On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 05:54:50 UTC, Meta wrote:
Another question, I'm not all that familiar with unicode, so
what is the difference between std.uni.isNumber and
std.ascii.isNumber? Am I right in thinking that
std.uni.isNumber will match things outside of the basic 0..9?
Starting at <http://dlang.org/phobos/std_uni#.isNumber>:
general Unicode category: Nd, Nl, No
Via
<http://www.google.com/search?q=general+Unicode+category:+Nd,+Nl,+No>
to
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping_of_Unicode_characters#General_Category>:
Number (N)
Decimal digit (Nd)
Letter (Nl) — Numerals composed of letters or letterlike
symbols (e.g., Roman numerals)
Other (No) — Includes vulgar fractions and superscript and
subscript digits.