com.ibm.icu.lang
Class UCharacterCategory

java.lang.Object
  com.ibm.icu.lang.UCharacterCategory

All Implemented Interfaces:

UCharacterEnums.ECharacterCategory

public final class UCharacterCategory
extends Object
implements UCharacterEnums.ECharacterCategory

Enumerated Unicode category types from the UnicodeData.txt file. Used as return results from UCharacter Equivalent to icu's UCharCategory. Refer to Unicode Consortium for more information about UnicodeData.txt.

NOTE: the UCharacterCategory values are not compatible with those returned by java.lang.Character.getType. UCharacterCategory values match the ones used in ICU4C, while java.lang.Character type values, though similar, skip the value 17.

This class is not subclassable

Author:

Syn Wee Quek

Status:

Stable ICU 2.1.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.ibm.icu.lang.UCharacterEnums.ECharacterCategory

CHAR_CATEGORY_COUNT, COMBINING_SPACING_MARK, CONNECTOR_PUNCTUATION, CONTROL, CURRENCY_SYMBOL, DASH_PUNCTUATION, DECIMAL_DIGIT_NUMBER, ENCLOSING_MARK, END_PUNCTUATION, FINAL_PUNCTUATION, FINAL_QUOTE_PUNCTUATION, FORMAT, GENERAL_OTHER_TYPES, INITIAL_PUNCTUATION, INITIAL_QUOTE_PUNCTUATION, LETTER_NUMBER, LINE_SEPARATOR, LOWERCASE_LETTER, MATH_SYMBOL, MODIFIER_LETTER, MODIFIER_SYMBOL, NON_SPACING_MARK, OTHER_LETTER, OTHER_NUMBER, OTHER_PUNCTUATION, OTHER_SYMBOL, PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR, PRIVATE_USE, SPACE_SEPARATOR, START_PUNCTUATION, SURROGATE, TITLECASE_LETTER, UNASSIGNED, UPPERCASE_LETTER

Method Summary

static String

toString(int category) Gets the name of the argument category

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

toString

public static String toString(int category)

Gets the name of the argument category

Parameters:

category - to retrieve name

Returns:

category name

Status:

Stable ICU 2.1.