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A.3.5 The Package Wide_Characters.Handling

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{AI05-0185-1} The package Wide_Characters.Handling provides operations for classifying Wide_Characters and case folding for Wide_Characters. 

Static Semantics

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{AI05-0185-1} The library package Wide_Characters.Handling has the following declaration:
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{AI05-0185-1} {AI05-0266-1} package Ada.Wide_Characters.Handling is
   pragma Pure(Handling);
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{AI05-0266-1}    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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{AI05-0185-1} The subprograms defined in Wide_Characters.Handling are locale independent.
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function Character_Set_Version return String;
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{AI05-0266-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} {AI05-0266-1} {AI05-0299-1} 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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Discussion: The case mappings come from Unicode as ISO/IEC 10646:2011 does not include case mappings (but rather references the Unicode ones as above). 
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function To_Lower (Item : Wide_String) return Wide_String;
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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} {AI05-0266-1} {AI05-0299-1} 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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{AI05-0185-1} 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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{AI05-0266-1} The string returned by Character_Set_Version should include either “10646:” or “Unicode”.
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Implementation Advice: The string returned by Wide_Characters.Handling.Character_Set_Version should include either “10646:” or “Unicode”.
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Discussion: The intent is that the returned string include the year for 10646 (as in "10646:2011"), and the version number for Unicode (as in "Unicode 6.0"). We don't try to specify that further so we don't need to decide how to represent Corrigenda for 10646, nor which of these is preferred. (Giving a Unicode version is more accurate, as the case folding and mapping rules always come from a Unicode version [10646 just tells one to look at Unicode to get those], and the character classifications ought to be the same for equivalent versions, but we don't want to talk about non-ISO standards in an ISO standard.) 
NOTES
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8  {AI05-0266-1} 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  {AI05-0286-1} The case insensitive equality comparison routines provided in A.4.10, “String Comparison” are also available for wide strings (see A.4.7). 

Extensions to Ada 2005

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{AI05-0185-1} {AI05-0266-1} The package Wide_Characters.Handling is new. 

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