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#ifndef __FRAMEWORK_MACROS_GENERIC_HXX_
#define __FRAMEWORK_MACROS_GENERIC_HXX_

//_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
//  includes
//_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
#include <rtl/textenc.h>

//*****************************************************************************************************************
//  generic macros
//*****************************************************************************************************************

/*_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
    DECLARE_ASCII( SASCIIVALUE )

    Use it to declare a constant ascii value at compile time in code.
    zB. OUSting sTest = DECLARE_ASCII( "Test" )
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________*/

#define DECLARE_ASCII( SASCIIVALUE )                                                                            \
    ::rtl::OUString( RTL_CONSTASCII_USTRINGPARAM( SASCIIVALUE ) )

/*_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
    U2B( SUNICODEVALUE )
    B2U( SASCIIVALUE )

    Use it to convert unicode strings to ascii values and reverse ...
    We use UTF8 as default textencoding.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________*/

#define U2B( SUNICODEVALUE )                                                                                    \
    ::rtl::OUStringToOString( SUNICODEVALUE, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8 )

#define B2U( SASCIIVALUE )                                                                                      \
    ::rtl::OStringToOUString( SASCIIVALUE, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8 )

#endif  //  #ifndef __FRAMEWORK_MACROS_GENERIC_HXX_

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