Returns true if a single Unicode codepoint (or all characters in the given string) adhere to the Derived Core Property Alphabetic otherwise returns false.

These are all characters that are usually used as representations of letters/syllabes/ in words/sentences.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• true or false

For the string-version, the result will be true only if all codepoints in the string adhere to the property.

Examples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphabetic?(?a)
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphabetic?("A")
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphabetic?("Elixir")
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphabetic?("الإكسير")
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphabetic?("foo, bar") # comma and whitespace
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphabetic?("42")
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphabetic?("龍王")
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphabetic?("∑") # Summation, ∑
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphabetic?("Σ") # Greek capital letter sigma, Σ
true

Returns true if a single Unicode codepoint (or all characters in the given string) are either alphabetic?/1 or numeric?/1 otherwise returns false.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• true or false

For the string-version, the result will be true only if all codepoints in the string adhere to the property.

Examples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphanumeric? "1234"
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphanumeric? "KeyserSöze1995"
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphanumeric? "3段"
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.alphanumeric? "dragon@example.com"
false

Returns the block name of a codepoint or the list of block names for each codepoint in a string.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• in the case of a single codepoint, an atom block name

• in the case of a string, a list of atom block names for each codepoint in the codepoint_or_string

Exmaples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.block ?ä
:latin_1_supplement

iex> Cldr.Unicode.block ?A
:basic_latin

iex> Cldr.Unicode.block "äA"
[:latin_1_supplement, :basic_latin]

Returns either true if the codepoint has the :cased property or false.

The :cased property means that this character has at least an upper and lower representation and possibly a titlecase representation too.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• true or false

For the string-version, the result will be true only if all codepoints in the string adhere to the property.

Examples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.cased? ?ယ
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.cased? ?A
true

Returns the Unicode category for a codepoint or a list of categories for a string.

Argument

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• in the case of a single codepoint, an atom representing one of the categories listed below

• in the case of a string, a list representing the category for each codepoint in the string

Notes

THese categories match the names of the Unicode character classes used in various regular expression engine. The full list of categories is:

Note too that the group level categories like :L, :M, :S and so on are not assigned to any codepoint. They can only be identified by combining the results for each of the subsidiary categories.

Examples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.category ?ä
:Ll

iex> Cldr.Unicode.category ?A
:Lu

iex> Cldr.Unicode.category ?🧐
:So

iex> Cldr.Unicode.category ?+
:Sm

iex> Cldr.Unicode.category ?1
:Nd

iex> Cldr.Unicode.category "äA"
[:Ll, :Lu]

Returns true if a single Unicode codepoint (or all characters in the given string) adhere to Unicode category :Nd otherwise returns false.

This group of characters represents the decimal digits zero through nine (0..9) and the equivalents in non-Latin scripts.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• true or false

For the string-version, the result will be true only if all codepoints in the string adhere to the property.

For the string-version, the result will be true only if all codepoints in the string adhere to the property.

Examples

Returns true if a single Unicode codepoint (or all characters in the given string) are emoji otherwise returns false.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• true or false

For the string-version, the result will be true only if all codepoints in the string adhere to the property.

Examples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.emoji? "🧐🤓🤩🤩️🤯"
true

Returns true if a single Unicode codepoint (or all characters in the given string) the category :Ll otherwise returns false.

Notice that there are many languages that do not have a distinction between cases. Their characters are not included in this group.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• true or false

For the string-version, the result will be true only if all codepoints in the string adhere to the property.

Examples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.lowercase?(?a)
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.lowercase?("A")
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.lowercase?("Elixir")
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.lowercase?("léon")
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.lowercase?("foo, bar")
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.lowercase?("42")
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.lowercase?("Σ")
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.lowercase?("σ")
true

Returns true if a single Unicode codepoint (or all characters in the given string) the category :Sm otherwise returns false.

These are all characters whose primary usage is in mathematical concepts (and not in alphabets). Notice that the numerical digits are not part of this group.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• true or false

For the string-version, the result will be true only if all codepoints in the string adhere to the property.

Examples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.math?(?=)
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.math?("=")
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.math?("1+1=2") # Digits do not have the `:math` property.
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.math?("परिस")
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.math?("∑") # Summation, \u2211
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.math?("Σ") # Greek capital letter sigma, \u03a3
false

Returns true if a single Unicode codepoint (or all characters in the given string) adhere to Unicode categories :Nd, :Nl and :No otherwise returns false.

This group of characters represents the decimal digits zero through nine (0..9) and the equivalents in non-Latin scripts.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• true or false

For the string-version, the result will be true only if all codepoints in the string adhere to the property.

Examples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.numeric?("65535")
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.numeric?("42")
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.numeric?("lapis philosophorum")
false

Returns the list of properties of each codepoint in a given string or the list of properties for a given string.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• in the case of a single codepoint, an atom list of properties

• in the case of a string, a list of atom lisr for each codepoint in the codepoint_or_string

Exmaples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.properties 0x1bf0
[:alphabetic, :case_ignorable]

iex> Cldr.Unicode.properties ?A
[:alphabetic, :uppercase, :cased]

iex> Cldr.Unicode.properties ?+
[:math]

iex> Cldr.Unicode.properties "a1+"
[[:alphabetic, :lowercase, :cased], [:numeric, :emoji], [:math]]

Returns the script name of a codepoint or the list of block names for each codepoint in a string.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• in the case of a single codepoint, a string script name

• in the case of a string, a list of string script names for each codepoint in the codepoint_or_string

Exmaples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.script ?ä
"latin"

iex> Cldr.Unicode.script ?خ
"arabic"

iex> Cldr.Unicode.script ?अ
"devanagari"

iex> Cldr.Unicode.script ?א
"hebrew"

iex> Cldr.Unicode.script ?Ж
"cyrillic"

iex> Cldr.Unicode.script ?δ
"greek"

iex> Cldr.Unicode.script ?ก
"thai"

iex> Cldr.Unicode.script ?ယ
"myanmar"

Removes accents (diacritical marks) from a string.

Arguments

• string is any String.t

Returns

• A string with all diacritical marks removed

Notes

The string is first normalised to :nfd form and then all characters in the block :comnbining_diacritical_marks is removed from the string

Example

iex> Cldr.Unicode.unaccent("Et Ça sera sa moitié.")
"Et Ca sera sa moitie."

Returns true if a single Unicode codepoint (or all characters in the given string) the category :Lu otherwise returns false.

Notice that there are many languages that do not have a distinction between cases. Their characters are not included in this group.

Arguments

• codepoint_or_string is a single integer codepoint or a String.t.

Returns

• true or false

For the string-version, the result will be true only if all codepoints in the string adhere to the property.

Examples

iex> Cldr.Unicode.uppercase?(?a)
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.uppercase?("A")
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.uppercase?("Elixir")
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.uppercase?("CAMEMBERT")
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.uppercase?("foo, bar")
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.uppercase?("42")
false

iex> Cldr.Unicode.uppercase?("Σ")
true

iex> Cldr.Unicode.uppercase?("σ")
false

Returns the version of Unicode in Cldr.Unicode.