.. index:: pair: class; EE::Utf
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template class EE::Utf
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Utility class providing generic functions for UTF conversions.

:ref:`EE::Utf <doxid-class_e_e_1_1_utf>` is a low-level, generic interface for counting, iterating, encoding and decoding Unicode characters and strings. It is able to handle ANSI, wide, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings.

EE::Utf<X> functions are all static, these classes are not meant to be instanciated. All the functions are template, so that you can use any character / string type for a given encoding.

It has 3 specializations:

* :ref:`EE::Utf\<8> <doxid-class_e_e_1_1_utf_3_018_01_4>` (typedef'd to :ref:`EE::Utf8 <doxid-namespace_e_e_1a7340bd7336730c1268f59f92067573d8>`)

* :ref:`EE::Utf\<16> <doxid-class_e_e_1_1_utf_3_0116_01_4>` (typedef'd to :ref:`EE::Utf16 <doxid-namespace_e_e_1a39aacac5df8deb6260715f4bccd65e04>`)

* :ref:`EE::Utf\<32> <doxid-class_e_e_1_1_utf_3_0132_01_4>` (typedef'd to :ref:`EE::Utf32 <doxid-namespace_e_e_1a3320f55e0aed4078221c42ee227f1bbc>`)