CharacterClasses (linguistics 7.532.27 API)

java.lang.Object
- com.yahoo.language.process.CharacterClasses

```
public class CharacterClasses
extends Object
```
Determines the class of a given character. Use this rather than java.lang.Character.

Author:

bratseth

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

CharacterClasses()

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`isDigit(int c)`	Returns true for code points which should be considered digits - same as java.lang.Character.isDigit
`boolean`	`isLatin(int c)`	Returns true if this is a latin character
`boolean`	`isLatinDigit(int c)`	Returns true if this is a latin digit (other digits are not consistently parsed into numbers by Java)
`boolean`	`isLetter(int c)`	Returns true for code points which are letters in unicode 3 or 4, plus some additional characters which are useful to view as letters even though not defined as such in unicode.
`boolean`	`isLetterOrDigit(int c)`	Convenience, returns isLetter(c) \|\| isDigit(c)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - CharacterClasses
```
public CharacterClasses()
```
- Method Detail
  - isLetter
```
public boolean isLetter(int c)
```
    Returns true for code points which are letters in unicode 3 or 4, plus some additional characters which are useful to view as letters even though not defined as such in unicode.
  - isDigit
```
public boolean isDigit(int c)
```
    Returns true for code points which should be considered digits - same as java.lang.Character.isDigit
  - isLatinDigit
```
public boolean isLatinDigit(int c)
```
    Returns true if this is a latin digit (other digits are not consistently parsed into numbers by Java)
  - isLatin
```
public boolean isLatin(int c)
```
    Returns true if this is a latin character
  - isLetterOrDigit
```
public boolean isLetterOrDigit(int c)
```
    Convenience, returns isLetter(c) || isDigit(c)