The Package Wide_Characters.Handling
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# A.3.5 The Package Wide_Characters.Handling

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The package Wide_Characters.Handling provides operations for classifying Wide_Characters and case folding for Wide_Characters.

#### Static Semantics

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The library package Wide_Characters.Handling has the following declaration:
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package Ada.Wide_Characters.Handling is
pragma Pure(Handling);
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function Character_Set_Version return String;
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function Is_Control (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Letter (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Lower (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Upper (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Digit (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Decimal_Digit (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean
renames Is_Digit;
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function Is_Hexadecimal_Digit (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Alphanumeric (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Special (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Line_Terminator (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Mark (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Other_Format (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Punctuation_Connector (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Space (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function Is_Graphic (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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function To_Lower (Item : Wide_Character) return Wide_Character;
function To_Upper (Item : Wide_Character) return Wide_Character;
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function To_Lower (Item : Wide_String) return Wide_String;
function To_Upper (Item : Wide_String) return Wide_String;
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end Ada.Wide_Characters.Handling;
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The subprograms defined in Wide_Characters.Handling are locale independent.
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function Character_Set_Version return String;
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Returns an implementation-defined identifier that identifies the version of the character set standard that is used for categorizing characters by the implementation.
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function Is_Control (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as other_control; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Letter (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as letter_uppercase, letter_lowercase, letter_titlecase, letter_modifier, letter_other, or number_letter; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Lower (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as letter_lowercase; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Upper (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as letter_uppercase; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Digit (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as number_decimal; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Hexadecimal_Digit (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as number_decimal, or is in the range 'A' .. 'F' or 'a' .. 'f'; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Alphanumeric (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as letter_uppercase, letter_lowercase, letter_titlecase, letter_modifier, letter_other, number_letter, or number_decimal; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Special (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as graphic_character, but not categorized as letter_uppercase, letter_lowercase, letter_titlecase, letter_modifier, letter_other, number_letter, or number_decimal; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Line_Terminator (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as separator_line or separator_paragraph, or if Item is a conventional line terminator character (Line_Feed, Line_Tabulation, Form_Feed, Carriage_Return, Next_Line); otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Mark (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as mark_non_spacing or mark_spacing_combining; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Other_Format (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as other_format; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Punctuation_Connector (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as punctuation_connector; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Space (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as separator_space; otherwise returns False.
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function Is_Graphic (Item : Wide_Character) return Boolean;
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Returns True if the Wide_Character designated by Item is categorized as graphic_character; otherwise returns False.
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function To_Lower (Item : Wide_Character) return Wide_Character;
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Returns the Simple Lowercase Mapping as defined by documents referenced in the note in Clause 1 of ISO/IEC 10646:2011 of the Wide_Character designated by Item. If the Simple Lowercase Mapping does not exist for the Wide_Character designated by Item, then the value of Item is returned.
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function To_Lower (Item : Wide_String) return Wide_String;
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Returns the result of applying the To_Lower conversion to each Wide_Character element of the Wide_String designated by Item. The result is the null Wide_String if the value of the formal parameter is the null Wide_String. The lower bound of the result Wide_String is 1.
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function To_Upper (Item : Wide_Character) return Wide_Character;
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Returns the Simple Uppercase Mapping as defined by documents referenced in the note in Clause 1 of ISO/IEC 10646:2011 of the Wide_Character designated by Item. If the Simple Uppercase Mapping does not exist for the Wide_Character designated by Item, then the value of Item is returned.
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function To_Upper (Item : Wide_String) return Wide_String;
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Returns the result of applying the To_Upper conversion to each Wide_Character element of the Wide_String designated by Item. The result is the null Wide_String if the value of the formal parameter is the null Wide_String. The lower bound of the result Wide_String is 1.

#### Implementation Advice

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The string returned by Character_Set_Version should include either “10646:” or “Unicode”.
NOTES
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8 The results returned by these functions may depend on which particular version of the 10646 standard is supported by the implementation (see 2.1).
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9 The case insensitive equality comparison routines provided in A.4.10, “String Comparison” are also available for wide strings (see A.4.7).

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