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8.9.1 Properties as objects – the object oriented API

The following type designates a property on Unicode characters.

Type: uc_property_t ¶

This data type denotes a boolean property on Unicode characters. It is an immediate type that can be copied by simple assignment, without involving memory allocation. It is not an array type.

Many Unicode properties are predefined.

The following are general properties.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_WHITE_SPACE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ALPHABETIC ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_ALPHABETIC ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_NOT_A_CHARACTER ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINT ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINT ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_DEPRECATED ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_LOGICAL_ORDER_EXCEPTION ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_VARIATION_SELECTOR ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PRIVATE_USE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_UNASSIGNED_CODE_VALUE ¶

The following properties are related to case folding.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_UPPERCASE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_UPPERCASE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_LOWERCASE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_LOWERCASE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_TITLECASE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CASED ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CASE_IGNORABLE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CHANGES_WHEN_LOWERCASED ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CHANGES_WHEN_UPPERCASED ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CHANGES_WHEN_TITLECASED ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CHANGES_WHEN_CASEFOLDED ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CHANGES_WHEN_CASEMAPPED ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_SOFT_DOTTED ¶

The following properties are related to identifiers.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ID_START ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_ID_START ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ID_CONTINUE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_ID_CONTINUE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_XID_START ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_XID_CONTINUE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ID_COMPAT_MATH_START ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ID_COMPAT_MATH_CONTINUE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PATTERN_WHITE_SPACE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PATTERN_SYNTAX ¶

The following properties have an influence on shaping and rendering.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_JOIN_CONTROL ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_GRAPHEME_BASE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_GRAPHEME_EXTEND ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_GRAPHEME_EXTEND ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_GRAPHEME_LINK ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_MODIFIER_COMBINING_MARK ¶

The following properties relate to bidirectional reordering.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_CONTROL ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_LEFT_TO_RIGHT ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_HEBREW_RIGHT_TO_LEFT ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_ARABIC_RIGHT_TO_LEFT ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_EUROPEAN_DIGIT ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_EUR_NUM_SEPARATOR ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_EUR_NUM_TERMINATOR ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_ARABIC_DIGIT ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_COMMON_SEPARATOR ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_BLOCK_SEPARATOR ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_SEGMENT_SEPARATOR ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_WHITESPACE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_NON_SPACING_MARK ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_BOUNDARY_NEUTRAL ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_PDF ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_EMBEDDING_OR_OVERRIDE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_OTHER_NEUTRAL ¶

The following properties deal with number representations.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_HEX_DIGIT ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ASCII_HEX_DIGIT ¶

The following properties deal with CJK.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_IDEOGRAPHIC ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_UNIFIED_IDEOGRAPH ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_RADICAL ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_IDS_UNARY_OPERATOR ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_IDS_BINARY_OPERATOR ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_IDS_TRINARY_OPERATOR ¶

The following properties deal with pictographic symbols.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EMOJI ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EMOJI_PRESENTATION ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EMOJI_MODIFIER ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EMOJI_MODIFIER_BASE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EMOJI_COMPONENT ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EXTENDED_PICTOGRAPHIC ¶

Other miscellaneous properties are:

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ZERO_WIDTH ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_SPACE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_NON_BREAK ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ISO_CONTROL ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_FORMAT_CONTROL ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PREPENDED_CONCATENATION_MARK ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_DASH ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_HYPHEN ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PUNCTUATION ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_LINE_SEPARATOR ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_QUOTATION_MARK ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_SENTENCE_TERMINAL ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_TERMINAL_PUNCTUATION ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CURRENCY_SYMBOL ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_MATH ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_MATH ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PAIRED_PUNCTUATION ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_LEFT_OF_PAIR ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_COMBINING ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_COMPOSITE ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_DECIMAL_DIGIT ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_NUMERIC ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_DIACRITIC ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EXTENDER ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_IGNORABLE_CONTROL ¶

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_REGIONAL_INDICATOR ¶

The following function looks up a property by its name.

Function: uc_property_t uc_property_byname (const char *property_name) ¶

Returns the property given by name, e.g. "White space". If a property with the given name exists, the result will satisfy the uc_property_is_valid predicate. Otherwise the result will not satisfy this predicate and must not be passed to functions that expect an uc_property_t argument.

This lookup ignores spaces, underscores, or hyphens as word separators, is case-insignificant, and supports the aliases listed in Unicode’s PropertyAliases.txt file.

This function references a big table of all predefined properties. Its use can significantly increase the size of your application.

Function: bool uc_property_is_valid (uc_property_t property) ¶

Returns true when the given property is valid, or false otherwise.

The following function views a property as a set of Unicode characters.

Function: bool uc_is_property (ucs4_t uc, uc_property_t property) ¶

Tests whether the Unicode character uc has the given property.