Re: How to get Unicode's "General Category" of a character?
Re: How to get Unicode's "General Category" of a character?
- Subject: Re: How to get Unicode's "General Category" of a character?
- From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 20:10:23 +0700
> On 7 Jul 2015, at 19:33, Dmitry Markman <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> ICU’s
>
> u_charType
Looks exactly like what I need.
But: are the headers and the library on my Mac?
There is /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib which might contain u_charType, but I cannot find any headers (e.g. utypes.h).
Do I have to download the source from ICU?
Kind regards,
Gerriet.
>
>
>> On Jul 7, 2015, at 8:03 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Given a character (a Unicode code point, to be exact) like U+FF0B (FULLWIDTH PLUS SIGN), I want to know the General Category of this.
>> For this example it would be “Sm" (aka. Math_Symbol or Symbol, Math).
>>
>> I could download the current version of UnicodeData.txt and parse it.
>> But this looks not very efficient.
>>
>> For punctuation one could use NSCharacterSet punctuationCharacterSet.
>>
>> But for Math Symbols?
>>
>> I did look at CFStringTransform, which can give the Character name via kCFStringTransformToUnicodeName.
>>
>> But I cannot find anything for “General Category"
>>
>> NSRegularExpression can match for [\p{General_Category = Math_Symbol}]; not quite what I want, but better than nothing.
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Gerriet.
>>
>>
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