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<?php
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/**
 * @defgroup UtfNormal UtfNormal
 */

/** */
require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/UtfNormalUtil.php';

global $utfCombiningClass, $utfCanonicalComp, $utfCanonicalDecomp;
$utfCombiningClass = NULL;
$utfCanonicalComp = NULL;
$utfCanonicalDecomp = NULL;

# Load compatibility decompositions on demand if they are needed.
global $utfCompatibilityDecomp;
$utfCompatibilityDecomp = NULL;

/**
 * For using the ICU wrapper
 */
define( 'UNORM_NONE', 1 );
define( 'UNORM_NFD',  2 );
define( 'UNORM_NFKD', 3 );
define( 'UNORM_NFC',  4 );
define( 'UNORM_DEFAULT', UNORM_NFC );
define( 'UNORM_NFKC', 5 );
define( 'UNORM_FCD',  6 );

define( 'NORMALIZE_ICU', function_exists( 'utf8_normalize' ) );

/**
 * Unicode normalization routines for working with UTF-8 strings.
 * Currently assumes that input strings are valid UTF-8!
 *
 * Not as fast as I'd like, but should be usable for most purposes.
 * UtfNormal::toNFC() will bail early if given ASCII text or text
 * it can quickly deterimine is already normalized.
 *
 * All functions can be called static.
 *
 * See description of forms at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/
 *
 * @ingroup UtfNormal
 */
class UtfNormal {
	/**
	 * The ultimate convenience function! Clean up invalid UTF-8 sequences,
	 * and convert to normal form C, canonical composition.
	 *
	 * Fast return for pure ASCII strings; some lesser optimizations for
	 * strings containing only known-good characters. Not as fast as toNFC().
	 *
	 * @param $string String: a UTF-8 string
	 * @return string a clean, shiny, normalized UTF-8 string
	 */
	static function cleanUp( $string ) {
		if( NORMALIZE_ICU ) {
			# We exclude a few chars that ICU would not.
			$string = preg_replace(
				'/[\x00-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f]/',
				UTF8_REPLACEMENT,
				$string );
			$string = str_replace( UTF8_FFFE, UTF8_REPLACEMENT, $string );
			$string = str_replace( UTF8_FFFF, UTF8_REPLACEMENT, $string );

			# UnicodeString constructor fails if the string ends with a
			# head byte. Add a junk char at the end, we'll strip it off.
			return rtrim( utf8_normalize( $string . "\x01", UNORM_NFC ), "\x01" );
		} elseif( UtfNormal::quickIsNFCVerify( $string ) ) {
			# Side effect -- $string has had UTF-8 errors cleaned up.
			return $string;
		} else {
			return UtfNormal::NFC( $string );
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Convert a UTF-8 string to normal form C, canonical composition.
	 * Fast return for pure ASCII strings; some lesser optimizations for
	 * strings containing only known-good characters.
	 *
	 * @param $string String: a valid UTF-8 string. Input is not validated.
	 * @return string a UTF-8 string in normal form C
	 */
	static function toNFC( $string ) {
		if( NORMALIZE_ICU )
			return utf8_normalize( $string, UNORM_NFC );
		elseif( UtfNormal::quickIsNFC( $string ) )
			return $string;
		else
			return UtfNormal::NFC( $string );
	}

	/**
	 * Convert a UTF-8 string to normal form D, canonical decomposition.
	 * Fast return for pure ASCII strings.
	 *
	 * @param $string String: a valid UTF-8 string. Input is not validated.
	 * @return string a UTF-8 string in normal form D
	 */
	static function toNFD( $string ) {
		if( NORMALIZE_ICU )
			return utf8_normalize( $string, UNORM_NFD );
		elseif( preg_match( '/[\x80-\xff]/', $string ) )
			return UtfNormal::NFD( $string );
		else
			return $string;
	}

	/**
	 * Convert a UTF-8 string to normal form KC, compatibility composition.
	 * This may cause irreversible information loss, use judiciously.
	 * Fast return for pure ASCII strings.
	 *
	 * @param $string String: a valid UTF-8 string. Input is not validated.
	 * @return string a UTF-8 string in normal form KC
	 */
	static function toNFKC( $string ) {
		if( NORMALIZE_ICU )
			return utf8_normalize( $string, UNORM_NFKC );
		elseif( preg_match( '/[\x80-\xff]/', $string ) )
			return UtfNormal::NFKC( $string );
		else
			return $string;
	}

	/**
	 * Convert a UTF-8 string to normal form KD, compatibility decomposition.
	 * This may cause irreversible information loss, use judiciously.
	 * Fast return for pure ASCII strings.
	 *
	 * @param $string String: a valid UTF-8 string. Input is not validated.
	 * @return string a UTF-8 string in normal form KD
	 */
	static function toNFKD( $string ) {
		if( NORMALIZE_ICU )
			return utf8_normalize( $string, UNORM_NFKD );
		elseif( preg_match( '/[\x80-\xff]/', $string ) )
			return UtfNormal::NFKD( $string );
		else
			return $string;
	}

	/**
	 * Load the basic composition data if necessary
	 * @private
	 */
	static function loadData() {
		global $utfCombiningClass;
		if( !isset( $utfCombiningClass ) ) {
			require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/UtfNormalData.inc' );
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Returns true if the string is _definitely_ in NFC.
	 * Returns false if not or uncertain.
	 * @param $string String: a valid UTF-8 string. Input is not validated.
	 * @return bool
	 */
	static function quickIsNFC( $string ) {
		# ASCII is always valid NFC!
		# If it's pure ASCII, let it through.
		if( !preg_match( '/[\x80-\xff]/', $string ) ) return true;

		UtfNormal::loadData();
		global $utfCheckNFC, $utfCombiningClass;
		$len = strlen( $string );
		for( $i = 0; $i < $len; $i++ ) {
			$c = $string{$i};
			$n = ord( $c );
			if( $n < 0x80 ) {
				continue;
			} elseif( $n >= 0xf0 ) {
				$c = substr( $string, $i, 4 );
				$i += 3;
			} elseif( $n >= 0xe0 ) {
				$c = substr( $string, $i, 3 );
				$i += 2;
			} elseif( $n >= 0xc0 ) {
				$c = substr( $string, $i, 2 );
				$i++;
			}
			if( isset( $utfCheckNFC[$c] ) ) {
				# If it's NO or MAYBE, bail and do the slow check.
				return false;
			}
			if( isset( $utfCombiningClass[$c] ) ) {
				# Combining character? We might have to do sorting, at least.
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns true if the string is _definitely_ in NFC.
	 * Returns false if not or uncertain.
	 * @param $string String: a UTF-8 string, altered on output to be valid UTF-8 safe for XML.
	 */
	static function quickIsNFCVerify( &$string ) {
		# Screen out some characters that eg won't be allowed in XML
		$string = preg_replace( '/[\x00-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f]/', UTF8_REPLACEMENT, $string );

		# ASCII is always valid NFC!
		# If we're only ever given plain ASCII, we can avoid the overhead
		# of initializing the decomposition tables by skipping out early.
		if( !preg_match( '/[\x80-\xff]/', $string ) ) return true;

		static $checkit = null, $tailBytes = null, $utfCheckOrCombining = null;
		if( !isset( $checkit ) ) {
			# Load/build some scary lookup tables...
			UtfNormal::loadData();
			global $utfCheckNFC, $utfCombiningClass;

			$utfCheckOrCombining = array_merge( $utfCheckNFC, $utfCombiningClass );

			# Head bytes for sequences which we should do further validity checks
			$checkit = array_flip( array_map( 'chr',
					array( 0xc0, 0xc1, 0xe0, 0xed, 0xef,
						   0xf0, 0xf1, 0xf2, 0xf3, 0xf4, 0xf5, 0xf6, 0xf7,
						   0xf8, 0xf9, 0xfa, 0xfb, 0xfc, 0xfd, 0xfe, 0xff ) ) );

			# Each UTF-8 head byte is followed by a certain
			# number of tail bytes.
			$tailBytes = array();
			for( $n = 0; $n < 256; $n++ ) {
				if( $n < 0xc0 ) {
					$remaining = 0;
				} elseif( $n < 0xe0 ) {
					$remaining = 1;
				} elseif( $n < 0xf0 ) {
					$remaining = 2;
				} elseif( $n < 0xf8 ) {
					$remaining = 3;
				} elseif( $n < 0xfc ) {
					$remaining = 4;
				} elseif( $n < 0xfe ) {
					$remaining = 5;
				} else {
					$remaining = 0;
				}
				$tailBytes[chr($n)] = $remaining;
			}
		}

		# Chop the text into pure-ASCII and non-ASCII areas;
		# large ASCII parts can be handled much more quickly.
		# Don't chop up Unicode areas for punctuation, though,
		# that wastes energy.
		$matches = array();
		preg_match_all(
			'/([\x00-\x7f]+|[\x80-\xff][\x00-\x40\x5b-\x5f\x7b-\xff]*)/',
			$string, $matches );

		$looksNormal = true;
		$base = 0;
		$replace = array();
		foreach( $matches[1] as $str ) {
			$chunk = strlen( $str );

			if( $str{0} < "\x80" ) {
				# ASCII chunk: guaranteed to be valid UTF-8
				# and in normal form C, so skip over it.
				$base += $chunk;
				continue;
			}

			# We'll have to examine the chunk byte by byte to ensure
			# that it consists of valid UTF-8 sequences, and to see
			# if any of them might not be normalized.
			#
			# Since PHP is not the fastest language on earth, some of
			# this code is a little ugly with inner loop optimizations.

			$head = '';
			$len = $chunk + 1; # Counting down is faster. I'm *so* sorry.

			for( $i = -1; --$len; ) {
				if( $remaining = $tailBytes[$c = $str{++$i}] ) {
					# UTF-8 head byte!
					$sequence = $head = $c;
					do {
						# Look for the defined number of tail bytes...
						if( --$len && ( $c = $str{++$i} ) >= "\x80" && $c < "\xc0" ) {
							# Legal tail bytes are nice.
							$sequence .= $c;
						} else {
							if( 0 == $len ) {
								# Premature end of string!
								# Drop a replacement character into output to
								# represent the invalid UTF-8 sequence.
								$replace[] = array( UTF8_REPLACEMENT,
													$base + $i + 1 - strlen( $sequence ),
													strlen( $sequence ) );
								break 2;
							} else {
								# Illegal tail byte; abandon the sequence.
								$replace[] = array( UTF8_REPLACEMENT,
													$base + $i - strlen( $sequence ),
													strlen( $sequence ) );
								# Back up and reprocess this byte; it may itself
								# be a legal ASCII or UTF-8 sequence head.
								--$i;
								++$len;
								continue 2;
							}
						}
					} while( --$remaining );

					if( isset( $checkit[$head] ) ) {
						# Do some more detailed validity checks, for
						# invalid characters and illegal sequences.
						if( $head == "\xed" ) {
							# 0xed is relatively frequent in Korean, which
							# abuts the surrogate area, so we're doing
							# this check separately to speed things up.

							if( $sequence >= UTF8_SURROGATE_FIRST ) {
								# Surrogates are legal only in UTF-16 code.
								# They are totally forbidden here in UTF-8
								# utopia.
								$replace[] = array( UTF8_REPLACEMENT,
								             $base + $i + 1 - strlen( $sequence ),
								             strlen( $sequence ) );
								$head = '';
								continue;
							}
						} else {
							# Slower, but rarer checks...
							$n = ord( $head );
							if(
								# "Overlong sequences" are those that are syntactically
								# correct but use more UTF-8 bytes than are necessary to
								# encode a character. Naïve string comparisons can be
								# tricked into failing to see a match for an ASCII
								# character, for instance, which can be a security hole
								# if blacklist checks are being used.
							       ($n  < 0xc2 && $sequence <= UTF8_OVERLONG_A)
								|| ($n == 0xe0 && $sequence <= UTF8_OVERLONG_B)
								|| ($n == 0xf0 && $sequence <= UTF8_OVERLONG_C)

								# U+FFFE and U+FFFF are explicitly forbidden in Unicode.
								|| ($n == 0xef &&
									   ($sequence == UTF8_FFFE)
									|| ($sequence == UTF8_FFFF) )

								# Unicode has been limited to 21 bits; longer
								# sequences are not allowed.
								|| ($n >= 0xf0 && $sequence > UTF8_MAX) ) {

								$replace[] = array( UTF8_REPLACEMENT,
								                    $base + $i + 1 - strlen( $sequence ),
								                    strlen( $sequence ) );
								$head = '';
								continue;
							}
						}
					}

					if( isset( $utfCheckOrCombining[$sequence] ) ) {
						# If it's NO or MAYBE, we'll have to rip
						# the string apart and put it back together.
						# That's going to be mighty slow.
						$looksNormal = false;
					}

					# The sequence is legal!
					$head = '';
				} elseif( $c < "\x80" ) {
					# ASCII byte.
					$head = '';
				} elseif( $c < "\xc0" ) {
					# Illegal tail bytes
					if( $head == '' ) {
						# Out of the blue!
						$replace[] = array( UTF8_REPLACEMENT, $base + $i, 1 );
					} else {
						# Don't add if we're continuing a broken sequence;
						# we already put a replacement character when we looked
						# at the broken sequence.
						$replace[] = array( '', $base + $i, 1 );
					}
				} else {
					# Miscellaneous freaks.
					$replace[] = array( UTF8_REPLACEMENT, $base + $i, 1 );
					$head = '';
				}
			}
			$base += $chunk;
		}
		if( count( $replace ) ) {
			# There were illegal UTF-8 sequences we need to fix up.
			$out = '';
			$last = 0;
			foreach( $replace as $rep ) {
				list( $replacement, $start, $length ) = $rep;
				if( $last < $start ) {
					$out .= substr( $string, $last, $start - $last );
				}
				$out .= $replacement;
				$last = $start + $length;
			}
			if( $last < strlen( $string ) ) {
				$out .= substr( $string, $last );
			}
			$string = $out;
		}
		return $looksNormal;
	}

	# These take a string and run the normalization on them, without
	# checking for validity or any optimization etc. Input must be
	# VALID UTF-8!
	/**
	 * @param $string string
	 * @return string
	 * @private
	 */
	static function NFC( $string ) {
		return UtfNormal::fastCompose( UtfNormal::NFD( $string ) );
	}

	/**
	 * @param $string string
	 * @return string
	 * @private
	 */
	static function NFD( $string ) {
		UtfNormal::loadData();
		global $utfCanonicalDecomp;
		return UtfNormal::fastCombiningSort(
			UtfNormal::fastDecompose( $string, $utfCanonicalDecomp ) );
	}

	/**
	 * @param $string string
	 * @return string
	 * @private
	 */
	static function NFKC( $string ) {
		return UtfNormal::fastCompose( UtfNormal::NFKD( $string ) );
	}

	/**
	 * @param $string string
	 * @return string
	 * @private
	 */
	static function NFKD( $string ) {
		global $utfCompatibilityDecomp;
		if( !isset( $utfCompatibilityDecomp ) ) {
			require_once( 'UtfNormalDataK.inc' );
		}
		return UtfNormal::fastCombiningSort(
			UtfNormal::fastDecompose( $string, $utfCompatibilityDecomp ) );
	}


	/**
	 * Perform decomposition of a UTF-8 string into either D or KD form
	 * (depending on which decomposition map is passed to us).
	 * Input is assumed to be *valid* UTF-8. Invalid code will break.
	 * @private
	 * @param $string String: valid UTF-8 string
	 * @param $map Array: hash of expanded decomposition map
	 * @return string a UTF-8 string decomposed, not yet normalized (needs sorting)
	 */
	static function fastDecompose( $string, $map ) {
		UtfNormal::loadData();
		$len = strlen( $string );
		$out = '';
		for( $i = 0; $i < $len; $i++ ) {
			$c = $string{$i};
			$n = ord( $c );
			if( $n < 0x80 ) {
				# ASCII chars never decompose
				# THEY ARE IMMORTAL
				$out .= $c;
				continue;
			} elseif( $n >= 0xf0 ) {
				$c = substr( $string, $i, 4 );
				$i += 3;
			} elseif( $n >= 0xe0 ) {
				$c = substr( $string, $i, 3 );
				$i += 2;
			} elseif( $n >= 0xc0 ) {
				$c = substr( $string, $i, 2 );
				$i++;
			}
			if( isset( $map[$c] ) ) {
				$out .= $map[$c];
				continue;
			} else {
				if( $c >= UTF8_HANGUL_FIRST && $c <= UTF8_HANGUL_LAST ) {
					# Decompose a hangul syllable into jamo;
					# hardcoded for three-byte UTF-8 sequence.
					# A lookup table would be slightly faster,
					# but adds a lot of memory & disk needs.
					#
					$index = ( (ord( $c{0} ) & 0x0f) << 12
					         | (ord( $c{1} ) & 0x3f) <<  6
					         | (ord( $c{2} ) & 0x3f) )
					       - UNICODE_HANGUL_FIRST;
					$l = intval( $index / UNICODE_HANGUL_NCOUNT );
					$v = intval( ($index % UNICODE_HANGUL_NCOUNT) / UNICODE_HANGUL_TCOUNT);
					$t = $index % UNICODE_HANGUL_TCOUNT;
					$out .= "\xe1\x84" . chr( 0x80 + $l ) . "\xe1\x85" . chr( 0xa1 + $v );
					if( $t >= 25 ) {
						$out .= "\xe1\x87" . chr( 0x80 + $t - 25 );
					} elseif( $t ) {
						$out .= "\xe1\x86" . chr( 0xa7 + $t );
					}
					continue;
				}
			}
			$out .= $c;
		}
		return $out;
	}

	/**
	 * Sorts combining characters into canonical order. This is the
	 * final step in creating decomposed normal forms D and KD.
	 * @private
	 * @param $string String: a valid, decomposed UTF-8 string. Input is not validated.
	 * @return string a UTF-8 string with combining characters sorted in canonical order
	 */
	static function fastCombiningSort( $string ) {
		UtfNormal::loadData();
		global $utfCombiningClass;
		$len = strlen( $string );
		$out = '';
		$combiners = array();
		$lastClass = -1;
		for( $i = 0; $i < $len; $i++ ) {
			$c = $string{$i};
			$n = ord( $c );
			if( $n >= 0x80 ) {
				if( $n >= 0xf0 ) {
					$c = substr( $string, $i, 4 );
					$i += 3;
				} elseif( $n >= 0xe0 ) {
					$c = substr( $string, $i, 3 );
					$i += 2;
				} elseif( $n >= 0xc0 ) {
					$c = substr( $string, $i, 2 );
					$i++;
				}
				if( isset( $utfCombiningClass[$c] ) ) {
					$lastClass = $utfCombiningClass[$c];
					if( isset( $combiners[$lastClass] ) ) {
						$combiners[$lastClass] .= $c;
					} else {
						$combiners[$lastClass] = $c;
					}
					continue;
				}
			}
			if( $lastClass ) {
				ksort( $combiners );
				$out .= implode( '', $combiners );
				$combiners = array();
			}
			$out .= $c;
			$lastClass = 0;
		}
		if( $lastClass ) {
			ksort( $combiners );
			$out .= implode( '', $combiners );
		}
		return $out;
	}

	/**
	 * Produces canonically composed sequences, i.e. normal form C or KC.
	 *
	 * @private
	 * @param $string String: a valid UTF-8 string in sorted normal form D or KD. Input is not validated.
	 * @return string a UTF-8 string with canonical precomposed characters used where possible
	 */
	static function fastCompose( $string ) {
		UtfNormal::loadData();
		global $utfCanonicalComp, $utfCombiningClass;
		$len = strlen( $string );
		$out = '';
		$lastClass = -1;
		$lastHangul = 0;
		$startChar = '';
		$combining = '';
		$x1 = ord(substr(UTF8_HANGUL_VBASE,0,1));
		$x2 = ord(substr(UTF8_HANGUL_TEND,0,1));
		for( $i = 0; $i < $len; $i++ ) {
			$c = $string{$i};
			$n = ord( $c );
			if( $n < 0x80 ) {
				# No combining characters here...
				$out .= $startChar;
				$out .= $combining;
				$startChar = $c;
				$combining = '';
				$lastClass = 0;
				continue;
			} elseif( $n >= 0xf0 ) {
				$c = substr( $string, $i, 4 );
				$i += 3;
			} elseif( $n >= 0xe0 ) {
				$c = substr( $string, $i, 3 );
				$i += 2;
			} elseif( $n >= 0xc0 ) {
				$c = substr( $string, $i, 2 );
				$i++;
			}
			$pair = $startChar . $c;
			if( $n > 0x80 ) {
				if( isset( $utfCombiningClass[$c] ) ) {
					# A combining char; see what we can do with it
					$class = $utfCombiningClass[$c];
					if( !empty( $startChar ) &&
						$lastClass < $class &&
						$class > 0 &&
						isset( $utfCanonicalComp[$pair] ) ) {
						$startChar = $utfCanonicalComp[$pair];
						$class = 0;
					} else {
						$combining .= $c;
					}
					$lastClass = $class;
					$lastHangul = 0;
					continue;
				}
			}
			# New start char
			if( $lastClass == 0 ) {
				if( isset( $utfCanonicalComp[$pair] ) ) {
					$startChar = $utfCanonicalComp[$pair];
					$lastHangul = 0;
					continue;
				}
				if( $n >= $x1 && $n <= $x2 ) {
					# WARNING: Hangul code is painfully slow.
					# I apologize for this ugly, ugly code; however
					# performance is even more teh suck if we call
					# out to nice clean functions. Lookup tables are
					# marginally faster, but require a lot of space.
					#
					if( $c >= UTF8_HANGUL_VBASE &&
						$c <= UTF8_HANGUL_VEND &&
						$startChar >= UTF8_HANGUL_LBASE &&
						$startChar <= UTF8_HANGUL_LEND ) {
						#
						#$lIndex = utf8ToCodepoint( $startChar ) - UNICODE_HANGUL_LBASE;
						#$vIndex = utf8ToCodepoint( $c ) - UNICODE_HANGUL_VBASE;
						$lIndex = ord( $startChar{2} ) - 0x80;
						$vIndex = ord( $c{2}         ) - 0xa1;

						$hangulPoint = UNICODE_HANGUL_FIRST +
							UNICODE_HANGUL_TCOUNT *
							(UNICODE_HANGUL_VCOUNT * $lIndex + $vIndex);

						# Hardcode the limited-range UTF-8 conversion:
						$startChar = chr( $hangulPoint >> 12 & 0x0f | 0xe0 ) .
									 chr( $hangulPoint >>  6 & 0x3f | 0x80 ) .
									 chr( $hangulPoint       & 0x3f | 0x80 );
						$lastHangul = 0;
						continue;
					} elseif( $c >= UTF8_HANGUL_TBASE &&
							  $c <= UTF8_HANGUL_TEND &&
							  $startChar >= UTF8_HANGUL_FIRST &&
							  $startChar <= UTF8_HANGUL_LAST &&
							  !$lastHangul ) {
						# $tIndex = utf8ToCodepoint( $c ) - UNICODE_HANGUL_TBASE;
						$tIndex = ord( $c{2} ) - 0xa7;
						if( $tIndex < 0 ) $tIndex = ord( $c{2} ) - 0x80 + (0x11c0 - 0x11a7);

						# Increment the code point by $tIndex, without
						# the function overhead of decoding and recoding UTF-8
						#
						$tail = ord( $startChar{2} ) + $tIndex;
						if( $tail > 0xbf ) {
							$tail -= 0x40;
							$mid = ord( $startChar{1} ) + 1;
							if( $mid > 0xbf ) {
								$startChar{0} = chr( ord( $startChar{0} ) + 1 );
								$mid -= 0x40;
							}
							$startChar{1} = chr( $mid );
						}
						$startChar{2} = chr( $tail );

						# If there's another jamo char after this, *don't* try to merge it.
						$lastHangul = 1;
						continue;
					}
				}
			}
			$out .= $startChar;
			$out .= $combining;
			$startChar = $c;
			$combining = '';
			$lastClass = 0;
			$lastHangul = 0;
		}
		$out .= $startChar . $combining;
		return $out;
	}

	/**
	 * This is just used for the benchmark, comparing how long it takes to
	 * interate through a string without really doing anything of substance.
	 * @param $string string
	 * @return string
	 */
	static function placebo( $string ) {
		$len = strlen( $string );
		$out = '';
		for( $i = 0; $i < $len; $i++ ) {
			$out .= $string{$i};
		}
		return $out;
	}
}