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+// (C) Copyright 2008 CodeRage, LLC (turkanis at coderage dot com)
+// (C) Copyright 2003-2007 Jonathan Turkanis
+// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
+// file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt.)
+
+// See http://www.boost.org/libs/iostreams for documentation.
+
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_TRANSLATE_INT_TYPE_HPP_INCLUDED
+#define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_TRANSLATE_INT_TYPE_HPP_INCLUDED
+
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1020)
+# pragma once
+#endif              
+
+#include <ndnboost/type_traits/is_same.hpp>
+
+namespace ndnboost { namespace iostreams { namespace detail {
+
+template<bool IsSame>
+struct translate_int_type_impl;
+
+//
+// Template name: translate_char.
+// Description: Translates a character or an end-of-file indicator from the 
+//      int_type of one character traits type to the int_type of another.
+//
+template<typename SourceTr, typename TargetTr>
+typename TargetTr::int_type 
+translate_int_type(typename SourceTr::int_type c) 
+{ 
+    typedef translate_int_type_impl<is_same<SourceTr, TargetTr>::value> impl;
+    return impl::template inner<SourceTr, TargetTr>::translate(c);
+}
+
+//----------------------------------------------------------------------------//
+
+template<>
+struct translate_int_type_impl<true> {
+    template<typename SourceTr, typename TargetTr>
+    struct inner {
+        static typename TargetTr::int_type 
+        translate(typename SourceTr::int_type c) { return c; }
+    };
+};
+
+template<>
+struct translate_int_type_impl<false> {
+    template<typename SourceTr, typename TargetTr>
+    struct inner {
+        static typename TargetTr::int_type 
+        translate(typename SourceTr::int_type c)
+            { 
+                return SourceTr::eq_int_type(SourceTr::eof()) ?
+                           TargetTr::eof() :
+                           TargetTr::to_int_type(SourceTr::to_char_type(c));
+            }
+    };
+};
+
+} } } // End namespaces detail, iostreams, boost.
+
+#endif // #ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_TRANSLATE_INT_TYPE_HPP_INCLUDED