Namespace CType
Defined in: ilib-full-dyn.js.
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Provides a set of static routines that return information about characters.
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CType.withinRange(ch, rangeName)
Return whether or not the first character is within the named range
of Unicode characters.
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Namespace Detail
CType
Provides a set of static routines that return information about characters.
These routines emulate the C-library ctype functions. The characters must be
encoded in utf-16, as no other charsets are currently supported. Only the first
character of the given string is tested.
Method Detail
<static>
{boolean}
CType.withinRange(ch, rangeName)
Return whether or not the first character is within the named range
of Unicode characters. The valid list of range names are taken from
the Unicode 6.0 spec. Characters in all ranges of Unicode are supported,
including those supported in Javascript via UTF-16. Currently, this method
supports the following range names:
- ascii - basic ASCII
- latin - Latin, Latin Extended Additional, Latin Extended-C, Latin Extended-D
- armenian
- greek - Greek, Greek Extended
- cyrillic - Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended-A, Cyrillic Extended-B
- georgian - Georgian, Georgian Supplement
- glagolitic
- gothic
- ogham
- oldpersian
- runic
- ipa - IPA, Phonetic Extensions, Phonetic Extensions Supplement
- phonetic
- modifiertone - Modifier Tone Letters
- spacing
- diacritics
- halfmarks - Combining Half Marks
- small - Small Form Variants
- bamum - Bamum, Bamum Supplement
- ethiopic - Ethiopic, Ethiopic Extended, Ethiopic Extended-A
- nko
- osmanya
- tifinagh
- val
- arabic - Arabic, Arabic Supplement, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Arabic Presentation Forms-B
- carlan
- hebrew
- mandaic
- samaritan
- syriac
- mongolian
- phagspa
- tibetan
- bengali
- devanagari - Devanagari, Devanagari Extended
- gujarati
- gurmukhi
- kannada
- lepcha
- limbu
- malayalam
- meetaimayek
- olchiki
- oriya
- saurashtra
- sinhala
- sylotinagri - Syloti Nagri
- tamil
- telugu
- thaana
- vedic
- batak
- balinese
- buginese
- cham
- javanese
- kayahli
- khmer
- lao
- myanmar - Myanmar, Myanmar Extended-A
- newtailue
- rejang
- sundanese
- taile
- taitham
- taiviet
- thai
- buhld
- hanunoo
- tagalog
- tagbanwa
- bopomofo - Bopomofo, Bopomofo Extended
- cjk - the CJK unified ideographs (Han), CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D, Ideographic Description Characters (=isIdeo())
- cjkcompatibility - CJK Compatibility, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Forms, CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement
- cjkradicals - the CJK radicals, KangXi radicals
- hangul - Hangul Jamo, Hangul Syllables, Hangul Jamo Extended-A, Hangul Jamo Extended-B, Hangul Compatibility Jamo
- cjkpunct - CJK symbols and punctuation
- cjkstrokes - CJK strokes
- hiragana
- katakana - Katakana, Katakana Phonetic Extensions, Kana Supplement
- kanbun
- lisu
- yi - Yi Syllables, Yi Radicals
- cherokee
- canadian - Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended
- presentation - Alphabetic presentation forms
- vertical - Vertical Forms
- width - Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
- punctuation - General punctuation, Supplemental Punctuation
- box - Box Drawing
- block - Block Elements
- letterlike - Letterlike symbols
- mathematical - Mathematical alphanumeric symbols, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
- enclosedalpha - Enclosed alphanumerics, Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
- enclosedcjk - Enclosed CJK letters and months, Enclosed Ideographic Supplement
- cjkcompatibility - CJK compatibility
- apl - APL symbols
- controlpictures - Control pictures
- misc - Miscellaneous technical
- ocr - Optical character recognition (OCR)
- combining - Combining Diacritical Marks, Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols, Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement
- digits - ASCII digits (=isDigit())
- indicnumber - Common Indic Number Forms
- numbers - Number dorms
- supersub - Super- and subscripts
- arrows - Arrows, Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, Supplemental Arrows-A, Supplemental Arrows-B
- operators - Mathematical operators, supplemental mathematical operators
- geometric - Geometric shapes
- ancient - Ancient symbols
- braille - Braille patterns
- currency - Currency symbols
- dingbats
- gamesymbols
- yijing - Yijing Hexagram Symbols
- specials
- variations - Variation Selectors, Variation Selectors Supplement
- privateuse - Private Use Area, Supplementary Private Use Area-A, Supplementary Private Use Area-B
- supplementarya - Supplementary private use area-A
- supplementaryb - Supplementary private use area-B
- highsurrogates - High Surrogates, High Private Use Surrogates
- lowsurrogates
- reserved
- noncharacters
- Parameters:
- {string|IString|number} ch
- character or code point to examine
- {string} rangeName
- the name of the range to check
- Returns:
- {boolean} true if the first character is within the named range