utf8: add function to detect a missing UTF-16/32 BOM

If the endianness is not defined in the encoding name, then let's
be strict and require a BOM to avoid any encoding confusion. The
is_missing_required_utf_bom() function returns true if a required BOM
is missing.

The Unicode standard instructs to assume big-endian if there in no BOM
for UTF-16/32 [1][2]. However, the W3C/WHATWG encoding standard used
in HTML5 recommends to assume little-endian to "deal with deployed
content" [3]. Strictly requiring a BOM seems to be the safest option
for content in Git.

This function is used in a subsequent commit.

[1] http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#gen6
[2] http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/ch03.pdf
     Section 3.10, D98, page 132
[3] https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#utf-16le

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utf8.c b/utf8.c
index 83af3a9f6b..25d366d6b3 100644
--- a/utf8.c
+++ b/utf8.c
@@ -586,6 +586,19 @@ int has_prohibited_utf_bom(const char *enc, const char *data, size_t len)
 	);
 }
 
+int is_missing_required_utf_bom(const char *enc, const char *data, size_t len)
+{
+	return (
+	   (same_utf_encoding(enc, "UTF-16")) &&
+	   !(has_bom_prefix(data, len, utf16_be_bom, sizeof(utf16_be_bom)) ||
+	     has_bom_prefix(data, len, utf16_le_bom, sizeof(utf16_le_bom)))
+	) || (
+	   (same_utf_encoding(enc, "UTF-32")) &&
+	   !(has_bom_prefix(data, len, utf32_be_bom, sizeof(utf32_be_bom)) ||
+	     has_bom_prefix(data, len, utf32_le_bom, sizeof(utf32_le_bom)))
+	);
+}
+
 /*
  * Returns first character length in bytes for multi-byte `text` according to
  * `encoding`.