Specs

alphabetic?(codepoint_or_string()) :: boolean()

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> Unicode.alphabetic?(?a)
true

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

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

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

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

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

iex> Unicode.alphabetic?("龍王")
true

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

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