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if not modules then modules = { } end modules ['l-unicode'] = {
    version   = 1.001,
    optimize  = true,
    comment   = "companion to luat-lib.mkxl",
    author    = "Hans Hagen, PRAGMA-ADE, Hasselt NL",
    copyright = "PRAGMA ADE / ConTeXt Development Team",
    license   = "see context related readme files"
}

-- See l-unicode.lua for the more generic (also 5.2) versions of the
-- functions below ... that file evolved over time.
--
-- In lua 5.3+ we have:
--
-- utf8.char(···)         : concatinated
-- utf8.charpatt          : "[\0-\x7F\xC2-\xF4][\x80-\xBF]*"
-- utf8.codes(s)          : for p, c in utf8.codes(s) do body end
-- utf8.codepoint(s [, i [, j]])
-- utf8.len(s [, i])
-- utf8.offset(s, n [, i])

utf     = utf or { }
unicode = nil

local type = type
local char, byte, format, sub, gmatch, rep = string.char, string.byte, string.format, string.sub, string.gmatch, string.rep
local concat = table.concat
local P, C, R, Cs, Ct, Cmt, Cc, Carg, Cp = lpeg.P, lpeg.C, lpeg.R, lpeg.Cs, lpeg.Ct, lpeg.Cmt, lpeg.Cc, lpeg.Carg, lpeg.Cp

local lpegmatch       = lpeg.match
local patterns        = lpeg.patterns
local tabletopattern  = lpeg.utfchartabletopattern

local finder          = lpeg.finder
local replacer        = lpeg.replacer

local p_utftype       = patterns.utftype
local p_utfstricttype = patterns.utfstricttype
local p_utfoffset     = patterns.utfoffset
local p_utf8character = patterns.utf8character
local p_utf8char      = patterns.utf8char
local p_utf8byte      = patterns.utf8byte
local p_utfbom        = patterns.utfbom
local p_newline       = patterns.newline
local p_whitespace    = patterns.whitespace

local utfchar         = string.utfcharacter
local utfbyte         = string.utfvalue
local utflength       = string.utflength
local utfcharacters   = string.utfcharacters
local utfbytepairs    = string.bytepairs

-- string.utfvalues
-- string.characters
-- string.characterpairs
-- string.bytes
-- string.utflength
-- string.utfvalues

utf.char       = utfchar
utf.byte       = utfbyte
utf.len        = utflength
utf.length     = utflength
utf.characters = utfcharacters
utf.bytepairs  = utfbytepairs

function utf.filetype(data)
    return data and lpegmatch(p_utftype,data) or "unknown"
end

do

    local toentities = Cs (
        (
            patterns.utf8one
                + (
                    patterns.utf8two
                  + patterns.utf8three
                  + patterns.utf8four
                ) / function(s) local b = utfbyte(s) if b < 127 then return s else return format("&#%X;",b) end end
        )^0
    )

    patterns.toentities = toentities

    function utf.toentities(str)
        return lpegmatch(toentities,str)
    end

end

do

    local one  = P(1)
    local two  = C(1) * C(1)
    local four = C(R(utfchar(0xD8),utfchar(0xFF))) * C(1) * C(1) * C(1)

    local pattern =
        P("\254\255") * Cs( (
            four  / function(a,b,c,d)
                        local ab = 0xFF * byte(a) + byte(b)
                        local cd = 0xFF * byte(c) + byte(d)
                        return utfchar((ab-0xD800)*0x400 + (cd-0xDC00) + 0x10000)
                    end
          + two   / function(a,b)
                        return utfchar(byte(a)*256 + byte(b))
                    end
          + one
        )^1 )
      + P("\255\254") * Cs( (
            four  / function(b,a,d,c)
                        local ab = 0xFF * byte(a) + byte(b)
                        local cd = 0xFF * byte(c) + byte(d)
                        return utfchar((ab-0xD800)*0x400 + (cd-0xDC00) + 0x10000)
                    end
          + two   / function(b,a)
                        return utfchar(byte(a)*256 + byte(b))
                    end
          + one
        )^1 )

    function string.toutf(s) -- in string namespace
        return lpegmatch(pattern,s) or s -- todo: utf32
    end

end

do

    local validatedutf = Cs (
        (
            patterns.utf8one
          + patterns.utf8two
          + patterns.utf8three
          + patterns.utf8four
          + P(1) / "�"
        )^0
    )

    patterns.validatedutf = validatedutf

    function utf.is_valid(str)
        return type(str) == "string" and lpegmatch(validatedutf,str) or false
    end

end

if not utf.sub then

    -- also negative indices, upto 10 times slower than a c variant

    local b, e, n, first, last = 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

    local function slide_zero(s,p)
        n = n + 1
        if n >= last then
            e = p - 1
        else
            return p
        end
    end

    local function slide_one(s,p)
        n = n + 1
        if n == first then
            b = p
        end
        if n >= last then
            e = p - 1
        else
            return p
        end
    end

    local function slide_two(s,p)
        n = n + 1
        if n == first then
            b = p
        else
            return true
        end
    end

    local pattern_zero  = Cmt(p_utf8character,slide_zero)^0
    local pattern_one   = Cmt(p_utf8character,slide_one )^0
    local pattern_two   = Cmt(p_utf8character,slide_two )^0

    local pattern_first = C(p_utf8character)

    function utf.sub(str,start,stop)
        if not start then
            return str
        end
        if start == 0 then
            start = 1
        end
        if not stop then
            if start < 0 then
                local l = utflength(str) -- we can inline this function if needed
                start = l + start
            else
                start = start - 1
            end
            b, n, first = 0, 0, start
            lpegmatch(pattern_two,str)
            if n >= first then
                return sub(str,b)
            else
                return ""
            end
        end
        if start < 0 or stop < 0 then
            local l = utf.length(str)
            if start < 0 then
                start = l + start
                if start <= 0 then
                    start = 1
                else
                    start = start + 1
                end
            end
            if stop < 0 then
                stop = l + stop
                if stop == 0 then
                    stop = 1
                else
                    stop = stop + 1
                end
            end
        end
        if start == 1 and stop == 1 then
            return lpegmatch(pattern_first,str) or ""
        elseif start > stop then
            return ""
        elseif start > 1 then
            b, e, n, first, last = 0, 0, 0, start - 1, stop
            lpegmatch(pattern_one,str)
            if n >= first and e == 0 then
                e = #str
            end
            return sub(str,b,e)
        else
            b, e, n, last = 1, 0, 0, stop
            lpegmatch(pattern_zero,str)
            if e == 0 then
                e = #str
            end
            return sub(str,b,e)
        end
    end

    -- local n = 100000
    -- local str = string.rep("123456àáâãäå",100)
    --
    -- for i=-15,15,1 do
    --     for j=-15,15,1 do
    --         if utf.xsub(str,i,j) ~= utf.sub(str,i,j) then
    --             print("error",i,j,"l>"..utf.xsub(str,i,j),"s>"..utf.sub(str,i,j))
    --         end
    --     end
    --     if utf.xsub(str,i) ~= utf.sub(str,i) then
    --         print("error",i,"l>"..utf.xsub(str,i),"s>"..utf.sub(str,i))
    --     end
    -- end

    -- print(" 1, 7",utf.xsub(str, 1, 7),utf.sub(str, 1, 7))
    -- print(" 0, 7",utf.xsub(str, 0, 7),utf.sub(str, 0, 7))
    -- print(" 0, 9",utf.xsub(str, 0, 9),utf.sub(str, 0, 9))
    -- print(" 4   ",utf.xsub(str, 4   ),utf.sub(str, 4   ))
    -- print(" 0   ",utf.xsub(str, 0   ),utf.sub(str, 0   ))
    -- print(" 0, 0",utf.xsub(str, 0, 0),utf.sub(str, 0, 0))
    -- print(" 4, 4",utf.xsub(str, 4, 4),utf.sub(str, 4, 4))
    -- print(" 4, 0",utf.xsub(str, 4, 0),utf.sub(str, 4, 0))
    -- print("-3, 0",utf.xsub(str,-3, 0),utf.sub(str,-3, 0))
    -- print(" 0,-3",utf.xsub(str, 0,-3),utf.sub(str, 0,-3))
    -- print(" 5,-3",utf.xsub(str,-5,-3),utf.sub(str,-5,-3))
    -- print("-3   ",utf.xsub(str,-3   ),utf.sub(str,-3   ))

end

function utf.remapper(mapping,option,action) -- static also returns a pattern
    local variant = type(mapping)
    if variant == "table" then
        action = action or mapping
        if option == "dynamic" then
            local pattern = false
            table.setmetatablenewindex(mapping,function(t,k,v) rawset(t,k,v) pattern = false end)
            return function(str)
                if not str or str == "" then
                    return ""
                else
                    if not pattern then
                        pattern = Cs((tabletopattern(mapping)/action + p_utf8character)^0)
                    end
                    return lpegmatch(pattern,str)
                end
            end
        elseif option == "pattern" then
            return Cs((tabletopattern(mapping)/action + p_utf8character)^0)
     -- elseif option == "static" then
        else
            local pattern = Cs((tabletopattern(mapping)/action + p_utf8character)^0)
            return function(str)
                if not str or str == "" then
                    return ""
                else
                    return lpegmatch(pattern,str)
                end
            end, pattern
        end
    elseif variant == "function" then
        if option == "pattern" then
            return Cs((p_utf8character/mapping + p_utf8character)^0)
        else
            local pattern = Cs((p_utf8character/mapping + p_utf8character)^0)
            return function(str)
                if not str or str == "" then
                    return ""
                else
                    return lpegmatch(pattern,str)
                end
            end, pattern
        end
    else
        -- is actually an error
        return function(str)
            return str or ""
        end
    end
end

-- local remap = utf.remapper { a = 'd', b = "c", c = "b", d = "a" }
-- print(remap("abcd 1234 abcd"))

function utf.replacer(t) -- no precheck, always string builder
    local r = replacer(t,false,false,true)
    return function(str)
        return lpegmatch(r,str)
    end
end

function utf.subtituter(t) -- with precheck and no building if no match
    local f = finder  (t)
    local r = replacer(t,false,false,true)
    return function(str)
        local i = lpegmatch(f,str)
        if not i then
            return str
        elseif i > #str then
            return str
        else
         -- return sub(str,1,i-2) .. lpegmatch(r,str,i-1) -- slower
            return lpegmatch(r,str)
        end
    end
end

-- inspect(utf.split("a b c d"))
-- inspect(utf.split("a b c d",true))

local utflinesplitter     = p_utfbom^-1 * lpeg.tsplitat(p_newline)
local utfcharsplitter_ows = p_utfbom^-1 * Ct(C(p_utf8character)^0)
local utfcharsplitter_iws = p_utfbom^-1 * Ct((p_whitespace^1 + C(p_utf8character))^0)
local utfcharsplitter_raw = Ct(C(p_utf8character)^0)

patterns.utflinesplitter  = utflinesplitter

function utf.splitlines(str)
    return lpegmatch(utflinesplitter,str or "")
end

function utf.split(str,ignorewhitespace) -- new
    if ignorewhitespace then
        return lpegmatch(utfcharsplitter_iws,str or "")
    else
        return lpegmatch(utfcharsplitter_ows,str or "")
    end
end

function utf.totable(str) -- keeps bom
    return lpegmatch(utfcharsplitter_raw,str)
end

-- 0  EF BB BF      UTF-8
-- 1  FF FE         UTF-16-little-endian
-- 2  FE FF         UTF-16-big-endian
-- 3  FF FE 00 00   UTF-32-little-endian
-- 4  00 00 FE FF   UTF-32-big-endian
--
-- \000 fails in <= 5.0 but is valid in >=5.1 where %z is depricated

-- utf.name = {
--     [0] = 'utf-8',
--     [1] = 'utf-16-le',
--     [2] = 'utf-16-be',
--     [3] = 'utf-32-le',
--     [4] = 'utf-32-be'
-- }

function utf.magic(f) -- not used
    local str = f:read(4) or ""
    local off = lpegmatch(p_utfoffset,str)
    if off < 4 then
        f:seek('set',off)
    end
    return lpegmatch(p_utftype,str)
end

local utf_16_be_getbom = patterns.utfbom_16_be^-1
local utf_16_le_getbom = patterns.utfbom_16_le^-1
local utf_32_be_getbom = patterns.utfbom_32_be^-1
local utf_32_le_getbom = patterns.utfbom_32_le^-1

local utf_16_be_linesplitter = utf_16_be_getbom * lpeg.tsplitat(patterns.utf_16_be_nl)
local utf_16_le_linesplitter = utf_16_le_getbom * lpeg.tsplitat(patterns.utf_16_le_nl)
local utf_32_be_linesplitter = utf_32_be_getbom * lpeg.tsplitat(patterns.utf_32_be_nl)
local utf_32_le_linesplitter = utf_32_le_getbom * lpeg.tsplitat(patterns.utf_32_le_nl)

local more = 0

local p_utf16_to_utf8_be = C(1) * C(1) /function(left,right)
    local now = 256*byte(left) + byte(right)
    if more > 0 then
        now = (more-0xD800)*0x400 + (now-0xDC00) + 0x10000
        more = 0
        return utfchar(now)
    elseif now >= 0xD800 and now <= 0xDBFF then
        more = now
        return "" -- else the c's end up in the stream
    else
        return utfchar(now)
    end
end

local p_utf16_to_utf8_le = C(1) * C(1) /function(right,left)
    local now = 256*byte(left) + byte(right)
    if more > 0 then
        now = (more-0xD800)*0x400 + (now-0xDC00) + 0x10000
        more = 0
        return utfchar(now)
    elseif now >= 0xD800 and now <= 0xDBFF then
        more = now
        return "" -- else the c's end up in the stream
    else
        return utfchar(now)
    end
end

local p_utf32_to_utf8_be = C(1) * C(1) * C(1) * C(1) /function(a,b,c,d)
    return utfchar(256*256*256*byte(a) + 256*256*byte(b) + 256*byte(c) + byte(d))
end

local p_utf32_to_utf8_le = C(1) * C(1) * C(1) * C(1) /function(a,b,c,d)
    return utfchar(256*256*256*byte(d) + 256*256*byte(c) + 256*byte(b) + byte(a))
end

p_utf16_to_utf8_be = P(true) / function() more = 0 end * utf_16_be_getbom * Cs(p_utf16_to_utf8_be^0)
p_utf16_to_utf8_le = P(true) / function() more = 0 end * utf_16_le_getbom * Cs(p_utf16_to_utf8_le^0)
p_utf32_to_utf8_be = P(true) / function() more = 0 end * utf_32_be_getbom * Cs(p_utf32_to_utf8_be^0)
p_utf32_to_utf8_le = P(true) / function() more = 0 end * utf_32_le_getbom * Cs(p_utf32_to_utf8_le^0)

patterns.utf16_to_utf8_be = p_utf16_to_utf8_be
patterns.utf16_to_utf8_le = p_utf16_to_utf8_le
patterns.utf32_to_utf8_be = p_utf32_to_utf8_be
patterns.utf32_to_utf8_le = p_utf32_to_utf8_le

local utf16_to_utf8_be = function(s)
    if s and s ~= "" then
        return lpegmatch(p_utf16_to_utf8_be,s)
    else
        return s
    end
end

local utf16_to_utf8_be_t = function(t)
    if not t then
        return nil
    elseif type(t) == "string" then
        t = lpegmatch(utf_16_be_linesplitter,t)
    end
    for i=1,#t do
        local s = t[i]
        if s ~= "" then
            t[i] = lpegmatch(p_utf16_to_utf8_be,s)
        end
    end
    return t
end

local utf16_to_utf8_le = function(s)
    if s and s ~= "" then
        return lpegmatch(p_utf16_to_utf8_le,s)
    else
        return s
    end
end

local utf16_to_utf8_le_t = function(t)
    if not t then
        return nil
    elseif type(t) == "string" then
        t = lpegmatch(utf_16_le_linesplitter,t)
    end
    for i=1,#t do
        local s = t[i]
        if s ~= "" then
            t[i] = lpegmatch(p_utf16_to_utf8_le,s)
        end
    end
    return t
end

local utf32_to_utf8_be = function(s)
    if s and s ~= "" then
        return lpegmatch(p_utf32_to_utf8_be,s)
    else
        return s
    end
end

local utf32_to_utf8_be_t = function(t)
    if not t then
        return nil
    elseif type(t) == "string" then
        t = lpegmatch(utf_32_be_linesplitter,t)
    end
    for i=1,#t do
        local s = t[i]
        if s ~= "" then
            t[i] = lpegmatch(p_utf32_to_utf8_be,s)
        end
    end
    return t
end

local utf32_to_utf8_le = function(s)
    if s and s ~= "" then
        return lpegmatch(p_utf32_to_utf8_le,s)
    else
        return s
    end
end

local utf32_to_utf8_le_t = function(t)
    if not t then
        return nil
    elseif type(t) == "string" then
        t = lpegmatch(utf_32_le_linesplitter,t)
    end
    for i=1,#t do
        local s = t[i]
        if s ~= "" then
            t[i] = lpegmatch(p_utf32_to_utf8_le,s)
        end
    end
    return t
end

utf.utf16_to_utf8_le_t = utf16_to_utf8_le_t
utf.utf16_to_utf8_be_t = utf16_to_utf8_be_t
utf.utf32_to_utf8_le_t = utf32_to_utf8_le_t
utf.utf32_to_utf8_be_t = utf32_to_utf8_be_t

utf.utf16_to_utf8_le   = utf16_to_utf8_le
utf.utf16_to_utf8_be   = utf16_to_utf8_be
utf.utf32_to_utf8_le   = utf32_to_utf8_le
utf.utf32_to_utf8_be   = utf32_to_utf8_be

function utf.utf8_to_utf8_t(t)
    return type(t) == "string" and lpegmatch(utflinesplitter,t) or t
end

function utf.utf16_to_utf8_t(t,endian)
    return endian and utf16_to_utf8_be_t(t) or utf16_to_utf8_le_t(t) or t
end

function utf.utf32_to_utf8_t(t,endian)
    return endian and utf32_to_utf8_be_t(t) or utf32_to_utf8_le_t(t) or t
end

do

    local function little(b)
        if b < 0x10000 then
            return char(b%256,(b>>8))
        else
            b = b - 0x10000
            local b1 = (b>>10) + 0xD800
            local b2 = b%1024 + 0xDC00
            return char(b1%256,(b1>>8),b2%256,(b2>>8))
        end
    end

    local function big(b)
        if b < 0x10000 then
            return char((b>>8),b%256)
        else
            b = b - 0x10000
            local b1 = (b>>10) + 0xD800
            local b2 = b%1024 + 0xDC00
            return char((b1>>8),b1%256,(b2>>8),b2%256)
        end
    end

    local l_remap = Cs((p_utf8byte/little+P(1)/"")^0)
    local b_remap = Cs((p_utf8byte/big   +P(1)/"")^0)

    local function utf8_to_utf16_be(str,nobom)
        if nobom then
            return lpegmatch(b_remap,str)
        else
            return char(254,255) .. lpegmatch(b_remap,str)
        end
    end

    local function utf8_to_utf16_le(str,nobom)
        if nobom then
            return lpegmatch(l_remap,str)
        else
            return char(255,254) .. lpegmatch(l_remap,str)
        end
    end

    utf.utf8_to_utf16_be = utf8_to_utf16_be
    utf.utf8_to_utf16_le = utf8_to_utf16_le

    function utf.utf8_to_utf16(str,littleendian,nobom)
        if littleendian then
            return utf8_to_utf16_le(str,nobom)
        else
            return utf8_to_utf16_be(str,nobom)
        end
    end

end

local pattern = Cs (
    (p_utf8byte           / function(unicode          ) return format(  "0x%04X",          unicode) end) *
    (p_utf8byte * Carg(1) / function(unicode,separator) return format("%s0x%04X",separator,unicode) end)^0
)

function utf.tocodes(str,separator)
    return lpegmatch(pattern,str,1,separator or " ")
end

function utf.ustring(s)
    return format("U+%05X",type(s) == "number" and s or utfbyte(s))
end

function utf.xstring(s)
    return format("0x%05X",type(s) == "number" and s or utfbyte(s))
end

function utf.toeight(str)
    if not str or str == "" then
        return nil
    end
    local utftype = lpegmatch(p_utfstricttype,str)
    if utftype == "utf-8" then
        return sub(str,4)               -- remove the bom
    elseif utftype == "utf-16-be" then
        return utf16_to_utf8_be(str)    -- bom gets removed
    elseif utftype == "utf-16-le" then
        return utf16_to_utf8_le(str)    -- bom gets removed
    else
        return str
    end
end

do

    local p_nany = p_utf8character / ""
    local cache  = { }

    function utf.count(str,what)
        if type(what) == "string" then
            local p = cache[what]
            if not p then
                p = Cs((P(what)/" " + p_nany)^0)
                cache[p] = p
            end
            return #lpegmatch(p,str)
        else -- 4 times slower but still faster than / function
            return #lpegmatch(Cs((P(what)/" " + p_nany)^0),str)
        end
    end

end

utf.values = string.utfvalues

function utf.chrlen(u) -- u is number
    return
        (u < 0x80 and 1) or
        (u < 0xE0 and 2) or
        (u < 0xF0 and 3) or
        (u < 0xF8 and 4) or
        (u < 0xFC and 5) or
        (u < 0xFE and 6) or 0
end

-- hashing saves a little but not that much in practice
--
-- local utf32 = table.setmetatableindex(function(t,k) local v = toutf32(k) t[k] = v return v end)

do

    local extract = bit32.extract
    local char    = string.char

    function utf.toutf32string(n)
        if n <= 0xFF then
            return
                char(n) ..
                "\000\000\000"
        elseif n <= 0xFFFF then
            return
                char(extract(n, 0,8)) ..
                char(extract(n, 8,8)) ..
                "\000\000"
        elseif n <= 0xFFFFFF then
            return
                char(extract(n, 0,8)) ..
                char(extract(n, 8,8)) ..
                char(extract(n,16,8)) ..
                "\000"
        else
            return
                char(extract(n, 0,8)) ..
                char(extract(n, 8,8)) ..
                char(extract(n,16,8)) ..
                char(extract(n,24,8))
        end
    end

end

-- goodie:

function string.utfpadd(s,n)
    if n and n ~= 0 then
        local l = utflength(s)
        if n > 0 then
            local d = n - l
            if d > 0 then
                return rep(c or " ",d) .. s
            end
        else
            local d = - n - l
            if d > 0 then
                return s .. rep(c or " ",d)
            end
        end
    end
    return s
end

-- goodies

do

    lpeg.UP = P

    function lpeg.US(str)
        local p = P(false)
        for uc in utfcharacters(str) do
            p = p + P(uc)
        end
        return p
    end

    local range = p_utf8byte * p_utf8byte + Cc(false) -- utf8byte is already a capture

    function lpeg.UR(str,more)
        local first, last
        if type(str) == "number" then
            first = str
            last = more or first
        else
            first, last = lpegmatch(range,str)
            if not last then
                return P(str)
            end
        end
        if first == last then
            return P(str)
        end
        if not utfchar then
            utfchar = utf.char -- maybe delayed
        end
        if utfchar and (last - first < 8) then -- a somewhat arbitrary criterium
            local p = P(false)
            for i=first,last do
                p = p + P(utfchar(i))
            end
            return p -- nil when invalid range
        else
            local f = function(b)
                return b >= first and b <= last
            end
            -- tricky, these nested captures
            return p_utf8byte / f -- nil when invalid range
        end
    end

    -- print(lpeg.match(lpeg.Cs((C(lpeg.UR("αω"))/{ ["χ"] = "OEPS" })^0),"αωχαω"))

end