The values of this enumeration specify the specific category of a character defined by the Unicode standard. This enumeration supports the System.Char class in determining properties of Unicode characters such as case with regard to the CultureInfo setting.

public enum UnicodeCategory {
   UppercaseLetter = 0,
   LowercaseLetter = 1,
   TitlecaseLetter = 2,
   ModifierLetter = 3,
   OtherLetter = 4,
   NonSpacingMark = 5,
   SpacingCombiningMark = 6,
   EnclosingMark = 7,
   DecimalDigitNumber = 8,
   LetterNumber = 9,
   OtherNumber = 10,
   SpaceSeparator = 11,
   LineSeparator = 12,
   ParagraphSeparator = 13,
   Control = 14,
   Format = 15,
   Surrogate = 16,
   PrivateUse = 17,
   ConnectorPunctuation = 18,
   DashPunctuation = 19,
   OpenPunctuation = 20,
   ClosePunctuation = 21,
   InitialQuotePunctuation = 22,
   FinalQuotePunctuation = 23,
   OtherPunctuation = 24,
   MathSymbol = 25,
   CurrencySymbol = 26,
   ModifierSymbol = 27,
   OtherSymbol = 28,
   OtherNotAssigned = 29
}

Hierarchy

System.Object System.ValueType System.Enum(System.IComparable, System.IFormattable, System.IConvertible) UnicodeCategory

Returned By

System.Char.GetUnicodeCategory( )