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+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef FLATBUFFERS_UTIL_H_
+#define FLATBUFFERS_UTIL_H_
+
+#include "flatbuffers/base.h"
+
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#ifndef FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+#  include <sstream>
+#else  // FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+#  include <float.h>
+#  include <stdio.h>
+#endif  // FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+
+#include <iomanip>
+#include <string>
+
+namespace flatbuffers {
+
+// @locale-independent functions for ASCII characters set.
+
+// Fast checking that character lies in closed range: [a <= x <= b]
+// using one compare (conditional branch) operator.
+inline bool check_ascii_range(char x, char a, char b) {
+  FLATBUFFERS_ASSERT(a <= b);
+  // (Hacker's Delight): `a <= x <= b` <=> `(x-a) <={u} (b-a)`.
+  // The x, a, b will be promoted to int and subtracted without overflow.
+  return static_cast<unsigned int>(x - a) <= static_cast<unsigned int>(b - a);
+}
+
+// Case-insensitive isalpha
+inline bool is_alpha(char c) {
+  // ASCII only: alpha to upper case => reset bit 0x20 (~0x20 = 0xDF).
+  return check_ascii_range(c & 0xDF, 'a' & 0xDF, 'z' & 0xDF);
+}
+
+// Check (case-insensitive) that `c` is equal to alpha.
+inline bool is_alpha_char(char c, char alpha) {
+  FLATBUFFERS_ASSERT(is_alpha(alpha));
+  // ASCII only: alpha to upper case => reset bit 0x20 (~0x20 = 0xDF).
+  return ((c & 0xDF) == (alpha & 0xDF));
+}
+
+// https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/byte/isxdigit
+// isdigit and isxdigit are the only standard narrow character classification
+// functions that are not affected by the currently installed C locale. although
+// some implementations (e.g. Microsoft in 1252 codepage) may classify
+// additional single-byte characters as digits.
+inline bool is_digit(char c) { return check_ascii_range(c, '0', '9'); }
+
+inline bool is_xdigit(char c) {
+  // Replace by look-up table.
+  return is_digit(c) || check_ascii_range(c & 0xDF, 'a' & 0xDF, 'f' & 0xDF);
+}
+
+// Case-insensitive isalnum
+inline bool is_alnum(char c) { return is_alpha(c) || is_digit(c); }
+
+// @end-locale-independent functions for ASCII character set
+
+#ifdef FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+template<typename T> size_t IntToDigitCount(T t) {
+  size_t digit_count = 0;
+  // Count the sign for negative numbers
+  if (t < 0) digit_count++;
+  // Count a single 0 left of the dot for fractional numbers
+  if (-1 < t && t < 1) digit_count++;
+  // Count digits until fractional part
+  T eps = std::numeric_limits<float>::epsilon();
+  while (t <= (-1 + eps) || (1 - eps) <= t) {
+    t /= 10;
+    digit_count++;
+  }
+  return digit_count;
+}
+
+template<typename T> size_t NumToStringWidth(T t, int precision = 0) {
+  size_t string_width = IntToDigitCount(t);
+  // Count the dot for floating point numbers
+  if (precision) string_width += (precision + 1);
+  return string_width;
+}
+
+template<typename T>
+std::string NumToStringImplWrapper(T t, const char *fmt, int precision = 0) {
+  size_t string_width = NumToStringWidth(t, precision);
+  std::string s(string_width, 0x00);
+  // Allow snprintf to use std::string trailing null to detect buffer overflow
+  snprintf(const_cast<char *>(s.data()), (s.size() + 1), fmt, string_width, t);
+  return s;
+}
+#endif  // FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+
+// Convert an integer or floating point value to a string.
+// In contrast to std::stringstream, "char" values are
+// converted to a string of digits, and we don't use scientific notation.
+template<typename T> std::string NumToString(T t) {
+  // clang-format off
+
+  #ifndef FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+    std::stringstream ss;
+    ss << t;
+    return ss.str();
+  #else // FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+    auto v = static_cast<long long>(t);
+    return NumToStringImplWrapper(v, "%.*lld");
+  #endif // FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+  // clang-format on
+}
+// Avoid char types used as character data.
+template<> inline std::string NumToString<signed char>(signed char t) {
+  return NumToString(static_cast<int>(t));
+}
+template<> inline std::string NumToString<unsigned char>(unsigned char t) {
+  return NumToString(static_cast<int>(t));
+}
+template<> inline std::string NumToString<char>(char t) {
+  return NumToString(static_cast<int>(t));
+}
+#if defined(FLATBUFFERS_CPP98_STL)
+template<> inline std::string NumToString<long long>(long long t) {
+  char buf[21];  // (log((1 << 63) - 1) / log(10)) + 2
+  snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%lld", t);
+  return std::string(buf);
+}
+
+template<>
+inline std::string NumToString<unsigned long long>(unsigned long long t) {
+  char buf[22];  // (log((1 << 63) - 1) / log(10)) + 1
+  snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%llu", t);
+  return std::string(buf);
+}
+#endif  // defined(FLATBUFFERS_CPP98_STL)
+
+// Special versions for floats/doubles.
+template<typename T> std::string FloatToString(T t, int precision) {
+  // clang-format off
+
+  #ifndef FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+    // to_string() prints different numbers of digits for floats depending on
+    // platform and isn't available on Android, so we use stringstream
+    std::stringstream ss;
+    // Use std::fixed to suppress scientific notation.
+    ss << std::fixed;
+    // Default precision is 6, we want that to be higher for doubles.
+    ss << std::setprecision(precision);
+    ss << t;
+    auto s = ss.str();
+  #else // FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+    auto v = static_cast<double>(t);
+    auto s = NumToStringImplWrapper(v, "%0.*f", precision);
+  #endif // FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+  // clang-format on
+  // Sadly, std::fixed turns "1" into "1.00000", so here we undo that.
+  auto p = s.find_last_not_of('0');
+  if (p != std::string::npos) {
+    // Strip trailing zeroes. If it is a whole number, keep one zero.
+    s.resize(p + (s[p] == '.' ? 2 : 1));
+  }
+  return s;
+}
+
+template<> inline std::string NumToString<double>(double t) {
+  return FloatToString(t, 12);
+}
+template<> inline std::string NumToString<float>(float t) {
+  return FloatToString(t, 6);
+}
+
+// Convert an integer value to a hexadecimal string.
+// The returned string length is always xdigits long, prefixed by 0 digits.
+// For example, IntToStringHex(0x23, 8) returns the string "00000023".
+inline std::string IntToStringHex(int i, int xdigits) {
+  FLATBUFFERS_ASSERT(i >= 0);
+  // clang-format off
+
+  #ifndef FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+    std::stringstream ss;
+    ss << std::setw(xdigits) << std::setfill('0') << std::hex << std::uppercase
+       << i;
+    return ss.str();
+  #else // FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+    return NumToStringImplWrapper(i, "%.*X", xdigits);
+  #endif // FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+  // clang-format on
+}
+
+// clang-format off
+// Use locale independent functions {strtod_l, strtof_l, strtoll_l, strtoull_l}.
+#if defined(FLATBUFFERS_LOCALE_INDEPENDENT) && (FLATBUFFERS_LOCALE_INDEPENDENT > 0)
+  class ClassicLocale {
+    #ifdef _MSC_VER
+      typedef _locale_t locale_type;
+    #else
+      typedef locale_t locale_type;  // POSIX.1-2008 locale_t type
+    #endif
+    ClassicLocale();
+    ~ClassicLocale();
+    locale_type locale_;
+    static ClassicLocale instance_;
+  public:
+    static locale_type Get() { return instance_.locale_; }
+  };
+
+  #ifdef _MSC_VER
+    #define __strtoull_impl(s, pe, b) _strtoui64_l(s, pe, b, ClassicLocale::Get())
+    #define __strtoll_impl(s, pe, b) _strtoi64_l(s, pe, b, ClassicLocale::Get())
+    #define __strtod_impl(s, pe) _strtod_l(s, pe, ClassicLocale::Get())
+    #define __strtof_impl(s, pe) _strtof_l(s, pe, ClassicLocale::Get())
+  #else
+    #define __strtoull_impl(s, pe, b) strtoull_l(s, pe, b, ClassicLocale::Get())
+    #define __strtoll_impl(s, pe, b) strtoll_l(s, pe, b, ClassicLocale::Get())
+    #define __strtod_impl(s, pe) strtod_l(s, pe, ClassicLocale::Get())
+    #define __strtof_impl(s, pe) strtof_l(s, pe, ClassicLocale::Get())
+  #endif
+#else
+  #define __strtod_impl(s, pe) strtod(s, pe)
+  #define __strtof_impl(s, pe) static_cast<float>(strtod(s, pe))
+  #ifdef _MSC_VER
+    #define __strtoull_impl(s, pe, b) _strtoui64(s, pe, b)
+    #define __strtoll_impl(s, pe, b) _strtoi64(s, pe, b)
+  #else
+    #define __strtoull_impl(s, pe, b) strtoull(s, pe, b)
+    #define __strtoll_impl(s, pe, b) strtoll(s, pe, b)
+  #endif
+#endif
+
+inline void strtoval_impl(int64_t *val, const char *str, char **endptr,
+                                 int base) {
+    *val = __strtoll_impl(str, endptr, base);
+}
+
+inline void strtoval_impl(uint64_t *val, const char *str, char **endptr,
+                                 int base) {
+  *val = __strtoull_impl(str, endptr, base);
+}
+
+inline void strtoval_impl(double *val, const char *str, char **endptr) {
+  *val = __strtod_impl(str, endptr);
+}
+
+// UBSAN: double to float is safe if numeric_limits<float>::is_iec559 is true.
+__supress_ubsan__("float-cast-overflow")
+inline void strtoval_impl(float *val, const char *str, char **endptr) {
+  *val = __strtof_impl(str, endptr);
+}
+#undef __strtoull_impl
+#undef __strtoll_impl
+#undef __strtod_impl
+#undef __strtof_impl
+// clang-format on
+
+// Adaptor for strtoull()/strtoll().
+// Flatbuffers accepts numbers with any count of leading zeros (-009 is -9),
+// while strtoll with base=0 interprets first leading zero as octal prefix.
+// In future, it is possible to add prefixed 0b0101.
+// 1) Checks errno code for overflow condition (out of range).
+// 2) If base <= 0, function try to detect base of number by prefix.
+//
+// Return value (like strtoull and strtoll, but reject partial result):
+// - If successful, an integer value corresponding to the str is returned.
+// - If full string conversion can't be performed, 0 is returned.
+// - If the converted value falls out of range of corresponding return type, a
+// range error occurs. In this case value MAX(T)/MIN(T) is returned.
+template<typename T>
+inline bool StringToIntegerImpl(T *val, const char *const str,
+                                const int base = 0,
+                                const bool check_errno = true) {
+  // T is int64_t or uint64_T
+  FLATBUFFERS_ASSERT(str);
+  if (base <= 0) {
+    auto s = str;
+    while (*s && !is_digit(*s)) s++;
+    if (s[0] == '0' && is_alpha_char(s[1], 'X'))
+      return StringToIntegerImpl(val, str, 16, check_errno);
+    // if a prefix not match, try base=10
+    return StringToIntegerImpl(val, str, 10, check_errno);
+  } else {
+    if (check_errno) errno = 0;  // clear thread-local errno
+    auto endptr = str;
+    strtoval_impl(val, str, const_cast<char **>(&endptr), base);
+    if ((*endptr != '\0') || (endptr == str)) {
+      *val = 0;      // erase partial result
+      return false;  // invalid string
+    }
+    // errno is out-of-range, return MAX/MIN
+    if (check_errno && errno) return false;
+    return true;
+  }
+}
+
+template<typename T>
+inline bool StringToFloatImpl(T *val, const char *const str) {
+  // Type T must be either float or double.
+  FLATBUFFERS_ASSERT(str && val);
+  auto end = str;
+  strtoval_impl(val, str, const_cast<char **>(&end));
+  auto done = (end != str) && (*end == '\0');
+  if (!done) *val = 0;  // erase partial result
+  return done;
+}
+
+// Convert a string to an instance of T.
+// Return value (matched with StringToInteger64Impl and strtod):
+// - If successful, a numeric value corresponding to the str is returned.
+// - If full string conversion can't be performed, 0 is returned.
+// - If the converted value falls out of range of corresponding return type, a
+// range error occurs. In this case value MAX(T)/MIN(T) is returned.
+template<typename T> inline bool StringToNumber(const char *s, T *val) {
+  FLATBUFFERS_ASSERT(s && val);
+  int64_t i64;
+  // The errno check isn't needed, will return MAX/MIN on overflow.
+  if (StringToIntegerImpl(&i64, s, 0, false)) {
+    const int64_t max = (flatbuffers::numeric_limits<T>::max)();
+    const int64_t min = flatbuffers::numeric_limits<T>::lowest();
+    if (i64 > max) {
+      *val = static_cast<T>(max);
+      return false;
+    }
+    if (i64 < min) {
+      // For unsigned types return max to distinguish from
+      // "no conversion can be performed" when 0 is returned.
+      *val = static_cast<T>(flatbuffers::is_unsigned<T>::value ? max : min);
+      return false;
+    }
+    *val = static_cast<T>(i64);
+    return true;
+  }
+  *val = 0;
+  return false;
+}
+
+template<> inline bool StringToNumber<int64_t>(const char *str, int64_t *val) {
+  return StringToIntegerImpl(val, str);
+}
+
+template<>
+inline bool StringToNumber<uint64_t>(const char *str, uint64_t *val) {
+  if (!StringToIntegerImpl(val, str)) return false;
+  // The strtoull accepts negative numbers:
+  // If the minus sign was part of the input sequence, the numeric value
+  // calculated from the sequence of digits is negated as if by unary minus
+  // in the result type, which applies unsigned integer wraparound rules.
+  // Fix this behaviour (except -0).
+  if (*val) {
+    auto s = str;
+    while (*s && !is_digit(*s)) s++;
+    s = (s > str) ? (s - 1) : s;  // step back to one symbol
+    if (*s == '-') {
+      // For unsigned types return the max to distinguish from
+      // "no conversion can be performed".
+      *val = (flatbuffers::numeric_limits<uint64_t>::max)();
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
+template<> inline bool StringToNumber(const char *s, float *val) {
+  return StringToFloatImpl(val, s);
+}
+
+template<> inline bool StringToNumber(const char *s, double *val) {
+  return StringToFloatImpl(val, s);
+}
+
+inline int64_t StringToInt(const char *s, int base = 10) {
+  int64_t val;
+  return StringToIntegerImpl(&val, s, base) ? val : 0;
+}
+
+inline uint64_t StringToUInt(const char *s, int base = 10) {
+  uint64_t val;
+  return StringToIntegerImpl(&val, s, base) ? val : 0;
+}
+
+typedef bool (*LoadFileFunction)(const char *filename, bool binary,
+                                 std::string *dest);
+typedef bool (*FileExistsFunction)(const char *filename);
+
+LoadFileFunction SetLoadFileFunction(LoadFileFunction load_file_function);
+
+FileExistsFunction SetFileExistsFunction(
+    FileExistsFunction file_exists_function);
+
+// Check if file "name" exists.
+bool FileExists(const char *name);
+
+// Check if "name" exists and it is also a directory.
+bool DirExists(const char *name);
+
+// Load file "name" into "buf" returning true if successful
+// false otherwise.  If "binary" is false data is read
+// using ifstream's text mode, otherwise data is read with
+// no transcoding.
+bool LoadFile(const char *name, bool binary, std::string *buf);
+
+// Save data "buf" of length "len" bytes into a file
+// "name" returning true if successful, false otherwise.
+// If "binary" is false data is written using ifstream's
+// text mode, otherwise data is written with no
+// transcoding.
+bool SaveFile(const char *name, const char *buf, size_t len, bool binary);
+
+// Save data "buf" into file "name" returning true if
+// successful, false otherwise.  If "binary" is false
+// data is written using ifstream's text mode, otherwise
+// data is written with no transcoding.
+inline bool SaveFile(const char *name, const std::string &buf, bool binary) {
+  return SaveFile(name, buf.c_str(), buf.size(), binary);
+}
+
+// Functionality for minimalistic portable path handling.
+
+// The functions below behave correctly regardless of whether posix ('/') or
+// Windows ('/' or '\\') separators are used.
+
+// Any new separators inserted are always posix.
+FLATBUFFERS_CONSTEXPR char kPathSeparator = '/';
+
+// Returns the path with the extension, if any, removed.
+std::string StripExtension(const std::string &filepath);
+
+// Returns the extension, if any.
+std::string GetExtension(const std::string &filepath);
+
+// Return the last component of the path, after the last separator.
+std::string StripPath(const std::string &filepath);
+
+// Strip the last component of the path + separator.
+std::string StripFileName(const std::string &filepath);
+
+// Concatenates a path with a filename, regardless of wether the path
+// ends in a separator or not.
+std::string ConCatPathFileName(const std::string &path,
+                               const std::string &filename);
+
+// Replaces any '\\' separators with '/'
+std::string PosixPath(const char *path);
+
+// This function ensure a directory exists, by recursively
+// creating dirs for any parts of the path that don't exist yet.
+void EnsureDirExists(const std::string &filepath);
+
+// Obtains the absolute path from any other path.
+// Returns the input path if the absolute path couldn't be resolved.
+std::string AbsolutePath(const std::string &filepath);
+
+// To and from UTF-8 unicode conversion functions
+
+// Convert a unicode code point into a UTF-8 representation by appending it
+// to a string. Returns the number of bytes generated.
+inline int ToUTF8(uint32_t ucc, std::string *out) {
+  FLATBUFFERS_ASSERT(!(ucc & 0x80000000));  // Top bit can't be set.
+  // 6 possible encodings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
+  for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
+    // Max bits this encoding can represent.
+    uint32_t max_bits = 6 + i * 5 + static_cast<int>(!i);
+    if (ucc < (1u << max_bits)) {  // does it fit?
+      // Remaining bits not encoded in the first byte, store 6 bits each
+      uint32_t remain_bits = i * 6;
+      // Store first byte:
+      (*out) += static_cast<char>((0xFE << (max_bits - remain_bits)) |
+                                  (ucc >> remain_bits));
+      // Store remaining bytes:
+      for (int j = i - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
+        (*out) += static_cast<char>(((ucc >> (j * 6)) & 0x3F) | 0x80);
+      }
+      return i + 1;  // Return the number of bytes added.
+    }
+  }
+  FLATBUFFERS_ASSERT(0);  // Impossible to arrive here.
+  return -1;
+}
+
+// Converts whatever prefix of the incoming string corresponds to a valid
+// UTF-8 sequence into a unicode code. The incoming pointer will have been
+// advanced past all bytes parsed.
+// returns -1 upon corrupt UTF-8 encoding (ignore the incoming pointer in
+// this case).
+inline int FromUTF8(const char **in) {
+  int len = 0;
+  // Count leading 1 bits.
+  for (int mask = 0x80; mask >= 0x04; mask >>= 1) {
+    if (**in & mask) {
+      len++;
+    } else {
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+  if ((static_cast<unsigned char>(**in) << len) & 0x80)
+    return -1;  // Bit after leading 1's must be 0.
+  if (!len) return *(*in)++;
+  // UTF-8 encoded values with a length are between 2 and 4 bytes.
+  if (len < 2 || len > 4) { return -1; }
+  // Grab initial bits of the code.
+  int ucc = *(*in)++ & ((1 << (7 - len)) - 1);
+  for (int i = 0; i < len - 1; i++) {
+    if ((**in & 0xC0) != 0x80) return -1;  // Upper bits must 1 0.
+    ucc <<= 6;
+    ucc |= *(*in)++ & 0x3F;  // Grab 6 more bits of the code.
+  }
+  // UTF-8 cannot encode values between 0xD800 and 0xDFFF (reserved for
+  // UTF-16 surrogate pairs).
+  if (ucc >= 0xD800 && ucc <= 0xDFFF) { return -1; }
+  // UTF-8 must represent code points in their shortest possible encoding.
+  switch (len) {
+    case 2:
+      // Two bytes of UTF-8 can represent code points from U+0080 to U+07FF.
+      if (ucc < 0x0080 || ucc > 0x07FF) { return -1; }
+      break;
+    case 3:
+      // Three bytes of UTF-8 can represent code points from U+0800 to U+FFFF.
+      if (ucc < 0x0800 || ucc > 0xFFFF) { return -1; }
+      break;
+    case 4:
+      // Four bytes of UTF-8 can represent code points from U+10000 to U+10FFFF.
+      if (ucc < 0x10000 || ucc > 0x10FFFF) { return -1; }
+      break;
+  }
+  return ucc;
+}
+
+#ifndef FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+// Wraps a string to a maximum length, inserting new lines where necessary. Any
+// existing whitespace will be collapsed down to a single space. A prefix or
+// suffix can be provided, which will be inserted before or after a wrapped
+// line, respectively.
+inline std::string WordWrap(const std::string in, size_t max_length,
+                            const std::string wrapped_line_prefix,
+                            const std::string wrapped_line_suffix) {
+  std::istringstream in_stream(in);
+  std::string wrapped, line, word;
+
+  in_stream >> word;
+  line = word;
+
+  while (in_stream >> word) {
+    if ((line.length() + 1 + word.length() + wrapped_line_suffix.length()) <
+        max_length) {
+      line += " " + word;
+    } else {
+      wrapped += line + wrapped_line_suffix + "\n";
+      line = wrapped_line_prefix + word;
+    }
+  }
+  wrapped += line;
+
+  return wrapped;
+}
+#endif  // !FLATBUFFERS_PREFER_PRINTF
+
+inline bool EscapeString(const char *s, size_t length, std::string *_text,
+                         bool allow_non_utf8, bool natural_utf8) {
+  std::string &text = *_text;
+  text += "\"";
+  for (uoffset_t i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+    char c = s[i];
+    switch (c) {
+      case '\n': text += "\\n"; break;
+      case '\t': text += "\\t"; break;
+      case '\r': text += "\\r"; break;
+      case '\b': text += "\\b"; break;
+      case '\f': text += "\\f"; break;
+      case '\"': text += "\\\""; break;
+      case '\\': text += "\\\\"; break;
+      default:
+        if (c >= ' ' && c <= '~') {
+          text += c;
+        } else {
+          // Not printable ASCII data. Let's see if it's valid UTF-8 first:
+          const char *utf8 = s + i;
+          int ucc = FromUTF8(&utf8);
+          if (ucc < 0) {
+            if (allow_non_utf8) {
+              text += "\\x";
+              text += IntToStringHex(static_cast<uint8_t>(c), 2);
+            } else {
+              // There are two cases here:
+              //
+              // 1) We reached here by parsing an IDL file. In that case,
+              // we previously checked for non-UTF-8, so we shouldn't reach
+              // here.
+              //
+              // 2) We reached here by someone calling GenerateText()
+              // on a previously-serialized flatbuffer. The data might have
+              // non-UTF-8 Strings, or might be corrupt.
+              //
+              // In both cases, we have to give up and inform the caller
+              // they have no JSON.
+              return false;
+            }
+          } else {
+            if (natural_utf8) {
+              // utf8 points to past all utf-8 bytes parsed
+              text.append(s + i, static_cast<size_t>(utf8 - s - i));
+            } else if (ucc <= 0xFFFF) {
+              // Parses as Unicode within JSON's \uXXXX range, so use that.
+              text += "\\u";
+              text += IntToStringHex(ucc, 4);
+            } else if (ucc <= 0x10FFFF) {
+              // Encode Unicode SMP values to a surrogate pair using two \u
+              // escapes.
+              uint32_t base = ucc - 0x10000;
+              auto high_surrogate = (base >> 10) + 0xD800;
+              auto low_surrogate = (base & 0x03FF) + 0xDC00;
+              text += "\\u";
+              text += IntToStringHex(high_surrogate, 4);
+              text += "\\u";
+              text += IntToStringHex(low_surrogate, 4);
+            }
+            // Skip past characters recognized.
+            i = static_cast<uoffset_t>(utf8 - s - 1);
+          }
+        }
+        break;
+    }
+  }
+  text += "\"";
+  return true;
+}
+
+// Remove paired quotes in a string: "text"|'text' -> text.
+std::string RemoveStringQuotes(const std::string &s);
+
+// Change th global C-locale to locale with name <locale_name>.
+// Returns an actual locale name in <_value>, useful if locale_name is "" or
+// null.
+bool SetGlobalTestLocale(const char *locale_name,
+                         std::string *_value = nullptr);
+
+// Read (or test) a value of environment variable.
+bool ReadEnvironmentVariable(const char *var_name,
+                             std::string *_value = nullptr);
+
+// MSVC specific: Send all assert reports to STDOUT to prevent CI hangs.
+void SetupDefaultCRTReportMode();
+
+}  // namespace flatbuffers
+
+#endif  // FLATBUFFERS_UTIL_H_