Module std::char

A character type.

The char type represents a single character. More specifically, since 'character' isn't a well-defined concept in Unicode, char is a 'Unicode scalar value', which is similar to, but not the same as, a 'Unicode code point'.

This module exists for technical reasons, the primary documentation for char is directly on the char primitive type itself.

This module is the home of the iterator implementations for the iterators implemented on char, as well as some useful constants and conversion functions that convert various types to char.

Structs

DecodeUtf16	An iterator that decodes UTF-16 encoded code points from an iterator of u16s.
DecodeUtf16Error	An error that can be returned when decoding UTF-16 code points.
EscapeDebug	An iterator that yields the literal escape code of a char.
EscapeDefault	An iterator that yields the literal escape code of a char.
EscapeUnicode	Returns an iterator that yields the hexadecimal Unicode escape of a character, as chars.
ParseCharError	An error which can be returned when parsing a char.
ToLowercase	Returns an iterator that yields the lowercase equivalent of a char.
ToUppercase	Returns an iterator that yields the uppercase equivalent of a char.
CharTryFromError	[ Experimental ] The error type returned when a conversion from u32 to char fails.
DecodeUtf8	[ Experimental ] An iterator over an iterator of bytes of the characters the bytes represent as UTF-8
UnicodeVersion	[ Experimental ] Represents a Unicode Version.

Constants

MAX	The highest valid code point a char can have.
REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER	U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (�) is used in Unicode to represent a decoding error.
UNICODE_VERSION	[ Experimental ] The version of Unicode that the Unicode parts of CharExt and UnicodeStrPrelude traits are based on.

Functions

decode_utf16	Create an iterator over the UTF-16 encoded code points in iter, returning unpaired surrogates as Errs.
from_digit	Converts a digit in the given radix to a char.
from_u32	Converts a u32 to a char.
from_u32_unchecked⚠	Converts a u32 to a char, ignoring validity.
decode_utf8	[ Experimental ] Decodes an Iterator of bytes as UTF-8.