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Character.CharCount(Int32) Method

Definition

Determines the number of char values needed to represent the specified character (Unicode code point).

[Android.Runtime.Register("charCount", "(I)I", "")]
public static int CharCount (int codePoint);
[<Android.Runtime.Register("charCount", "(I)I", "")>]
static member CharCount : int -> int

Parameters

codePoint
Int32

the character (Unicode code point) to be tested.

Returns

2 if the character is a valid supplementary character; 1 otherwise.

Attributes

Remarks

Determines the number of char values needed to represent the specified character (Unicode code point). If the specified character is equal to or greater than 0x10000, then the method returns 2. Otherwise, the method returns 1.

This method doesn't validate the specified character to be a valid Unicode code point. The caller must validate the character value using #isValidCodePoint(int) isValidCodePoint if necessary.

Added in 1.5.

Java documentation for java.lang.Character.charCount(int).

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