Functions

Summary

Compares two characters, ignoring case using specified Unicode rules.

Package

lispworks

Signatures

unicode-char-equal char1 char2 &key style => flag

unicode-char-not-equal char1 char2 &key style => flag

Arguments

char1

A character

char2

A character

style

A keyword

Values

flag

A generalized boolean

Description

The function unicode-char-equal returns true if the characters char1 and char2 are equal, and the function unicode-char-not-equal returns true if the characters char1 and char2 are not equal. Both functions ignore case using Unicode rules specified by style .

The current implementation only supports one style of comparison:

:simple-case-fold

Compares characters using Unicode's simple case folding rules.

See also

unicode-char-greaterp