net.rim.device.api.util
Class CharacterUtilities

java.lang.Object
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  +--net.rim.device.api.util.CharacterUtilities

public final class CharacterUtilities

extends Object

Retreives Unicode attributes for characters.

Since:

JDE 3.6.0

Method Summary

static char

getOriginal(char ch) Gets the firstmost character in a decomposion, recursively.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getOriginal

public static char getOriginal(char ch)

Gets the firstmost character in a decomposion, recursively.

You can use this method for stripping accents off characters. For example, U+00E9 would return U+0065. U+1EDA would return U+004F.

Parameters:

ch - Character to use as source.

Returns:

Firstmost character from provided, composed character.

Since:

JDE 3.7.0