std.uni

The std.uni module provides an implementation of fundamental Unicode algorithms and data structures. This doesn't include UTF encoding and decoding primitives, see std.utf.decode and std.utf.encode in std.utf for this functionality.

Category	Functions
Decode	byCodePoint byGrapheme decodeGrapheme graphemeStride
Comparison	icmp sicmp
Classification	isAlpha isAlphaNum isCodepointSet isControl isFormat isGraphical isIntegralPair isMark isNonCharacter isNumber isPrivateUse isPunctuation isSpace isSurrogate isSurrogateHi isSurrogateLo isSymbol isWhite
Normalization	NFC NFD NFKD NormalizationForm normalize
Decompose	decompose decomposeHangul UnicodeDecomposition
Compose	compose composeJamo
Sets	CodepointInterval CodepointSet InversionList unicode
Trie	codepointSetTrie CodepointSetTrie codepointTrie CodepointTrie toTrie toDelegate
Casing	asCapitalized asLowerCase asUpperCase isLower isUpper toLower toLowerInPlace toUpper toUpperInPlace
Utf8Matcher	isUtfMatcher MatcherConcept utfMatcher
Separators	lineSep nelSep paraSep
Building blocks	allowedIn combiningClass Grapheme

All primitives listed operate on Unicode characters and sets of characters. For functions which operate on ASCII characters and ignore Unicode characters, see std.ascii. For definitions of Unicode character, code point and other terms used throughout this module see the terminology section below.

The focus of this module is the core needs of developing Unicode-aware applications. To that effect it provides the following optimized primitives:

• Character classification by category and common properties: isAlpha, isWhite and others.
• Case-insensitive string comparison (sicmp, icmp).
• Converting text to any of the four normalization forms via normalize.
• Decoding (decodeGrapheme) and iteration (byGrapheme, graphemeStride) by user-perceived characters, that is by Grapheme clusters.
• Decomposing and composing of individual character(s) according to canonical or compatibility rules, see compose and decompose, including the specific version for Hangul syllables composeJamo and decomposeHangul.

It's recognized that an application may need further enhancements and extensions, such as less commonly known algorithms, or tailoring existing ones for region specific needs. To help users with building any extra functionality beyond the core primitives, the module provides:

• CodepointSet, a type for easy manipulation of sets of characters. Besides the typical set algebra it provides an unusual feature: a D source code generator for detection of code points in this set. This is a boon for meta-programming parser frameworks, and is used internally to power classification in small sets like isWhite.
• A way to construct optimal packed multi-stage tables also known as a special case of Trie. The functions codepointTrie, codepointSetTrie construct custom tries that map dchar to value. The end result is a fast and predictable Ο(1) lookup that powers functions like isAlpha and combiningClass, but for user-defined data sets.
• A useful technique for Unicode-aware parsers that perform character classification of encoded code points is to avoid unnecassary decoding at all costs. utfMatcher provides an improvement over the usual workflow of decode-classify-process, combining the decoding and classification steps. By extracting necessary bits directly from encoded code units matchers achieve significant performance improvements. See MatcherConcept for the common interface of UTF matchers.
• Generally useful building blocks for customized normalization: combiningClass for querying combining class and allowedIn for testing the Quick_Check property of a given normalization form.
• Access to a large selection of commonly used sets of code points. Supported sets include Script, Block and General Category. The exact contents of a set can be observed in the CLDR utility, on the property index page of the Unicode website. See unicode for easy and (optionally) compile-time checked set queries.

Synopsis

import std.uni;
void main()
{
    // initialize code point sets using script/block or property name
    // now 'set' contains code points from both scripts.
    auto set = unicode("Cyrillic") | unicode("Armenian");
    // same thing but simpler and checked at compile-time
    auto ascii = unicode.ASCII;
    auto currency = unicode.Currency_Symbol;

    // easy set ops
    auto a = set & ascii;
    assert(a.empty); // as it has no intersection with ascii
    a = set | ascii;
    auto b = currency - a; // subtract all ASCII, Cyrillic and Armenian

    // some properties of code point sets
    assert(b.length > 45); // 46 items in Unicode 6.1, even more in 6.2
    // testing presence of a code point in a set
    // is just fine, it is O(logN)
    assert(!b['$']);
    assert(!b['\u058F']); // Armenian dram sign
    assert(b['¥']);

    // building fast lookup tables, these guarantee O(1) complexity
    // 1-level Trie lookup table essentially a huge bit-set ~262Kb
    auto oneTrie = toTrie!1(b);
    // 2-level far more compact but typically slightly slower
    auto twoTrie = toTrie!2(b);
    // 3-level even smaller, and a bit slower yet
    auto threeTrie = toTrie!3(b);
    assert(oneTrie['£']);
    assert(twoTrie['£']);
    assert(threeTrie['£']);

    // build the trie with the most sensible trie level
    // and bind it as a functor
    auto cyrillicOrArmenian = toDelegate(set);
    auto balance = find!(cyrillicOrArmenian)("Hello ընկեր!");
    assert(balance == "ընկեր!");
    // compatible with bool delegate(dchar)
    bool delegate(dchar) bindIt = cyrillicOrArmenian;

    // Normalization
    string s = "Plain ascii (and not only), is always normalized!";
    assert(s is normalize(s));// is the same string

    string nonS = "A\u0308ffin"; // A ligature
    auto nS = normalize(nonS); // to NFC, the W3C endorsed standard
    assert(nS == "Äffin");
    assert(nS != nonS);
    string composed = "Äffin";

    assert(normalize!NFD(composed) == "A\u0308ffin");
    // to NFKD, compatibility decomposition useful for fuzzy matching/searching
    assert(normalize!NFKD("2¹⁰") == "210");
}

Terminology

The following is a list of important Unicode notions and definitions. Any conventions used specifically in this module alone are marked as such. The descriptions are based on the formal definition as found in chapter three of The Unicode Standard Core Specification.

Abstract character A unit of information used for the organization, control, or representation of textual data. Note that:

• When representing data, the nature of that data is generally symbolic as opposed to some other kind of data (for example, visual).
• An abstract character has no concrete form and should not be confused with a glyph.
• An abstract character does not necessarily correspond to what a user thinks of as a “character” and should not be confused with a Grapheme.
• The abstract characters encoded (see Encoded character) are known as Unicode abstract characters.
• Abstract characters not directly encoded by the Unicode Standard can often be represented by the use of combining character sequences.

Canonical decomposition The decomposition of a character or character sequence that results from recursively applying the canonical mappings found in the Unicode Character Database and these described in Conjoining Jamo Behavior (section 12 of Unicode Conformance). Canonical composition The precise definition of the Canonical composition is the algorithm as specified in Unicode Conformance section 11. Informally it's the process that does the reverse of the canonical decomposition with the addition of certain rules that e.g. prevent legacy characters from appearing in the composed result. Canonical equivalent Two character sequences are said to be canonical equivalents if their full canonical decompositions are identical. Character Typically differs by context. For the purpose of this documentation the term character implies encoded character, that is, a code point having an assigned abstract character (a symbolic meaning). Code point Any value in the Unicode codespace; that is, the range of integers from 0 to 10FFFF (hex). Not all code points are assigned to encoded characters. Code unit The minimal bit combination that can represent a unit of encoded text for processing or interchange. Depending on the encoding this could be: 8-bit code units in the UTF-8 (char), 16-bit code units in the UTF-16 (wchar), and 32-bit code units in the UTF-32 (dchar). Note that in UTF-32, a code unit is a code point and is represented by the D dchar type. Combining character A character with the General Category of Combining Mark(M).

• All characters with non-zero canonical combining class are combining characters, but the reverse is not the case: there are combining characters with a zero combining class.
• These characters are not normally used in isolation unless they are being described. They include such characters as accents, diacritics, Hebrew points, Arabic vowel signs, and Indic matras.

Combining class A numerical value used by the Unicode Canonical Ordering Algorithm to determine which sequences of combining marks are to be considered canonically equivalent and which are not. Compatibility decomposition The decomposition of a character or character sequence that results from recursively applying both the compatibility mappings and the canonical mappings found in the Unicode Character Database, and those described in Conjoining Jamo Behavior no characters can be further decomposed. Compatibility equivalent Two character sequences are said to be compatibility equivalents if their full compatibility decompositions are identical. Encoded character An association (or mapping) between an abstract character and a code point. Glyph The actual, concrete image of a glyph representation having been rasterized or otherwise imaged onto some display surface. Grapheme base A character with the property Grapheme_Base, or any standard Korean syllable block. Grapheme cluster Defined as the text between grapheme boundaries as specified by Unicode Standard Annex #29, Unicode text segmentation. Important general properties of a grapheme:

• The grapheme cluster represents a horizontally segmentable unit of text, consisting of some grapheme base (which may consist of a Korean syllable) together with any number of nonspacing marks applied to it.
• A grapheme cluster typically starts with a grapheme base and then extends across any subsequent sequence of nonspacing marks. A grapheme cluster is most directly relevant to text rendering and processes such as cursor placement and text selection in editing, but may also be relevant to comparison and searching.
• For many processes, a grapheme cluster behaves as if it was a single character with the same properties as its grapheme base. Effectively, nonspacing marks apply graphically to the base, but do not change its properties.

This module defines a number of primitives that work with graphemes: Grapheme, decodeGrapheme and graphemeStride. All of them are using extended grapheme boundaries as defined in the aforementioned standard annex.

Nonspacing mark A combining character with the General Category of Nonspacing Mark (Mn) or Enclosing Mark (Me). Spacing mark A combining character that is not a nonspacing mark.

Normalization

The concepts of canonical equivalent or compatibility equivalent characters in the Unicode Standard make it necessary to have a full, formal definition of equivalence for Unicode strings. String equivalence is determined by a process called normalization, whereby strings are converted into forms which are compared directly for identity. This is the primary goal of the normalization process, see the function normalize to convert into any of the four defined forms.

A very important attribute of the Unicode Normalization Forms is that they must remain stable between versions of the Unicode Standard. A Unicode string normalized to a particular Unicode Normalization Form in one version of the standard is guaranteed to remain in that Normalization Form for implementations of future versions of the standard.

The Unicode Standard specifies four normalization forms. Informally, two of these forms are defined by maximal decomposition of equivalent sequences, and two of these forms are defined by maximal composition of equivalent sequences.

• Normalization Form D (NFD): The canonical decomposition of a character sequence.
• Normalization Form KD (NFKD): The compatibility decomposition of a character sequence.
• Normalization Form C (NFC): The canonical composition of the canonical decomposition of a coded character sequence.
• Normalization Form KC (NFKC): The canonical composition of the compatibility decomposition of a character sequence

The choice of the normalization form depends on the particular use case. NFC is the best form for general text, since it's more compatible with strings converted from legacy encodings. NFKC is the preferred form for identifiers, especially where there are security concerns. NFD and NFKD are the most useful for internal processing.

Construction of lookup tables

The Unicode standard describes a set of algorithms that depend on having the ability to quickly look up various properties of a code point. Given the the codespace of about 1 million code points, it is not a trivial task to provide a space-efficient solution for the multitude of properties.

Common approaches such as hash-tables or binary search over sorted code point intervals (as in InversionList) are insufficient. Hash-tables have enormous memory footprint and binary search over intervals is not fast enough for some heavy-duty algorithms.

The recommended solution (see Unicode Implementation Guidelines) is using multi-stage tables that are an implementation of the Trie data structure with integer keys and a fixed number of stages. For the remainder of the section this will be called a fixed trie. The following describes a particular implementation that is aimed for the speed of access at the expense of ideal size savings.

Taking a 2-level Trie as an example the principle of operation is as follows. Split the number of bits in a key (code point, 21 bits) into 2 components (e.g. 15 and 8). The first is the number of bits in the index of the trie and the other is number of bits in each page of the trie. The layout of the trie is then an array of size 2^^bits-of-index followed an array of memory chunks of size 2^^bits-of-page/bits-per-element.

The number of pages is variable (but not less then 1) unlike the number of entries in the index. The slots of the index all have to contain a number of a page that is present. The lookup is then just a couple of operations - slice the upper bits, lookup an index for these, take a page at this index and use the lower bits as an offset within this page.

Assuming that pages are laid out consequently in one array at pages, the pseudo-code is:

auto elemsPerPage = (2 ^^ bits_per_page) / Value.sizeOfInBits;
pages[index[n >> bits_per_page]][n & (elemsPerPage - 1)];

Where if elemsPerPage is a power of 2 the whole process is a handful of simple instructions and 2 array reads. Subsequent levels of the trie are introduced by recursing on this notion - the index array is treated as values. The number of bits in index is then again split into 2 parts, with pages over 'current-index' and the new 'upper-index'.

For completeness a level 1 trie is simply an array. The current implementation takes advantage of bit-packing values when the range is known to be limited in advance (such as bool). See also BitPacked for enforcing it manually. The major size advantage however comes from the fact that multiple identical pages on every level are merged by construction.

The process of constructing a trie is more involved and is hidden from the user in a form of the convenience functions codepointTrie, codepointSetTrie and the even more convenient toTrie. In general a set or built-in AA with dchar type can be turned into a trie. The trie object in this module is read-only (immutable); it's effectively frozen after construction.

Unicode properties

This is a full list of Unicode properties accessible through unicode with specific helpers per category nested within. Consult the CLDR utility when in doubt about the contents of a particular set.

General category sets listed below are only accessible with the unicode shorthand accessor.

General category

Abb.	Long form	Abb.	Long form	Abb.	Long form
L	Letter	Cn	Unassigned	Po	Other_Punctuation
Ll	Lowercase_Letter	Co	Private_Use	Ps	Open_Punctuation
Lm	Modifier_Letter	Cs	Surrogate	S	Symbol
Lo	Other_Letter	N	Number	Sc	Currency_Symbol
Lt	Titlecase_Letter	Nd	Decimal_Number	Sk	Modifier_Symbol
Lu	Uppercase_Letter	Nl	Letter_Number	Sm	Math_Symbol
M	Mark	No	Other_Number	So	Other_Symbol
Mc	Spacing_Mark	P	Punctuation	Z	Separator
Me	Enclosing_Mark	Pc	Connector_Punctuation	Zl	Line_Separator
Mn	Nonspacing_Mark	Pd	Dash_Punctuation	Zp	Paragraph_Separator
C	Other	Pe	Close_Punctuation	Zs	Space_Separator
Cc	Control	Pf	Final_Punctuation	-	Any
Cf	Format	Pi	Initial_Punctuation	-	ASCII

Sets for other commonly useful properties that are accessible with unicode:

Common binary properties

Name	Name	Name
Alphabetic	Ideographic	Other_Uppercase
ASCII_Hex_Digit	IDS_Binary_Operator	Pattern_Syntax
Bidi_Control	ID_Start	Pattern_White_Space
Cased	IDS_Trinary_Operator	Quotation_Mark
Case_Ignorable	Join_Control	Radical
Dash	Logical_Order_Exception	Soft_Dotted
Default_Ignorable_Code_Point	Lowercase	STerm
Deprecated	Math	Terminal_Punctuation
Diacritic	Noncharacter_Code_Point	Unified_Ideograph
Extender	Other_Alphabetic	Uppercase
Grapheme_Base	Other_Default_Ignorable_Code_Point	Variation_Selector
Grapheme_Extend	Other_Grapheme_Extend	White_Space
Grapheme_Link	Other_ID_Continue	XID_Continue
Hex_Digit	Other_ID_Start	XID_Start
Hyphen	Other_Lowercase
ID_Continue	Other_Math

Below is the table with block names accepted by unicode.block. Note that the shorthand version unicode requires "In" to be prepended to the names of blocks so as to disambiguate scripts and blocks.

Blocks

Aegean Numbers	Ethiopic Extended	Mongolian
Alchemical Symbols	Ethiopic Extended-A	Musical Symbols
Alphabetic Presentation Forms	Ethiopic Supplement	Myanmar
Ancient Greek Musical Notation	General Punctuation	Myanmar Extended-A
Ancient Greek Numbers	Geometric Shapes	New Tai Lue
Ancient Symbols	Georgian	NKo
Arabic	Georgian Supplement	Number Forms
Arabic Extended-A	Glagolitic	Ogham
Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols	Gothic	Ol Chiki
Arabic Presentation Forms-A	Greek and Coptic	Old Italic
Arabic Presentation Forms-B	Greek Extended	Old Persian
Arabic Supplement	Gujarati	Old South Arabian
Armenian	Gurmukhi	Old Turkic
Arrows	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms	Optical Character Recognition
Avestan	Hangul Compatibility Jamo	Oriya
Balinese	Hangul Jamo	Osmanya
Bamum	Hangul Jamo Extended-A	Phags-pa
Bamum Supplement	Hangul Jamo Extended-B	Phaistos Disc
Basic Latin	Hangul Syllables	Phoenician
Batak	Hanunoo	Phonetic Extensions
Bengali	Hebrew	Phonetic Extensions Supplement
Block Elements	High Private Use Surrogates	Playing Cards
Bopomofo	High Surrogates	Private Use Area
Bopomofo Extended	Hiragana	Rejang
Box Drawing	Ideographic Description Characters	Rumi Numeral Symbols
Brahmi	Imperial Aramaic	Runic
Braille Patterns	Inscriptional Pahlavi	Samaritan
Buginese	Inscriptional Parthian	Saurashtra
Buhid	IPA Extensions	Sharada
Byzantine Musical Symbols	Javanese	Shavian
Carian	Kaithi	Sinhala
Chakma	Kana Supplement	Small Form Variants
Cham	Kanbun	Sora Sompeng
Cherokee	Kangxi Radicals	Spacing Modifier Letters
CJK Compatibility	Kannada	Specials
CJK Compatibility Forms	Katakana	Sundanese
CJK Compatibility Ideographs	Katakana Phonetic Extensions	Sundanese Supplement
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement	Kayah Li	Superscripts and Subscripts
CJK Radicals Supplement	Kharoshthi	Supplemental Arrows-A
CJK Strokes	Khmer	Supplemental Arrows-B
CJK Symbols and Punctuation	Khmer Symbols	Supplemental Mathematical Operators
CJK Unified Ideographs	Lao	Supplemental Punctuation
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A	Latin-1 Supplement	Supplementary Private Use Area-A
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B	Latin Extended-A	Supplementary Private Use Area-B
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C	Latin Extended Additional	Syloti Nagri
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D	Latin Extended-B	Syriac
Combining Diacritical Marks	Latin Extended-C	Tagalog
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols	Latin Extended-D	Tagbanwa
Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement	Lepcha	Tags
Combining Half Marks	Letterlike Symbols	Tai Le
Common Indic Number Forms	Limbu	Tai Tham
Control Pictures	Linear B Ideograms	Tai Viet
Coptic	Linear B Syllabary	Tai Xuan Jing Symbols
Counting Rod Numerals	Lisu	Takri
Cuneiform	Low Surrogates	Tamil
Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation	Lycian	Telugu
Currency Symbols	Lydian	Thaana
Cypriot Syllabary	Mahjong Tiles	Thai
Cyrillic	Malayalam	Tibetan
Cyrillic Extended-A	Mandaic	Tifinagh
Cyrillic Extended-B	Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols	Transport And Map Symbols
Cyrillic Supplement	Mathematical Operators	Ugaritic
Deseret	Meetei Mayek	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
Devanagari	Meetei Mayek Extensions	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended
Devanagari Extended	Meroitic Cursive	Vai
Dingbats	Meroitic Hieroglyphs	Variation Selectors
Domino Tiles	Miao	Variation Selectors Supplement
Egyptian Hieroglyphs	Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A	Vedic Extensions
Emoticons	Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B	Vertical Forms
Enclosed Alphanumerics	Miscellaneous Symbols	Yijing Hexagram Symbols
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement	Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows	Yi Radicals
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months	Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs	Yi Syllables
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement	Miscellaneous Technical
Ethiopic	Modifier Tone Letters

Below is the table with script names accepted by unicode.script and by the shorthand version unicode:

Scripts

Arabic	Hanunoo	Old_Italic
Armenian	Hebrew	Old_Persian
Avestan	Hiragana	Old_South_Arabian
Balinese	Imperial_Aramaic	Old_Turkic
Bamum	Inherited	Oriya
Batak	Inscriptional_Pahlavi	Osmanya
Bengali	Inscriptional_Parthian	Phags_Pa
Bopomofo	Javanese	Phoenician
Brahmi	Kaithi	Rejang
Braille	Kannada	Runic
Buginese	Katakana	Samaritan
Buhid	Kayah_Li	Saurashtra
Canadian_Aboriginal	Kharoshthi	Sharada
Carian	Khmer	Shavian
Chakma	Lao	Sinhala
Cham	Latin	Sora_Sompeng
Cherokee	Lepcha	Sundanese
Common	Limbu	Syloti_Nagri
Coptic	Linear_B	Syriac
Cuneiform	Lisu	Tagalog
Cypriot	Lycian	Tagbanwa
Cyrillic	Lydian	Tai_Le
Deseret	Malayalam	Tai_Tham
Devanagari	Mandaic	Tai_Viet
Egyptian_Hieroglyphs	Meetei_Mayek	Takri
Ethiopic	Meroitic_Cursive	Tamil
Georgian	Meroitic_Hieroglyphs	Telugu
Glagolitic	Miao	Thaana
Gothic	Mongolian	Thai
Greek	Myanmar	Tibetan
Gujarati	New_Tai_Lue	Tifinagh
Gurmukhi	Nko	Ugaritic
Han	Ogham	Vai
Hangul	Ol_Chiki	Yi

Below is the table of names accepted by unicode.hangulSyllableType.

Hangul syllable type

Abb.	Long form
L	Leading_Jamo
LV	LV_Syllable
LVT	LVT_Syllable
T	Trailing_Jamo
V	Vowel_Jamo

References

ASCII Table, Wikipedia, The Unicode Consortium, Unicode normalization forms, Unicode text segmentation Unicode Implementation Guidelines Unicode Conformance

Trademarks

Unicode(tm) is a trademark of Unicode, Inc.

License:

Boost License 1.0.

Authors:

Dmitry Olshansky

Source

std/uni.d

Standards:

Unicode v6.2

enum dchar lineSep

Constant code point (0x2028) - line separator.

enum dchar paraSep

Constant code point (0x2029) - paragraph separator.

enum dchar nelSep

Constant code point (0x0085) - next line.

template isCodepointSet(T)

Tests if T is some kind a set of code points. Intended for template constraints.

enum auto isIntegralPair(T, V = uint)

Tests if T is a pair of integers that implicitly convert to V. The following code must compile for any pair T:

(T x){ V a = x[0]; V b = x[1];}

The following must not compile:

(T x){ V c = x[2];}

alias CodepointSet = InversionList!(GcPolicy).InversionList

The recommended default type for set of code points. For details, see the current implementation: InversionList.

struct CodepointInterval

The recommended type of std.typecons.Tuple to represent [a, b) intervals of code points. As used in InversionList. Any interval type should pass isIntegralPair trait.

struct InversionList(SP = GcPolicy)

InversionList is a set of code points represented as an array of open-right [a, b) intervals (see CodepointInterval above). The name comes from the way the representation reads left to right. For instance a set of all values [10, 50), [80, 90), plus a singular value 60 looks like this:

10, 50, 60, 61, 80, 90

The way to read this is: start with negative meaning that all numbers smaller then the next one are not present in this set (and positive - the contrary). Then switch positive/negative after each number passed from left to right.

This way negative spans until 10, then positive until 50, then negative until 60, then positive until 61, and so on. As seen this provides a space-efficient storage of highly redundant data that comes in long runs. A description which Unicode character properties fit nicely. The technique itself could be seen as a variation on RLE encoding.

Sets are value types (just like int is) thus they are never aliased.

Example

auto a = CodepointSet('a', 'z'+1);
auto b = CodepointSet('A', 'Z'+1);
auto c = a;
a = a | b;
assert(a == CodepointSet('A', 'Z'+1, 'a', 'z'+1));
assert(a != c);

See also unicode for simpler construction of sets from predefined ones.

Memory usage is 8 bytes per each contiguous interval in a set. The value semantics are achieved by using the COW technique and thus it's not safe to cast this type to shared.

Note

It's not recommended to rely on the template parameters or the exact type of a current code point set in std.uni. The type and parameters may change when the standard allocators design is finalized. Use isCodepointSet with templates or just stick with the default alias CodepointSet throughout the whole code base.

pure this(Set)(Set set)

Constraints:
if (isCodepointSet!Set)

Construct from another code point set of any type.

pure this(Range)(Range intervals)

Constraints:
if (isForwardRange!Range && isIntegralPair!(ElementType!Range))

Construct a set from a forward range of code point intervals.

this()(uint[] intervals...)

Construct a set from plain values of code point intervals.

Examples:

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;

auto set = CodepointSet('a', 'z'+1, 'а', 'я'+1);
foreach (v; 'a'..'z'+1)
    assert(set[v]);
// Cyrillic lowercase interval
foreach (v; 'а'..'я'+1)
    assert(set[v]);
//specific order is not required, intervals may interesect
auto set2 = CodepointSet('а', 'я'+1, 'a', 'd', 'b', 'z'+1);
//the same end result
assert(set2.byInterval.equal(set.byInterval));

@property auto byInterval()

Get range that spans all of the code point intervals in this InversionList.

Example

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;
import std.typecons : tuple;

auto set = CodepointSet('A', 'D'+1, 'a', 'd'+1);

assert(set.byInterval.equal([tuple('A','E'), tuple('a','e')]));

const bool opIndex(uint val)

Tests the presence of code point val in this set.

Examples:

auto gothic = unicode.Gothic;
// Gothic letter ahsa
assert(gothic['\U00010330']);
// no ascii in Gothic obviously
assert(!gothic['$']);

@property size_t length()

Number of code points in this set

This opBinary(string op, U)(U rhs)

Constraints:
if (isCodepointSet!U || is(U : dchar))

Sets support natural syntax for set algebra, namely:

Operator	Math notation	Description
&	a ∩ b	intersection
|	a ∪ b	union
-	a ∖ b	subtraction
~	a ~ b	symmetric set difference i.e. (a ∪ b) \ (a ∩ b)

Examples:

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;
import std.range : iota;

auto lower = unicode.LowerCase;
auto upper = unicode.UpperCase;
auto ascii = unicode.ASCII;

assert((lower & upper).empty); // no intersection
auto lowerASCII = lower & ascii;
assert(lowerASCII.byCodepoint.equal(iota('a', 'z'+1)));
// throw away all of the lowercase ASCII
writeln((ascii - lower).length); // 128 - 26

auto onlyOneOf = lower ~ ascii;
assert(!onlyOneOf['Δ']); // not ASCII and not lowercase
assert(onlyOneOf['$']); // ASCII and not lowercase
assert(!onlyOneOf['a']); // ASCII and lowercase
assert(onlyOneOf['я']); // not ASCII but lowercase

// throw away all cased letters from ASCII
auto noLetters = ascii - (lower | upper);
writeln(noLetters.length); // 128 - 26 * 2

ref This opOpAssign(string op, U)(U rhs)

Constraints:
if (isCodepointSet!U || is(U : dchar))

The 'op=' versions of the above overloaded operators.

const bool opBinaryRight(string op : "in", U)(U ch)

Constraints:
if (is(U : dchar))

Tests the presence of codepoint ch in this set, the same as opIndex.

Examples:

assert('я' in unicode.Cyrillic);
assert(!('z' in unicode.Cyrillic));

auto opUnary(string op : "!")()

Obtains a set that is the inversion of this set.

See Also:

inverted

@property auto byCodepoint()

A range that spans each code point in this set.

Examples:

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;
import std.range : iota;

auto set = unicode.ASCII;
set.byCodepoint.equal(iota(0, 0x80));

void toString(Writer)(scope Writer sink, FormatSpec!char fmt)

Obtain a textual representation of this InversionList in form of open-right intervals.

The formatting flag is applied individually to each value, for example:

%s and %d format the intervals as a [low .. high) range of integrals

%x formats the intervals as a [low .. high) range of lowercase hex characters

%X formats the intervals as a [low .. high) range of uppercase hex characters

Examples:

import std.conv : to;
import std.format : format;
import std.uni : unicode;

assert(unicode.Cyrillic.to!string ==
    "[1024..1157) [1159..1320) [7467..7468) [7544..7545) [11744..11776) [42560..42648) [42655..42656)");

// The specs '%s' and '%d' are equivalent to the to!string call above.
writeln(format("%d", unicode.Cyrillic)); // unicode.Cyrillic.to!string

assert(format("%#x", unicode.Cyrillic) ==
    "[0x400..0x485) [0x487..0x528) [0x1d2b..0x1d2c) [0x1d78..0x1d79) [0x2de0..0x2e00) "
    ~"[0xa640..0xa698) [0xa69f..0xa6a0)");

assert(format("%#X", unicode.Cyrillic) ==
    "[0X400..0X485) [0X487..0X528) [0X1D2B..0X1D2C) [0X1D78..0X1D79) [0X2DE0..0X2E00) "
    ~"[0XA640..0XA698) [0XA69F..0XA6A0)");

ref auto add()(uint a, uint b)

Add an interval [a, b) to this set.

Examples:

CodepointSet someSet;
someSet.add('0', '5').add('A','Z'+1);
someSet.add('5', '9'+1);
assert(someSet['0']);
assert(someSet['5']);
assert(someSet['9']);
assert(someSet['Z']);

@property auto inverted()

Obtains a set that is the inversion of this set.

See the '!' opUnary for the same but using operators.

Examples:

auto set = unicode.ASCII;
// union with the inverse gets all of the code points in the Unicode
writeln((set | set.inverted).length); // 0x110000
// no intersection with the inverse
assert((set & set.inverted).empty);

string toSourceCode(string funcName = "")

Generates string with D source code of unary function with name of funcName taking a single dchar argument. If funcName is empty the code is adjusted to be a lambda function.

The function generated tests if the code point passed belongs to this set or not. The result is to be used with string mixin. The intended usage area is aggressive optimization via meta programming in parser generators and the like.

Note

Use with care for relatively small or regular sets. It could end up being slower then just using multi-staged tables.

Example

import std.stdio;

// construct set directly from [a, b$RPAREN intervals
auto set = CodepointSet(10, 12, 45, 65, 100, 200);
writeln(set);
writeln(set.toSourceCode("func"));

The above outputs something along the lines of:

bool func(dchar ch)  @safe pure nothrow @nogc
{
    if (ch < 45)
    {
        if (ch == 10 || ch == 11) return true;
        return false;
    }
    else if (ch < 65) return true;
    else
    {
        if (ch < 100) return false;
        if (ch < 200) return true;
        return false;
    }
}

const @property bool empty()

True if this set doesn't contain any code points.

Examples:

CodepointSet emptySet;
writeln(emptySet.length); // 0
assert(emptySet.empty);

template codepointSetTrie(sizes...) if (sumOfIntegerTuple!sizes == 21)

A shorthand for creating a custom multi-level fixed Trie from a CodepointSet. sizes are numbers of bits per level, with the most significant bits used first.

Note

The sum of sizes must be equal 21.

See Also:

toTrie, which is even simpler.

Example

{
    import std.stdio;
    auto set = unicode("Number");
    auto trie = codepointSetTrie!(8, 5, 8)(set);
    writeln("Input code points to test:");
    foreach (line; stdin.byLine)
    {
        int count=0;
        foreach (dchar ch; line)
            if (trie[ch])// is number
                count++;
        writefln("Contains %d number code points.", count);
    }
}

template CodepointSetTrie(sizes...) if (sumOfIntegerTuple!sizes == 21)

Type of Trie generated by codepointSetTrie function.

template codepointTrie(T, sizes...) if (sumOfIntegerTuple!sizes == 21)

A slightly more general tool for building fixed Trie for the Unicode data.

Specifically unlike codepointSetTrie it's allows creating mappings of dchar to an arbitrary type T.

Note

Overload taking CodepointSets will naturally convert only to bool mapping Tries.

template CodepointTrie(T, sizes...) if (sumOfIntegerTuple!sizes == 21)

Type of Trie as generated by codepointTrie function.

struct MatcherConcept

Conceptual type that outlines the common properties of all UTF Matchers.

Note

For illustration purposes only, every method call results in assertion failure. Use utfMatcher to obtain a concrete matcher for UTF-8 or UTF-16 encodings.

bool match(Range)(ref Range inp)
bool skip(Range)(ref Range inp)
bool test(Range)(ref Range inp)

Constraints:
if (isRandomAccessRange!Range && is(ElementType!Range : char))
if (isRandomAccessRange!Range && is(ElementType!Range : char))
if (isRandomAccessRange!Range && is(ElementType!Range : char))

Perform a semantic equivalent 2 operations: decoding a code point at front of inp and testing if it belongs to the set of code points of this matcher.

The effect on inp depends on the kind of function called:

Match. If the codepoint is found in the set then range inp is advanced by its size in code units, otherwise the range is not modifed.

Skip. The range is always advanced by the size of the tested code point regardless of the result of test.

Test. The range is left unaffected regardless of the result of test.

Examples:

string truth = "2² = 4";
auto m = utfMatcher!char(unicode.Number);
assert(m.match(truth)); // '2' is a number all right
assert(truth == "² = 4"); // skips on match
assert(m.match(truth)); // so is the superscript '2'
assert(!m.match(truth)); // space is not a number
assert(truth == " = 4"); // unaffected on no match
assert(!m.skip(truth)); // same test ...
assert(truth == "= 4"); // but skips a codepoint regardless
assert(!m.test(truth)); // '=' is not a number
assert(truth == "= 4"); // test never affects argument

@property auto subMatcher(Lengths...)()

Advanced feature - provide direct access to a subset of matcher based a set of known encoding lengths. Lengths are provided in code units. The sub-matcher then may do less operations per any test/match.

Use with care as the sub-matcher won't match any code points that have encoded length that doesn't belong to the selected set of lengths. Also the sub-matcher object references the parent matcher and must not be used past the liftetime of the latter.

Another caveat of using sub-matcher is that skip is not available preciesly because sub-matcher doesn't detect all lengths.

enum auto isUtfMatcher(M, C)

Test if M is an UTF Matcher for ranges of Char.

@trusted auto utfMatcher(Char, Set)(Set set)

Constraints:
if (isCodepointSet!Set)

Constructs a matcher object to classify code points from the set for encoding that has Char as code unit.

See MatcherConcept for API outline.

auto toTrie(size_t level, Set)(Set set)

Constraints:
if (isCodepointSet!Set)

Convenience function to construct optimal configurations for packed Trie from any set of code points.

The parameter level indicates the number of trie levels to use, allowed values are: 1, 2, 3 or 4. Levels represent different trade-offs speed-size wise.

Level 1 is fastest and the most memory hungry (a bit array).

Level 4 is the slowest and has the smallest footprint.

See the Synopsis section for example.

Note

Level 4 stays very practical (being faster and more predictable) compared to using direct lookup on the set itself.

auto toDelegate(Set)(Set set)

Constraints:
if (isCodepointSet!Set)

Builds a Trie with typically optimal speed-size trade-off and wraps it into a delegate of the following type: bool delegate(dchar ch).

Effectively this creates a 'tester' lambda suitable for algorithms like std.algorithm.find that take unary predicates.

See the Synopsis section for example.

struct unicode

A single entry point to lookup Unicode code point sets by name or alias of a block, script or general category.

It uses well defined standard rules of property name lookup. This includes fuzzy matching of names, so that 'White_Space', 'white-SpAce' and 'whitespace' are all considered equal and yield the same set of white space characters.

pure @property auto opDispatch(string name)()

Performs the lookup of set of code points with compile-time correctness checking. This short-cut version combines 3 searches: across blocks, scripts, and common binary properties.

Note that since scripts and blocks overlap the usual trick to disambiguate is used - to get a block use unicode.InBlockName, to search a script use unicode.ScriptName.

See Also:

block, script and (not included in this search) hangulSyllableType.

auto opCall(C)(in C[] name)

Constraints:
if (is(C : dchar))

The same lookup across blocks, scripts, or binary properties, but performed at run-time. This version is provided for cases where name is not known beforehand; otherwise compile-time checked opDispatch is typically a better choice.

See the table of properties for available sets.

struct block

Narrows down the search for sets of code points to all Unicode blocks.

Note

Here block names are unambiguous as no scripts are searched and thus to search use simply unicode.block.BlockName notation.

See table of properties for available sets.

See Also:

table of properties.

Examples:

// use .block for explicitness
writeln(unicode.block.Greek_and_Coptic); // unicode.InGreek_and_Coptic

struct script

Narrows down the search for sets of code points to all Unicode scripts.

See the table of properties for available sets.

Examples:

auto arabicScript = unicode.script.arabic;
auto arabicBlock = unicode.block.arabic;
// there is an intersection between script and block
assert(arabicBlock['؁']);
assert(arabicScript['؁']);
// but they are different
assert(arabicBlock != arabicScript);
writeln(arabicBlock); // unicode.inArabic
writeln(arabicScript); // unicode.arabic

struct hangulSyllableType

Fetch a set of code points that have the given hangul syllable type.

Other non-binary properties (once supported) follow the same notation - unicode.propertyName.propertyValue for compile-time checked access and unicode.propertyName(propertyValue) for run-time checked one.

See the table of properties for available sets.

Examples:

// L here is syllable type not Letter as in unicode.L short-cut
auto leadingVowel = unicode.hangulSyllableType("L");
// check that some leading vowels are present
foreach (vowel; '\u1110'..'\u115F')
    assert(leadingVowel[vowel]);
writeln(leadingVowel); // unicode.hangulSyllableType.L

size_t graphemeStride(C)(in C[] input, size_t index)

Constraints:
if (is(C : dchar))

Computes the length of grapheme cluster starting at index. Both the resulting length and the index are measured in code units.

Parameters:

C	type that is implicitly convertible to dchars
C[] input	array of grapheme clusters
size_t index	starting index into input[]

Returns:

length of grapheme cluster

Examples:

writeln(graphemeStride("  ", 1)); // 1
// A + combing ring above
string city = "A\u030Arhus";
size_t first = graphemeStride(city, 0);
assert(first == 3); //\u030A has 2 UTF-8 code units
writeln(city[0 .. first]); // "A\u030A"
writeln(city[first .. $]); // "rhus"

Grapheme decodeGrapheme(Input)(ref Input inp)

Constraints:
if (isInputRange!Input && is(Unqual!(ElementType!Input) == dchar))

Reads one full grapheme cluster from an input range of dchar inp.

For examples see the Grapheme below.

Note

This function modifies inp and thus inp must be an L-value.

auto byGrapheme(Range)(Range range)

Constraints:
if (isInputRange!Range && is(Unqual!(ElementType!Range) == dchar))

Iterate a string by grapheme.

Useful for doing string manipulation that needs to be aware of graphemes.

See Also:

byCodePoint

Examples:

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;
import std.range.primitives : walkLength;
import std.range : take, drop;
auto text = "noe\u0308l"; // noël using e + combining diaeresis
assert(text.walkLength == 5); // 5 code points

auto gText = text.byGrapheme;
assert(gText.walkLength == 4); // 4 graphemes

assert(gText.take(3).equal("noe\u0308".byGrapheme));
assert(gText.drop(3).equal("l".byGrapheme));

auto byCodePoint(Range)(Range range)
Range byCodePoint(Range)(Range range)

Constraints:
if (isInputRange!Range && is(Unqual!(ElementType!Range) == Grapheme))
if (isInputRange!Range && is(Unqual!(ElementType!Range) == dchar))

Lazily transform a range of Graphemes to a range of code points.

Useful for converting the result to a string after doing operations on graphemes.

Acts as the identity function when given a range of code points.

Examples:

import std.array : array;
import std.conv : text;
import std.range : retro;

string s = "noe\u0308l"; // noël

// reverse it and convert the result to a string
string reverse = s.byGrapheme
    .array
    .retro
    .byCodePoint
    .text;

assert(reverse == "le\u0308on"); // lëon

struct Grapheme

A structure designed to effectively pack characters of a grapheme cluster.

Grapheme has value semantics so 2 copies of a Grapheme always refer to distinct objects. In most actual scenarios a Grapheme fits on the stack and avoids memory allocation overhead for all but quite long clusters.

See Also:

decodeGrapheme, graphemeStride

this(C)(in C[] chars...)
this(Input)(Input seq)

Constraints:
if (is(C : dchar))
if (!isDynamicArray!Input && isInputRange!Input && is(ElementType!Input : dchar))

Ctor

const pure nothrow @nogc @trusted dchar opIndex(size_t index)

Gets a code point at the given index in this cluster.

pure nothrow @nogc @trusted void opIndexAssign(dchar ch, size_t index)

Writes a code point ch at given index in this cluster.

Warning

Use of this facility may invalidate grapheme cluster, see also Grapheme.valid.

Examples:

auto g = Grapheme("A\u0302");
writeln(g[0]); // 'A'
assert(g.valid);
g[1] = '~'; // ASCII tilda is not a combining mark
writeln(g[1]); // '~'
assert(!g.valid);

pure nothrow @nogc @system SliceOverIndexed!Grapheme opSlice(size_t a, size_t b)
pure nothrow @nogc @system SliceOverIndexed!Grapheme opSlice()

Random-access range over Grapheme's characters.

Warning

Invalidates when this Grapheme leaves the scope, attempts to use it then would lead to memory corruption.

const pure nothrow @nogc @property @trusted size_t length()

Grapheme cluster length in code points.

ref auto opOpAssign(string op)(dchar ch)

Append character ch to this grapheme.

Warning

Use of this facility may invalidate grapheme cluster, see also valid.

See Also:

Grapheme.valid

Examples:

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;
auto g = Grapheme("A");
assert(g.valid);
g ~= '\u0301';
assert(g[].equal("A\u0301"));
assert(g.valid);
g ~= "B";
// not a valid grapheme cluster anymore
assert(!g.valid);
// still could be useful though
assert(g[].equal("A\u0301B"));

ref auto opOpAssign(string op, Input)(Input inp)

Constraints:
if (isInputRange!Input && is(ElementType!Input : dchar))

Append all characters from the input range inp to this Grapheme.

@property bool valid()()

True if this object contains valid extended grapheme cluster. Decoding primitives of this module always return a valid Grapheme.

Appending to and direct manipulation of grapheme's characters may render it no longer valid. Certain applications may chose to use Grapheme as a "small string" of any code points and ignore this property entirely.

int sicmp(S1, S2)(S1 r1, S2 r2)

Constraints:
if (isInputRange!S1 && isSomeChar!(ElementEncodingType!S1) && isInputRange!S2 && isSomeChar!(ElementEncodingType!S2))

Does basic case-insensitive comparison of r1 and r2. This function uses simpler comparison rule thus achieving better performance than icmp. However keep in mind the warning below.

Parameters:

S1 r1	an input range of characters
S2 r2	an input range of characters

Returns:

An int that is 0 if the strings match, <0 if r1 is lexicographically "less" than r2, >0 if r1 is lexicographically "greater" than r2

Warning

This function only handles 1:1 code point mapping and thus is not sufficient for certain alphabets like German, Greek and few others.

See Also:

icmp std.algorithm.comparison.cmp

Examples:

writeln(sicmp("Август", "авгусТ")); // 0
// Greek also works as long as there is no 1:M mapping in sight
writeln(sicmp("ΌΎ", "όύ")); // 0
// things like the following won't get matched as equal
// Greek small letter iota with dialytika and tonos
assert(sicmp("ΐ", "\u03B9\u0308\u0301") != 0);

// while icmp has no problem with that
writeln(icmp("ΐ", "\u03B9\u0308\u0301")); // 0
writeln(icmp("ΌΎ", "όύ")); // 0

int icmp(S1, S2)(S1 r1, S2 r2)

Constraints:
if (isForwardRange!S1 && isSomeChar!(ElementEncodingType!S1) && isForwardRange!S2 && isSomeChar!(ElementEncodingType!S2))

Does case insensitive comparison of r1 and r2. Follows the rules of full case-folding mapping. This includes matching as equal german ß with "ss" and other 1:M code point mappings unlike sicmp. The cost of icmp being pedantically correct is slightly worse performance.

Parameters:

S1 r1	a forward range of characters
S2 r2	a forward range of characters

Returns:

An int that is 0 if the strings match, <0 if str1 is lexicographically "less" than str2, >0 if str1 is lexicographically "greater" than str2

See Also:

sicmp std.algorithm.comparison.cmp

Examples:

writeln(icmp("Rußland", "Russland")); // 0
writeln(icmp("ᾩ -> \u1F70\u03B9", "\u1F61\u03B9 -> ᾲ")); // 0

Examples:

By using std.utf.byUTF and its aliases, GC allocations via auto-decoding and thrown exceptions can be avoided, making icmp @safe @nogc nothrow pure.

import std.utf : byDchar;

writeln(icmp("Rußland".byDchar, "Russland".byDchar)); // 0
writeln(icmp("ᾩ -> \u1F70\u03B9".byDchar, "\u1F61\u03B9 -> ᾲ".byDchar)); // 0

pure nothrow @nogc @safe ubyte combiningClass(dchar ch)

Returns the combining class of ch.

Examples:

// shorten the code
alias CC = combiningClass;

// combining tilda
writeln(CC('\u0303')); // 230
// combining ring below
writeln(CC('\u0325')); // 220
// the simple consequence is that  "tilda" should be
// placed after a "ring below" in a sequence

enum UnicodeDecomposition: int

Unicode character decomposition type.

Canonical

Canonical decomposition. The result is canonically equivalent sequence.

Compatibility

Compatibility decomposition. The result is compatibility equivalent sequence.

Note

Compatibility decomposition is a lossy conversion, typically suitable only for fuzzy matching and internal processing.

pure nothrow @safe dchar compose(dchar first, dchar second)

Try to canonically compose 2 characters. Returns the composed character if they do compose and dchar.init otherwise.

The assumption is that first comes before second in the original text, usually meaning that the first is a starter.

Note

Hangul syllables are not covered by this function. See composeJamo below.

Examples:

writeln(compose('A', '\u0308')); // '\u00C4'
writeln(compose('A', 'B')); // dchar.init
writeln(compose('C', '\u0301')); // '\u0106'
// note that the starter is the first one
// thus the following doesn't compose
writeln(compose('\u0308', 'A')); // dchar.init

@safe Grapheme decompose(UnicodeDecomposition decompType = Canonical)(dchar ch)

Returns a full Canonical (by default) or Compatibility decomposition of character ch. If no decomposition is available returns a Grapheme with the ch itself.

Note

This function also decomposes hangul syllables as prescribed by the standard.

See Also:

decomposeHangul for a restricted version that takes into account only hangul syllables but no other decompositions.

Examples:

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;

writeln(compose('A', '\u0308')); // '\u00C4'
writeln(compose('A', 'B')); // dchar.init
writeln(compose('C', '\u0301')); // '\u0106'
// note that the starter is the first one
// thus the following doesn't compose
writeln(compose('\u0308', 'A')); // dchar.init

assert(decompose('Ĉ')[].equal("C\u0302"));
assert(decompose('D')[].equal("D"));
assert(decompose('\uD4DC')[].equal("\u1111\u1171\u11B7"));
assert(decompose!Compatibility('¹')[].equal("1"));

@safe Grapheme decomposeHangul(dchar ch)

Decomposes a Hangul syllable. If ch is not a composed syllable then this function returns Grapheme containing only ch as is.

Examples:

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;
assert(decomposeHangul('\uD4DB')[].equal("\u1111\u1171\u11B6"));

pure nothrow @nogc @safe dchar composeJamo(dchar lead, dchar vowel, dchar trailing = (dchar).init)

Try to compose hangul syllable out of a leading consonant (lead), a vowel and optional trailing consonant jamos.

On success returns the composed LV or LVT hangul syllable.

If any of lead and vowel are not a valid hangul jamo of the respective character class returns dchar.init.

Examples:

writeln(composeJamo('\u1111', '\u1171', '\u11B6')); // '\uD4DB'
// leaving out T-vowel, or passing any codepoint
// that is not trailing consonant composes an LV-syllable
writeln(composeJamo('\u1111', '\u1171')); // '\uD4CC'
writeln(composeJamo('\u1111', '\u1171', ' ')); // '\uD4CC'
writeln(composeJamo('\u1111', 'A')); // dchar.init
writeln(composeJamo('A', '\u1171')); // dchar.init

enum NormalizationForm: int

Enumeration type for normalization forms, passed as template parameter for functions like normalize.

NFCNFDNFKCNFKD

Shorthand aliases from values indicating normalization forms.

inout(C)[] normalize(NormalizationForm norm = NFC, C)(inout(C)[] input)

Returns input string normalized to the chosen form. Form C is used by default.

For more information on normalization forms see the normalization section.

Note

In cases where the string in question is already normalized, it is returned unmodified and no memory allocation happens.

Examples:

// any encoding works
wstring greet = "Hello world";
assert(normalize(greet) is greet); // the same exact slice

// An example of a character with all 4 forms being different:
// Greek upsilon with acute and hook symbol (code point 0x03D3)
writeln(normalize!NFC("ϓ")); // "\u03D3"
writeln(normalize!NFD("ϓ")); // "\u03D2\u0301"
writeln(normalize!NFKC("ϓ")); // "\u038E"
writeln(normalize!NFKD("ϓ")); // "\u03A5\u0301"

bool allowedIn(NormalizationForm norm)(dchar ch)

Tests if dchar ch is always allowed (Quick_Check=YES) in normalization form norm.

Examples:

// e.g. Cyrillic is always allowed, so is ASCII
assert(allowedIn!NFC('я'));
assert(allowedIn!NFD('я'));
assert(allowedIn!NFKC('я'));
assert(allowedIn!NFKD('я'));
assert(allowedIn!NFC('Z'));

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isWhite(dchar c)

Whether or not c is a Unicode whitespace character. (general Unicode category: Part of C0(tab, vertical tab, form feed, carriage return, and linefeed characters), Zs, Zl, Zp, and NEL(U+0085))

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isLower(dchar c)

Return whether c is a Unicode lowercase character.

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isUpper(dchar c)

Return whether c is a Unicode uppercase character.

auto asLowerCase(Range)(Range str)
auto asUpperCase(Range)(Range str)

Constraints:
if (isInputRange!Range && isSomeChar!(ElementEncodingType!Range) && !isConvertibleToString!Range)
if (isInputRange!Range && isSomeChar!(ElementEncodingType!Range) && !isConvertibleToString!Range)

Convert input range or string to upper or lower case.

Does not allocate memory. Characters in UTF-8 or UTF-16 format that cannot be decoded are treated as std.utf.replacementDchar.

Parameters:

Range str

string or range of characters

Returns:

an InputRange of dchars

See Also:

toUpper, toLower

Examples:

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;

assert("hEllo".asUpperCase.equal("HELLO"));

auto asCapitalized(Range)(Range str)

Constraints:
if (isInputRange!Range && isSomeChar!(ElementEncodingType!Range) && !isConvertibleToString!Range)

Capitalize input range or string, meaning convert the first character to upper case and subsequent characters to lower case.

Does not allocate memory. Characters in UTF-8 or UTF-16 format that cannot be decoded are treated as std.utf.replacementDchar.

Parameters:

Range str

string or range of characters

Returns:

an InputRange of dchars

See Also:

toUpper, toLower asUpperCase, asLowerCase

Examples:

import std.algorithm.comparison : equal;

assert("hEllo".asCapitalized.equal("Hello"));

pure @trusted void toLowerInPlace(C)(ref C[] s)

Constraints:
if (is(C == char) || is(C == wchar) || is(C == dchar))

Converts s to lowercase (by performing Unicode lowercase mapping) in place. For a few characters string length may increase after the transformation, in such a case the function reallocates exactly once. If s does not have any uppercase characters, then s is unaltered.

pure @trusted void toUpperInPlace(C)(ref C[] s)

Constraints:
if (is(C == char) || is(C == wchar) || is(C == dchar))

Converts s to uppercase (by performing Unicode uppercase mapping) in place. For a few characters string length may increase after the transformation, in such a case the function reallocates exactly once. If s does not have any lowercase characters, then s is unaltered.

pure nothrow @nogc @safe dchar toLower(dchar c)

If c is a Unicode uppercase character, then its lowercase equivalent is returned. Otherwise c is returned.

Warning

certain alphabets like German and Greek have no 1:1 upper-lower mapping. Use overload of toLower which takes full string instead.

pure @trusted S toLower(S)(S s)

Constraints:
if (isSomeString!S)

Returns a string which is identical to s except that all of its characters are converted to lowercase (by preforming Unicode lowercase mapping). If none of s characters were affected, then s itself is returned.

pure nothrow @nogc @safe dchar toUpper(dchar c)

If c is a Unicode lowercase character, then its uppercase equivalent is returned. Otherwise c is returned.

Warning

Certain alphabets like German and Greek have no 1:1 upper-lower mapping. Use overload of toUpper which takes full string instead.

toUpper can be used as an argument to std.algorithm.iteration.map to produce an algorithm that can convert a range of characters to upper case without allocating memory. A string can then be produced by using std.algorithm.mutation.copy to send it to an std.array.appender.

Examples:

import std.algorithm.iteration : map;
import std.algorithm.mutation : copy;
import std.array : appender;

auto abuf = appender!(char[])();
"hello".map!toUpper.copy(&abuf);
writeln(abuf.data); // "HELLO"

pure @trusted S toUpper(S)(S s)

Constraints:
if (isSomeString!S)

Returns a string which is identical to s except that all of its characters are converted to uppercase (by preforming Unicode uppercase mapping). If none of s characters were affected, then s itself is returned.

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isAlpha(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode alphabetic character (general Unicode category: Alphabetic).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isMark(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode mark (general Unicode category: Mn, Me, Mc).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isNumber(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode numerical character (general Unicode category: Nd, Nl, No).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isAlphaNum(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode alphabetic character or number. (general Unicode category: Alphabetic, Nd, Nl, No).

Parameters:

dchar c

any Unicode character

Returns:

true if the character is in the Alphabetic, Nd, Nl, or No Unicode categories

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isPunctuation(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode punctuation character (general Unicode category: Pd, Ps, Pe, Pc, Po, Pi, Pf).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isSymbol(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode symbol character (general Unicode category: Sm, Sc, Sk, So).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isSpace(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode space character (general Unicode category: Zs)

Note

This doesn't include '\n', '\r', \t' and other non-space character. For commonly used less strict semantics see isWhite.

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isGraphical(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode graphical character (general Unicode category: L, M, N, P, S, Zs).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isControl(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode control character (general Unicode category: Cc).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isFormat(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode formatting character (general Unicode category: Cf).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isPrivateUse(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode Private Use code point (general Unicode category: Co).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isSurrogate(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode surrogate code point (general Unicode category: Cs).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isSurrogateHi(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode high surrogate (lead surrogate).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isSurrogateLo(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode low surrogate (trail surrogate).

pure nothrow @nogc @safe bool isNonCharacter(dchar c)

Returns whether c is a Unicode non-character i.e. a code point with no assigned abstract character. (general Unicode category: Cn)