Enum ASCIICharacterDisplayInfo.CharacterSubtype

This enumeration maps the Subtype strings to fast, efficient, safe integer values that correspond to ten specialized groups of characters. These correspond roughly to the Unicode character categories.

Namespace: WizardWrx

Assembly: WizardWrx.ASCIIInfo.dll

Syntax

public enum CharacterSubtype : int

Fields

Name	Description
Control	These are the characters that have code point values between 1 and 31, most of which are device control characters that originally drove line printers.
Greek_Letter	Only a handful of characters, all of which fall into the Extended group, are specifically identified as letters of the Greek alphabet. Others may have been overlooked. If you find one of them, please submit a pull request or open an issue.
LC_Latin_1_Letter	Characters in this group represent the lower case letters of the Latin alphabet.
NULL	There is but one character in this subgroup, the ASCII NULL, sometimes called NUL, which has a numerical value of zero.
Numeral	These characters represent the Arabic numerals zero through nine.
Other_Letter	This large group represents latters and joined characters used in other Western alphabets.
Punctuation	Characters in this group are generally accepted as punctuation marks, of which one, the inverted question mark, belongs to the Extended group, owing to its high code point, 191.
Symbol	Characters in this group are a mixed bag of mathematical and other symbols.
UC_Latin_1_Letter	Characters in this group represent the upper case letters of the Latin alphabet.
Undefined	The value is uninitialized.
White_Space	White space is another tiny subgroup; it contains five code points, 32, the everyday SPACE character, 160, the nonbreaking Space, 8, the destructive backspace, 9, the horizontal tab, and 11, the vertical tab, only one of which, the regular space, is considered printable. The nonbreaking space, also printable, is classified as an extended character because its code point is greater than 127, while the rest fall into the group that is comprised otherwise of device control codes. Since that is their primary function, they belong in this group.