+   * @param int $len
+   *   An upper limit on the returned string length.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The truncated string.
+   */
+  public static function truncateBytes($string, $len) {
+    if (strlen($string) <= $len) {
+      return $string;
+    }
+    if ((ord($string[$len]) < 0x80) || (ord($string[$len]) >= 0xC0)) {
+      return substr($string, 0, $len);
+    }
+    // Scan backwards to beginning of the byte sequence.
+    // @todo Make the code more readable in https://www.drupal.org/node/2911497.
+    while (--$len >= 0 && ord($string[$len]) >= 0x80 && ord($string[$len]) < 0xC0) {
+    }
+
+    return substr($string, 0, $len);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Counts the number of characters in a UTF-8 string.
+   *
+   * This is less than or equal to the byte count.
+   *
+   * @param string $text
+   *   The string to run the operation on.
+   *
+   * @return int
+   *   The length of the string.
+   */
+  public static function strlen($text) {
+    if (static::getStatus() == static::STATUS_MULTIBYTE) {
+      return mb_strlen($text);
+    }
+    else {
+      // Do not count UTF-8 continuation bytes.
+      return strlen(preg_replace("/[\x80-\xBF]/", '', $text));
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Converts a UTF-8 string to uppercase.
+   *
+   * @param string $text
+   *   The string to run the operation on.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The string in uppercase.
+   */
+  public static function strtoupper($text) {
+    if (static::getStatus() == static::STATUS_MULTIBYTE) {
+      return mb_strtoupper($text);
+    }
+    else {
+      // Use C-locale for ASCII-only uppercase.
+      $text = strtoupper($text);
+      // Case flip Latin-1 accented letters.
+      $text = preg_replace_callback('/\xC3[\xA0-\xB6\xB8-\xBE]/', '\Drupal\Component\Utility\Unicode::caseFlip', $text);
+      return $text;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Converts a UTF-8 string to lowercase.
+   *
+   * @param string $text
+   *   The string to run the operation on.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The string in lowercase.
+   */
+  public static function strtolower($text) {
+    if (static::getStatus() == static::STATUS_MULTIBYTE) {
+      return mb_strtolower($text);
+    }
+    else {
+      // Use C-locale for ASCII-only lowercase.
+      $text = strtolower($text);
+      // Case flip Latin-1 accented letters.
+      $text = preg_replace_callback('/\xC3[\x80-\x96\x98-\x9E]/', '\Drupal\Component\Utility\Unicode::caseFlip', $text);
+      return $text;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Capitalizes the first character of a UTF-8 string.
+   *
+   * @param string $text
+   *   The string to convert.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The string with the first character as uppercase.
+   */
+  public static function ucfirst($text) {
+    return static::strtoupper(static::substr($text, 0, 1)) . static::substr($text, 1);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Converts the first character of a UTF-8 string to lowercase.
+   *
+   * @param string $text
+   *   The string that will be converted.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The string with the first character as lowercase.
+   *
+   * @ingroup php_wrappers
+   */
+  public static function lcfirst($text) {
+    // Note: no mbstring equivalent!
+    return static::strtolower(static::substr($text, 0, 1)) . static::substr($text, 1);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Capitalizes the first character of each word in a UTF-8 string.
+   *
+   * @param string $text
+   *   The text that will be converted.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The input $text with each word capitalized.
+   *
+   * @ingroup php_wrappers
+   */
+  public static function ucwords($text) {
+    $regex = '/(^|[' . static::PREG_CLASS_WORD_BOUNDARY . '])([^' . static::PREG_CLASS_WORD_BOUNDARY . '])/u';
+    return preg_replace_callback($regex, function (array $matches) {
+      return $matches[1] . Unicode::strtoupper($matches[2]);
+    }, $text);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Cuts off a piece of a string based on character indices and counts.
+   *
+   * Follows the same behavior as PHP's own substr() function. Note that for
+   * cutting off a string at a known character/substring location, the usage of
+   * PHP's normal strpos/substr is safe and much faster.
+   *
+   * @param string $text
+   *   The input string.
+   * @param int $start
+   *   The position at which to start reading.
+   * @param int $length
+   *   The number of characters to read.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The shortened string.
+   */
+  public static function substr($text, $start, $length = NULL) {
+    if (static::getStatus() == static::STATUS_MULTIBYTE) {
+      return $length === NULL ? mb_substr($text, $start) : mb_substr($text, $start, $length);
+    }
+    else {
+      $strlen = strlen($text);
+      // Find the starting byte offset.
+      $bytes = 0;
+      if ($start > 0) {
+        // Count all the characters except continuation bytes from the start
+        // until we have found $start characters or the end of the string.
+        $bytes = -1; $chars = -1;
+        while ($bytes < $strlen - 1 && $chars < $start) {
+          $bytes++;
+          $c = ord($text[$bytes]);
+          if ($c < 0x80 || $c >= 0xC0) {
+            $chars++;
+          }
+        }
+      }
+      elseif ($start < 0) {
+        // Count all the characters except continuation bytes from the end
+        // until we have found abs($start) characters.
+        $start = abs($start);
+        $bytes = $strlen; $chars = 0;
+        while ($bytes > 0 && $chars < $start) {
+          $bytes--;
+          $c = ord($text[$bytes]);
+          if ($c < 0x80 || $c >= 0xC0) {
+            $chars++;
+          }
+        }
+      }
+      $istart = $bytes;
+
+      // Find the ending byte offset.
+      if ($length === NULL) {
+        $iend = $strlen;
+      }
+      elseif ($length > 0) {
+        // Count all the characters except continuation bytes from the starting
+        // index until we have found $length characters or reached the end of
+        // the string, then backtrace one byte.
+        $iend = $istart - 1;
+        $chars = -1;
+        $last_real = FALSE;
+        while ($iend < $strlen - 1 && $chars < $length) {
+          $iend++;
+          $c = ord($text[$iend]);
+          $last_real = FALSE;
+          if ($c < 0x80 || $c >= 0xC0) {
+            $chars++;
+            $last_real = TRUE;
+          }
+        }
+        // Backtrace one byte if the last character we found was a real
+        // character and we don't need it.
+        if ($last_real && $chars >= $length) {
+          $iend--;
+        }
+      }
+      elseif ($length < 0) {
+        // Count all the characters except continuation bytes from the end
+        // until we have found abs($start) characters, then backtrace one byte.
+        $length = abs($length);
+        $iend = $strlen; $chars = 0;
+        while ($iend > 0 && $chars < $length) {
+          $iend--;
+          $c = ord($text[$iend]);
+          if ($c < 0x80 || $c >= 0xC0) {
+            $chars++;
+          }
+        }
+        // Backtrace one byte if we are not at the beginning of the string.
+        if ($iend > 0) {
+          $iend--;
+        }
+      }
+      else {
+        // $length == 0, return an empty string.
+        return '';
+      }
+
+      return substr($text, $istart, max(0, $iend - $istart + 1));
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Truncates a UTF-8-encoded string safely to a number of characters.
+   *
+   * @param string $string
+   *   The string to truncate.
+   * @param int $max_length
+   *   An upper limit on the returned string length, including trailing ellipsis
+   *   if $add_ellipsis is TRUE.
+   * @param bool $wordsafe
+   *   If TRUE, attempt to truncate on a word boundary. Word boundaries are
+   *   spaces, punctuation, and Unicode characters used as word boundaries in
+   *   non-Latin languages; see Unicode::PREG_CLASS_WORD_BOUNDARY for more
+   *   information. If a word boundary cannot be found that would make the length
+   *   of the returned string fall within length guidelines (see parameters
+   *   $max_length and $min_wordsafe_length), word boundaries are ignored.
+   * @param bool $add_ellipsis
+   *   If TRUE, add '...' to the end of the truncated string (defaults to
+   *   FALSE). The string length will still fall within $max_length.
+   * @param int $min_wordsafe_length
+   *   If $wordsafe is TRUE, the minimum acceptable length for truncation (before
+   *   adding an ellipsis, if $add_ellipsis is TRUE). Has no effect if $wordsafe
+   *   is FALSE. This can be used to prevent having a very short resulting string
+   *   that will not be understandable. For instance, if you are truncating the
+   *   string "See myverylongurlexample.com for more information" to a word-safe
+   *   return length of 20, the only available word boundary within 20 characters
+   *   is after the word "See", which wouldn't leave a very informative string. If
+   *   you had set $min_wordsafe_length to 10, though, the function would realise
+   *   that "See" alone is too short, and would then just truncate ignoring word
+   *   boundaries, giving you "See myverylongurl..." (assuming you had set
+   *   $add_ellipses to TRUE).
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The truncated string.
+   */
+  public static function truncate($string, $max_length, $wordsafe = FALSE, $add_ellipsis = FALSE, $min_wordsafe_length = 1) {
+    $ellipsis = '';
+    $max_length = max($max_length, 0);
+    $min_wordsafe_length = max($min_wordsafe_length, 0);
+
+    if (static::strlen($string) <= $max_length) {
+      // No truncation needed, so don't add ellipsis, just return.
+      return $string;
+    }
+
+    if ($add_ellipsis) {
+      // Truncate ellipsis in case $max_length is small.
+      $ellipsis = static::substr('…', 0, $max_length);
+      $max_length -= static::strlen($ellipsis);
+      $max_length = max($max_length, 0);
+    }
+
+    if ($max_length <= $min_wordsafe_length) {
+      // Do not attempt word-safe if lengths are bad.
+      $wordsafe = FALSE;
+    }
+
+    if ($wordsafe) {
+      $matches = [];
+      // Find the last word boundary, if there is one within $min_wordsafe_length
+      // to $max_length characters. preg_match() is always greedy, so it will
+      // find the longest string possible.
+      $found = preg_match('/^(.{' . $min_wordsafe_length . ',' . $max_length . '})[' . Unicode::PREG_CLASS_WORD_BOUNDARY . ']/u', $string, $matches);
+      if ($found) {
+        $string = $matches[1];
+      }
+      else {
+        $string = static::substr($string, 0, $max_length);
+      }
+    }
+    else {
+      $string = static::substr($string, 0, $max_length);
+    }
+
+    if ($add_ellipsis) {
+      // If we're adding an ellipsis, remove any trailing periods.
+      $string = rtrim($string, '.');
+
+      $string .= $ellipsis;
+    }
+
+    return $string;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Compares UTF-8-encoded strings in a binary safe case-insensitive manner.
+   *
+   * @param string $str1
+   *   The first string.
+   * @param string $str2
+   *   The second string.
+   *
+   * @return int
+   *   Returns < 0 if $str1 is less than $str2; > 0 if $str1 is greater than
+   *   $str2, and 0 if they are equal.
+   */
+  public static function strcasecmp($str1, $str2) {
+    return strcmp(static::strtoupper($str1), static::strtoupper($str2));
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Encodes MIME/HTTP headers that contain incorrectly encoded characters.
+   *
+   * For example, Unicode::mimeHeaderEncode('tést.txt') returns
+   * "=?UTF-8?B?dMOpc3QudHh0?=".
+   *
+   * See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt for more information.
+   *
+   * Notes:
+   * - Only encode strings that contain non-ASCII characters.
+   * - We progressively cut-off a chunk with self::truncateBytes(). This ensures
+   *   each chunk starts and ends on a character boundary.
+   * - Using \n as the chunk separator may cause problems on some systems and
+   *   may have to be changed to \r\n or \r.
+   *
+   * @param string $string
+   *   The header to encode.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The mime-encoded header.
+   */
+  public static function mimeHeaderEncode($string) {
+    if (preg_match('/[^\x20-\x7E]/', $string)) {
+      // floor((75 - strlen("=?UTF-8?B??=")) * 0.75);
+      $chunk_size = 47;
+      $len = strlen($string);
+      $output = '';
+      while ($len > 0) {
+        $chunk = static::truncateBytes($string, $chunk_size);
+        $output .= ' =?UTF-8?B?' . base64_encode($chunk) . "?=\n";
+        $c = strlen($chunk);
+        $string = substr($string, $c);
+        $len -= $c;
+      }
+      return trim($output);
+    }
+    return $string;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Decodes MIME/HTTP encoded header values.
+   *
+   * @param string $header
+   *   The header to decode.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The mime-decoded header.
+   */
+  public static function mimeHeaderDecode($header) {
+    $callback = function ($matches) {
+      $data = ($matches[2] == 'B') ? base64_decode($matches[3]) : str_replace('_', ' ', quoted_printable_decode($matches[3]));
+      if (strtolower($matches[1]) != 'utf-8') {
+        $data = static::convertToUtf8($data, $matches[1]);
+      }
+      return $data;
+    };
+    // First step: encoded chunks followed by other encoded chunks (need to collapse whitespace)
+    $header = preg_replace_callback('/=\?([^?]+)\?(Q|B)\?([^?]+|\?(?!=))\?=\s+(?==\?)/', $callback, $header);
+    // Second step: remaining chunks (do not collapse whitespace)
+    return preg_replace_callback('/=\?([^?]+)\?(Q|B)\?([^?]+|\?(?!=))\?=/', $callback, $header);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Flip U+C0-U+DE to U+E0-U+FD and back. Can be used as preg_replace callback.
+   *
+   * @param array $matches
+   *   An array of matches by preg_replace_callback().
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The flipped text.
+   */
+  public static function caseFlip($matches) {
+    return $matches[0][0] . chr(ord($matches[0][1]) ^ 32);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Checks whether a string is valid UTF-8.
+   *
+   * All functions designed to filter input should use drupal_validate_utf8
+   * to ensure they operate on valid UTF-8 strings to prevent bypass of the
+   * filter.
+   *
+   * When text containing an invalid UTF-8 lead byte (0xC0 - 0xFF) is presented
+   * as UTF-8 to Internet Explorer 6, the program may misinterpret subsequent
+   * bytes. When these subsequent bytes are HTML control characters such as
+   * quotes or angle brackets, parts of the text that were deemed safe by filters
+   * end up in locations that are potentially unsafe; An onerror attribute that
+   * is outside of a tag, and thus deemed safe by a filter, can be interpreted
+   * by the browser as if it were inside the tag.
+   *
+   * The function does not return FALSE for strings containing character codes
+   * above U+10FFFF, even though these are prohibited by RFC 3629.
+   *
+   * @param string $text
+   *   The text to check.
+   *
+   * @return bool
+   *   TRUE if the text is valid UTF-8, FALSE if not.
+   */
+  public static function validateUtf8($text) {
+    if (strlen($text) == 0) {
+      return TRUE;
+    }
+    // With the PCRE_UTF8 modifier 'u', preg_match() fails silently on strings
+    // containing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. It does not reject character
+    // codes above U+10FFFF (represented by 4 or more octets), though.
+    return (preg_match('/^./us', $text) == 1);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Finds the position of the first occurrence of a string in another string.
+   *
+   * @param string $haystack
+   *   The string to search in.
+   * @param string $needle
+   *   The string to find in $haystack.
+   * @param int $offset
+   *   If specified, start the search at this number of characters from the
+   *   beginning (default 0).
+   *
+   * @return int|false
+   *   The position where $needle occurs in $haystack, always relative to the
+   *   beginning (independent of $offset), or FALSE if not found. Note that
+   *   a return value of 0 is not the same as FALSE.
+   */
+  public static function strpos($haystack, $needle, $offset = 0) {
+    if (static::getStatus() == static::STATUS_MULTIBYTE) {
+      return mb_strpos($haystack, $needle, $offset);
+    }
+    else {
+      // Remove Unicode continuation characters, to be compatible with
+      // Unicode::strlen() and Unicode::substr().
+      $haystack = preg_replace("/[\x80-\xBF]/", '', $haystack);
+      $needle = preg_replace("/[\x80-\xBF]/", '', $needle);
+      return strpos($haystack, $needle, $offset);
+    }
+  }
+
+}