[Haskell-cafe] Valid Haskell characters

[Deborah Goldsmith]

You can't determine Unicode character properties by analyzing the  
names of the characters.

Read chapter 4 of the standard:
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch04.pdf

and get the property values here:
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/DerivedCoreProperties.txt

It sounds like the properties you want are "Case" and "General  
Category". Maybe the spec should be more explicit on exactly how the  
definitions map onto Unicode properties, so there is no ambiguity.

Deborah

On Aug 25, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Maurí cio wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In Haskell reference, I see the
> following definitions:
>
> uniWhite -> any Unicode character defined
> as whitespace;
>
> uniSmall -> any Unicode lowercase letter;
>
> uniLarge -> any uppercase or titlecase
> Unicode letter;
>
> uniSymbol -> any Unicode symbol or
> punctuation.
>
> Where do I get lists for those
> characters? My first attempt was to
> check:
>
> http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
>
> and consider large anything marked as
> CAPITAL and small anything marked as SMALL. I
> didn't know what to guess about the symbols.
> Am I using the right reference? How can I
> recognize (or get a list of) valid uppercase and
> lowercase unicode letters, as well as symbols
> and punctuation?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Maurício
>
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