class Uni does Positional[uint32] does Stringy { }

Unlike Str, which is made of Grapheme clusters, Uni is string strictly made of Unicode codepoints. That is, base characters and combining characters are separate elements of a Uni instance.

Uni presents itself with a list-like interface of integer Codepoints.

Typical usage of Uni is through one of its subclasses, NFC, NFD, NFKD and NFKC, which represent strings in one of the Unicode Normalization Forms of the same name.

Methods

method new

method new(*@codes --> Uni:D)

Creates a new Uni instance from the given codepoint numbers.

method list

method list(Uni:D:)

Returns a Seq of integer codepoints.

method NFC

method NFC(Uni:D: --> NFC:D)

Returns a NFC (Normal Form Composed)-converted version of the invocant.

method NFD

method NFD(Uni:D: --> NFD:D)

Returns a NFD (Normal Form Decomposed)-converted version of the invocant.

method NFKC

method NFKC(Uni:D: --> NFKC:D)

Returns a NFKC (Normal Form Compatibility Composed)-converted version of the invocant.

method NFKD

method NFKD(Uni:D: --> NFKD:D)

Returns a NFKD (Normal Form Compatibility Decomposed)-converted version of the invocant.

method codes

method codes(Uni:D: --> Int:D)

Returns the number of codepoints in the invocant.

method elems

method elems(Uni:D: --> Int:D)

Returns the number of codepoints in the invocant.