<?php

/*

 * This file is part of SwiftMailer.

 * (c) 2004-2009 Chris Corbyn

 *

 * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE

 * file that was distributed with this source code.

 */

/**

 * Interface for all Encoder schemes.

 * @package Swift

 * @subpackage Encoder

 * @author Chris Corbyn

 */

interface Swift_Encoder extends Swift_Mime_CharsetObserver

{

  /**

   * Encode a given string to produce an encoded string.

   * @param string $string

   * @param int $firstLineOffset if first line needs to be shorter

   * @param int $maxLineLength - 0 indicates the default length for this encoding

   * @return string

   */

  public function encodeString($string, $firstLineOffset = 0,

    $maxLineLength = 0);

}