Unicode.LineBreak (Unicode v2.0.0)

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Functions to introspect the Unicode line break property for binaries (Strings) and codepoints.

The primary API is line_break/1 which returns the line break property for a codepoint or the list of line break properties for a string.

The functions fetch/1, get/1 and count/1 provide introspection of the codepoint ranges associated with a given line break property. line_breaks/0, known_line_breaks/0 and aliases/0 return the underlying property data.

Summary

Functions

Returns a map of aliases for Unicode line breaks.

Returns the count of the number of characters for a given line break.

Returns the Unicode codepoint ranges for a given line break.

Returns the Unicode codepoint ranges for a given line break.

Returns a list of known Unicode line break names.

Returns the line break name(s) for the given binary or codepoint.

Returns the map of Unicode line breaks.

Functions

aliases()

Returns a map of aliases for Unicode line breaks.

An alias is an alternative name for referring to a line break. Aliases are resolved by the fetch/1 and get/1 functions.

Returns

  • A map with the alias as a string key and the line break name as an atom value.

Examples

iex> Unicode.LineBreak.aliases() |> Map.get("linefeed")
:lf

count(line_break)

Returns the count of the number of characters for a given line break.

Arguments

  • line_break is any line break name as an atom, or a string alias for a line break.

Returns

  • The number of codepoints that have the given line break.

  • :error if the line break name is not known.

Examples

iex> Unicode.LineBreak.count(:al)
26954

fetch(line_break)

Returns the Unicode codepoint ranges for a given line break.

Aliases are resolved by this function.

Arguments

  • line_break is any line break name as an atom, or a string alias for a line break.

Returns

  • {:ok, range_list} where range_list is a list of codepoint ranges as 2-tuples.

  • :error if the line break name is not known.

Examples

iex> Unicode.LineBreak.fetch(:lf)
{:ok, [{10, 10}]}

iex> Unicode.LineBreak.fetch(:invalid)
:error

get(line_break)

Returns the Unicode codepoint ranges for a given line break.

Aliases are resolved by this function.

Arguments

  • line_break is any line break name as an atom, or a string alias for a line break.

Returns

  • range_list which is a list of codepoint ranges as 2-tuples.

  • nil if the line break name is not known.

Examples

iex> Unicode.LineBreak.get(:lf)
[{10, 10}]

iex> Unicode.LineBreak.get(:invalid)
nil

known_line_breaks()

Returns a list of known Unicode line break names.

This function does not return the names of any line break aliases.

Returns

  • A list of line break names as atoms.

Examples

iex> Unicode.LineBreak.known_line_breaks() |> Enum.sort() |> Enum.take(3)
[:ai, :ak, :al]

line_break(string)

Returns the line break name(s) for the given binary or codepoint.

Arguments

  • codepoint_or_string is either an integer codepoint or a string.

Returns

  • In the case of a codepoint, a single line break name as an atom. Codepoints with no explicit line break property default to :xx.

  • In the case of a string, a list of the distinct line break names represented by the codepoints in the string.

Examples

iex> Unicode.LineBreak.line_break(?\n)
:lf

iex> Unicode.LineBreak.line_break("a b")
[:al, :sp]

line_breaks()

Returns the map of Unicode line breaks.

Returns

  • A map with the line break name as the key and a list of codepoint ranges as 2-tuples as the value.

Examples

iex> Unicode.LineBreak.line_breaks() |> Map.get(:lf)
[{10, 10}]