Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide

Simplified Chinese Test Utilities

These utilities test various aspects of the Simplified Chinese (GB-2312-80) national standard character set. They also assume that the character being tested is part of the national standard character set.

The arguments for the functions in these tables must be a character in WC, wchar_t. For more information, see the cctype(3x)man page.

Table 12–1 Simplified Chinese Character Classification Functions


Routine	Description
`ischanzi`	Returns true if it is a Hanzi ideogram in GB-2312-80.
`iscaccent`	Returns true if it is an accent notation in GB-2312-80.
`iscphonetic`	Returns true if it is a phonetic symbol in GB-2312-80.
`iscpinyin`	Returns true if it is a Pinyin symbol in GB-2312-80.
`iscalpha`	Returns true if it is a Roman alphabetic in GB-2312-80.
`iscdigit`	Returns true if it is a Roman digit in GB-2312-80.
`iscnumber`	Returns true if it is a number in GB-2312-80.
`isclower`	Returns true if it is a Roman lowercase in GB-2312-80.
`iscupper`	Returns true if it is a Roman uppercase in GB-2312-80.
`iscblank`	Returns true if it is a white space character from GB-2312-80.
`iscspace`	Returns true if it is a space character from GB-2312-80.
`iscgen`	Returns true if it is a graphic or general symbol in GB-2312-80.
`iscsci`	Returns true if it is a scientific symbol in GB-2312-80.
`iscline`	Returns true if it is a ruled line symbol in GB-2312-80.
`iscunit`	Returns true if it is a unit character in GB-2312-80.
`iscparen`	Returns true if it is a right or left parenthesis in GB-2312-80.
`iscpunct`	Returns true if it is a punctuation character in GB-2312-80.
`iscgreek`	Returns true if it is a Greek character in GB-2312-80.
`iscrussian`	Returns true if it is a Russian character in GB-2312-80.
`iscspecial`	Returns true if it is a Greek or Russian character in GB-2312-80.
`ischira`	Returns true if it is a Japanese Hiragana character in GB-2312-80.
`isckata`	Returns true if it is a Japanese Katakana character in GB-2312-80.

Two additional routines for Simplified Chinese, iscgb and isceuc, test for characters from the GB-2312-80 character set. The iscgb routine expects a wide character, and isceuc expects a GB-2312-80 character in EUC format. For more information, see the cctype(3x) man page.

Table 12–2 General Simplified Chinese General Character Classification Functions


Routine	Description
`iscgb`	Returns true if it is in GB-2312-80.
`isceuc`	Returns true if it is a GB-2312-80 character in EUC format.