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CharacterBlock.javaAPI DocExample6493Sun Mar 28 19:08:50 BST 1999None

CharacterBlock

public class CharacterBlock extends Object

Fields Summary
String
name
int
start
int
end
private static Hashtable
blocks
Constructors Summary
private CharacterBlock(String name, int start, int end)

    this.name = name;
    if (start < Character.MIN_VALUE || start > Character.MAX_VALUE 
     || end < Character.MIN_VALUE || end > Character.MAX_VALUE) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Ranges must fall between 0 and 65,535");
    }
    if (end < start) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("End must come after start");
    }
    this.start = start;
    this.end = end;
Methods Summary
public static CharacterBlockgetBlock(java.lang.String name)

    return (CharacterBlock) blocks.get(name);
public static java.lang.String[]getBlockNames()

  
    CharacterBlock[] cb = new CharacterBlock[blocks.size()];
    Enumeration e = blocks.elements();
    for (int i = 0; e.hasMoreElements(); i++) {
      cb[i] = ((CharacterBlock) e.nextElement());
    }
    
    // bubble sort based on start
    boolean sorted = false;
    while (!sorted) {
      sorted = true;
      for (int i = 0; i < cb.length-1; i++) {
        if (cb[i].start > cb[i+1].start) {
          sorted = false;
          CharacterBlock temp = cb[i+1];
          cb[i+1] = cb[i];
          cb[i] = temp;
        }
      }
    }

    String[] names = new String[blocks.size()];
    for (int i = 0; i < names.length; i++) names[i] = cb[i].name;
    return names;
public char[]getCharactersInBlock()

  
    char[] block = new char[end-start+1];
    int j = 0;
    for (int i = start; i <= end; i++) {
      if (Character.isDefined((char) i)) {
        block[j++] = (char) i;
      }
    }
    char[] result = new char[j];
    System.arraycopy(block, 0, result, 0, j);
    return result;
public intgetEnd()

    return this.end;
public java.lang.StringgetName()

    return this.name;
public static intgetNumBlocks()

    return blocks.size();
public intgetStart()

    return this.start;
private static final voidmakeBlock(java.lang.String name, int start, int end)

  
  
  /* The blocks given here are as listed in The Unicode Standard,
     Version 2.0. Ranges are given in hexadecimal as in that
     document. It is not difficult to add additional blocks to this
     list as they're defined. 
  */
   

    // General Scripts
    makeBlock("Basic Latin", 0x0000, 0x007F);
    makeBlock("Latin-1 Supplement", 0x0080, 0x00FF);
    makeBlock("Latin Extended-A", 0x0100, 0x017F);
    makeBlock("Latin Extended-B", 0x0180, 0x024F);
    makeBlock("IPA Extensions", 0x0250, 0x02AF);
    makeBlock("Spacing Modifier Letters", 0x02B0, 0x02FF);
    makeBlock("Combining Diacritical Marks", 0x0300, 0x036F);
    makeBlock("Greek", 0x0370, 0x03FF);
    makeBlock("Cyrillic", 0x0400, 0x04FF);
    makeBlock("Armenian", 0x0530, 0x058F);
    makeBlock("Hebrew", 0x0590, 0x05FF);
    makeBlock("Arabic", 0x0600, 0x06FF);
    makeBlock("Devanagari", 0x0900, 0x097F);
    makeBlock("Bengali", 0x0980, 0x09FF);
    makeBlock("Gurmukhi", 0x0A00, 0x0A7F);
    makeBlock("Gujarati", 0x0A80, 0x0AFF);
    makeBlock("Oriya", 0x0B00, 0x0B7F);
    makeBlock("Tamil", 0x0B80, 0x0BFF);
    makeBlock("Telugu", 0x0C00, 0x0C7F);
    makeBlock("Kannada", 0x0C80, 0x0CFF);
    makeBlock("Malayalam", 0x0D00, 0x0D7F);
    makeBlock("Thai", 0x0E00, 0x0E7F);
    makeBlock("Lao", 0x0E80, 0x0EFF);
    makeBlock("Tibetan", 0x0F00, 0x0FBF);
    makeBlock("Georgian", 0x10A0, 0x10FF);
    makeBlock("Hangul Jamo", 0x1100, 0x11FF);
    makeBlock("Latin Extended Additional", 0x1E00, 0x1EFF);
    makeBlock("Greek Extended", 0x1F00, 0x1FFF);

    // Symbols 
    makeBlock("General Punctuation", 0x2000, 0x206F);
    makeBlock("Superscripts and Subscripts", 0x2070, 0x209F);
    makeBlock("Currency Symbols", 0x20A0, 0x20CF);
    makeBlock("Combining Marks for Symbols", 0x20D0, 0x20FF);
    makeBlock("Letterlike Symbols", 0x2100, 0x214F);
    makeBlock("Number Forms", 0x2150, 0x218F);
    makeBlock("Arrows", 0x2190, 0x21FF);
    makeBlock("Mathematical Operators", 0x2200, 0x22FF);
    makeBlock("Miscellaneous Technical", 0x2300, 0x234F);
    makeBlock("Control Pictures", 0x2400, 0x243F);
    makeBlock("Optical Character Recognition", 0x2440, 0x245F);
    makeBlock("Enclosed Alphanumerics", 0x2460, 0x24FF);
    makeBlock("Box Drawing", 0x2500, 0x257F);
    makeBlock("Block Elements", 0x2580, 0x259F);
    makeBlock("Geometric Shapes", 0x25A0, 0x25FF);
    makeBlock("Miscellaneous Symbols", 0x2600, 0x26FF);
    makeBlock("Dingbats", 0x2700, 0x27BF);
    
    // Chinese-Japanese-Korean Phonetics and Symbols
    makeBlock("CJK Symbols and Punctuation", 0x3000, 0x303F);
    makeBlock("Hiragana", 0x3040, 0x309F);
    makeBlock("Katakana", 0x30A0, 0x30FF);
    makeBlock("Bopomofo", 0x3100, 0x312F);
    makeBlock("Hangul Compatibility Jamo", 0x3130, 0x318F);
    makeBlock("Kanbun", 0x3190, 0x319F);
    makeBlock("Enclosed CJK Letters and Months", 0x3200, 0x32FF);
    makeBlock("CJK Compatibility", 0x3300, 0x33FF);

    // Chinese-Japanese-Korean Ideographs
    makeBlock("CJK Unified Ideographs", 0x4E00, 0x9FFF);
    
    // Hangul Syllables
    makeBlock("Hangul Syllables", 0xAC00, 0xD7A3);
    
    // Surrogates
    makeBlock("Surrogates", 0xD800, 0xDFFF);
    
    // Private Use
    makeBlock("Private Use", 0xE000, 0xF8FF);
    
    // Compatibility and Specials
    makeBlock("CJK Compatibility Ideographs", 0xF900, 0xFAFF);
    makeBlock("Alphabetic Presentation Forms", 0xFB00, 0xFB4F);
    makeBlock("Arabic Presentation Forms", 0xFB50, 0xFDFF);
    makeBlock("Combining Half Marks", 0xFE20, 0xFE2F);
    makeBlock("CJK Compatibility Forms", 0xFE30, 0xFE4F);
    makeBlock("Small Form Variants", 0xFE50, 0xFE6F);
    makeBlock("More Arabic Presentation Forms", 0xFE70, 0xFEFF);
    makeBlock("Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms", 0xFF00, 0xFFEF);
    makeBlock("Specials", 0xFEFF, 0xFFFF);

  
    blocks.put(name, new CharacterBlock(name, start, end));