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YOCKOW/SwiftBonaFideCharacterSet 1.6.2
Bona fide character set.
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.package(url: "https://github.com/YOCKOW/SwiftBonaFideCharacterSet.git", from: "1.6.2")

What is SwiftBonaFideCharacterSet?

BonaFideCharacterSet defined in this library "SwiftBonaFideCharacterSet" is a set of Characters.

Is it different from Foundation.CharacterSet?

Yes, we have already CharacterSet that is defined in Foundation framework. However, as Apple also says, Foundation.CharacterSet is NOT a set of Characters but of UnicodeScalars.
See the following code:

let jpFlag: Character = "🇯🇵" // Flag of Japan
let amFlag: Character = "🇦🇲" // Flag of Armenia
let paFlag: Character = "🇵🇦" // Flag of Panama

let japanAndArmenia: String = "\(jpFlag)\(amFlag)"
let paFlagSet = CharacterSet(charactersIn:"\(paFlag)")

let whichFlag = japanAndArmenia.components(separatedBy:paFlagSet).joined()
print(whichFlag) // Prints "🇯🇲" (Flag of Jamaica)

The result is extremely strange if Foundation.CharacterSet is truly a set of Characters. BonaFideCharacterSet may be useful when you want a genuine set of Characters:

let jpFlag: Character = "🇯🇵" // Flag of Japan
let amFlag: Character = "🇦🇲" // Flag of Armenia
let paFlag: Character = "🇵🇦" // Flag of Panama

let japanAndArmenia: String = "\(jpFlag)\(amFlag)"
let jpAndAmSet = BonaFideCharacterSet(charactersIn:japanAndArmenia)

print(jpAndAmSet.contains(jpFlag)) // Prints "true"
print(jpAndAmSet.contains(amFlag)) // Prints "true"
print(jpAndAmSet.contains(paFlag)) // Prints "false"

let invertedSet = jpAndAmSet.inverted
print(invertedSet.contains(jpFlag)) // Prints "false"
print(invertedSet.contains(amFlag)) // Prints "false"
print(invertedSet.contains(paFlag)) // Prints "true"

Character Comparison

Comparison of Characters depends on the version of Swift:

// Unicode Character "Ä" is...
// * U+00C4 when it is normalized using NFC
// * U+0041 U+0308 when it is normalized using NFD

print(Character("\u{00C4}") < Character("B"))
  // Prints "true" in Swift 4.1.2
  // Prints "false" in Swift 4.1.50
  
print(Character("\u{0041}\u{0308}") < Character("B"))
  // Prints "true" in Swift 4.1.2
  // Prints "false" in Swift 4.1.50

Normalized Character

This library also provides DecomposedCharacter and PrecomposedCharacter. DecomposedCharacter represents a character that is always normalized using NFD. PrecomposedCharacter represents a character that is always normalized using NFC. They are compared as arrays of Unicode scalars.

print(DecomposedCharacter("Ä") < DecomposedCharacter("B"))
// Always prints "true"

print(PrecomposedCharacter("Ä") < PrecomposedCharacter("B"))
// Always prints "false"

There are DecomposedCharacterSet and PrecomposedCharacterSet provided by this library.

let dset = DecomposedCharacterSet(charactersIn:"A"..<"B")
print(dset.contains("Ä")) // Prints "true"

let pset = PrecomposedCharacterSet(charactersIn:"A"..<"B")
print(pset.contains("Ä")) // Prints "false"

Requirements

  • Swift 5 (Compatibility mode for Swift 4 or 4.2 is also OK.)
  • macOS or Linux

Dependencies

License

MIT License.
See "LICENSE.txt" for more information.

GitHub

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