NSCharacterSetMBS.alphanumericCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.alphanumericCharacterSet
MsgBox left(n,200) // show only first 200 chars

Informally, this set is the set of all characters used as basic units of alphabets, syllabaries, ideographs, and digits.

NSCharacterSetMBS.capitalizedLetterCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.capitalizedLetterCharacterSet
MsgBox n

NSCharacterSetMBS.characterSetWithBitmapRepresentation(data as MemoryBlock) as NSCharacterSetMBS

This method is useful for creating a character set object with data from a file or other external data source.

A raw bitmap representation of a character set is a byte array of 2^16 bits (that is, 8192 bytes). The value of the bit at position n represents the presence in the character set of the character with decimal Unicode value n.

NSCharacterSetMBS.characterSetWithCharactersInString(aString as string) as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.characterSetWithCharactersInString("Hello World")
MsgBox n

A character set containing the characters in aString. Returns an empty character set if aString is empty.

NSCharacterSetMBS.characterSetWithContentsOfFile(aString as string) as NSCharacterSetMBS

To read a bitmap representation from any file, use the NSData methoddataWithContentsOfFile and pass the result to characterSetWithBitmapRepresentation.

This method doesn't use filenames to check for the uniqueness of the character sets it creates. To prevent duplication of character sets in memory, cache them and make them available through an API that checks whether the requested set has already been loaded.

See also:

• characterSetWithContentsOfFile(file as folderitem) as NSCharacterSetMBS

NSCharacterSetMBS.characterSetWithContentsOfFile(file as folderitem) as NSCharacterSetMBS

To read a bitmap representation from any file, use the NSData.methoddataWithContentsOfFile and pass the result to characterSetWithBitmapRepresentation.

This method doesn't use filenames to check for the uniqueness of the character sets it creates. To prevent duplication of character sets in memory, cache them and make them available through an API that checks whether the requested set has already been loaded.

See also:

• characterSetWithContentsOfFile(aString as string) as NSCharacterSetMBS

NSCharacterSetMBS.characterSetWithRange(r as NSRangeMBS) as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim r as NSRangeMBS = NSMakeRangeMBS(asc("a"),26) // all small letters
dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.characterSetWithRange(r)
MsgBox n

r: A range of Unicode values.

r.location is the value of the first character to return; aRange.location + r.length-1 is the value of the last.

Returns a character set containing characters whose Unicode values are given by aRange. If aRange.length is 0, returns an empty character set.

This code excerpt creates a character set object containing the lowercase English alphabetic characters:

NSCharacterSetMBS.controlCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

These characters are specifically the Unicode values U+0000 to U+001F and U+007F to U+009F.

NSCharacterSetMBS.decimalDigitCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.decimalDigitCharacterSet
MsgBox n

Informally, this set is the set of all characters used to represent the decimal values 0 through 9. These characters include, for example, the decimal digits of the Indic scripts and Arabic.

NSCharacterSetMBS.decomposableCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

Returns a character set containing all individual Unicode characters that can also be represented as composed character sequences (such as for letters with accents), by the definition of "standard decomposition" in version 3.2 of the Unicode character encoding standard.

These characters include compatibility characters as well as pre-composed characters.

Note: This character set doesn't currently include the Hangul characters defined in version 2.0 of the Unicode standard.

NSCharacterSetMBS.illegalCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

NSCharacterSetMBS.letterCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.letterCharacterSet
MsgBox n

Informally, this set is the set of all characters used as letters of alphabets and ideographs.

NSCharacterSetMBS.lowercaseLetterCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.lowercaseLetterCharacterSet
MsgBox n

Informally, this set is the set of all characters used as lowercase letters in alphabets that make case distinctions.

NSCharacterSetMBS.newlineCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.newlineCharacterSet
MsgBox n

A character set containing the newline characters (U+000A–U+000D, U+0085).
Available in Mac OS X v10.5 and later.

NSCharacterSetMBS.nonBaseCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.nonBaseCharacterSet
MsgBox n

This set is also defined as all legal Unicode characters with a non-spacing priority greater than 0. Informally, this set is the set of all characters used as modifiers of base characters.

NSCharacterSetMBS.punctuationCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.punctuationCharacterSet
MsgBox n

Informally, this set is the set of all non-whitespace characters used to separate linguistic units in scripts, such as periods, dashes, parentheses, and so on.

NSCharacterSetMBS.symbolCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.symbolCharacterSet
MsgBox n

These characters include, for example, the dollar sign ($) and the plus (+) sign.
Available in Mac OS X v10.3 and later.

NSCharacterSetMBS.uppercaseLetterCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.uppercaseLetterCharacterSet
MsgBox n

Informally, this set is the set of all characters used as uppercase letters in alphabets that make case distinctions.

NSCharacterSetMBS.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet
MsgBox n

NSCharacterSetMBS.whitespaceCharacterSet as NSCharacterSetMBS

dim n as NSCharacterSetMBS = NSCharacterSetMBS.whitespaceCharacterSet
MsgBox n

This set doesn't contain the newline or carriage return characters.