haiku/docs/user/locale/UnicodeChar.dox
Adrien Destugues a8a3468a80 * Add documentation for the UnicodeChar class.
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/*!
\class BUnicodeChar
\ingroup locale
\brief Management of all information about characters.
This class provide a set of tools for managing the whole set of characters
defined in unicode. This include informations such as knowing if the character is
whitespace, if it is alphanumeric, or solething else ; what is the uppercase
equivalent of a character ; or wether it can be ornamented with accents.
This class consists entirely of static methods, which means you don't have to
instanciate it. Just call one of the methods with the char you want examinated.
Note all the function work with chars encoded in utf-32. This is not the most usual
way to handle characters, but it is the faster. To convert an utf-8 string to an
utf-32 character, pass it to the FromUTF8 function.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsAlpha(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is alphabetic.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsAlNum(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is alphanumeric.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsDigit(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the caracter is numeric.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsHexDigit(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is numeric in base 16.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsUpper(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is uppercase.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsLower(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is lowercase.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsSpace(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is space.
Unlike IsWhitespace, this function will return true for non-breakable
spaces. It is the one to use for determining if the character will render
as an empty space on screen and can be stretched to make the text look
nicer.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsWhitespace(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is whitespace.
Unlike IsSpace, this method will return false for non-breakable spaces.
It is the one to use for selecting where to insert line breaks.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsControl(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is a control character.
Example control characters are the non-printable ASCII characters 0 to 0x1F.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsPunctuation(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is a punctuation.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsPrintable(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is printable.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsTitle(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is title case.
Title case is usually a smaller version of upercase letters.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsDefined(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character is defined at all.
In unicode, some codes are not valid, or not attributed yet.
For these, this method wil lreturn false.
*/
/*!
\fn static bool BUnicodeChar::IsBase(uint32 c)
\brief Tell if the character can be used with a diacritic.
*/
/*!
\fn static int8 BUnicodeChar::Type(uint32 c)
\brief Returns the type of the character.
Return value is a member of the unicode_char_category enum.
*/
/*!
\fn static uint32 ToLower(uint32 c);
\brief Returns the lowercase version of a character.
*/
/*!
\fn static uint32 ToUpper(uint32 c);
\brief Returns the uppercase version of a character.
*/
/*!
\fn static uint32 ToTitle(uint32 c);
\brief Returns the titlecase version of a character.
*/
/*!
\fn static int32 DigitValue(uint32 c);
\brief Returns the numeric value of the character.
*/
/*!
\fn static void ToUTF8(uint32c, char ù**ou
\brief Convert a character to utf8 encoding.
*/
/*!
\fn static uint32 FromUTF8(const char** in)
\brief Convert an utf-8 string to an utf-32 character.
If the string contains multiple characters, only the fist one is used.
This function updates the in pointer so that it points on the next
character for the following call.
*/
/*!
\fn static uint32 FromUTF8(const char* in)
\brief Convert an utf<74>-8 string to an utf<74>-32 character.
If the string contains multiple characters, only the first one is used.
The in pointer is not modified.
*/
/*!
\fn static size_t UTF8StringLength(const char* str)
\brief This function counts the characters in the given null-terminated string.
\sa BString::CountChars()
*/
/*!
\fn static size_t UTF8StringLength(const char* str, size_t maxLength)
\brief This function counts the characters in the given string.
The string does not need to be null-terminated if you specify the length.
*/