Unicode decompose: aCharacter


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Last updated at 9:36 pm UTC on 18 December 2015

A class method of Class Unicode

decompose: aCharacter
	"Answers the decomposed sequence for the given character if such a sequence
	exists. If there is no decomposition for the character, answer nil."
	^String withAll: ((Decompositions at: aCharacter asInteger ifAbsent:[^nil]) 
		collect:[:v| Character value: v]).

In Squeak 4.6 and 5.0


(Unicode decompose: $é) class  
    WideString

(Unicode decompose: $é) size 
    2

(Unicode decompose: $é) asOrderedCollection collect: [:code | code asInteger] 
 an OrderedCollection(101 769)

(Unicode decompose: $ö) asOrderedCollection collect: [:code | code asInteger] 
 an OrderedCollection(111 776)

Called by String asDecomposedUnicode
The class variable Decompositions is initialized by Unicode initialize.

See also