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(*                           Daniel C. Buenzli                            *)
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(*   Copyright 2014 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et     *)
(*     en Automatique.                                                    *)
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(** Unicode characters.

    @since 4.03 *)

type t
(** The type for Unicode characters.

    A value of this type represents a Unicode
    {{:http://unicode.org/glossary/#unicode_scalar_value}scalar
    value} which is an integer in the ranges [0x0000]...[0xD7FF] or
    [0xE000]...[0x10FFFF]. *)

val min : t
(** [min] is U+0000. *)

val max : t
(** [max] is U+10FFFF. *)

val bom : t
(** [bom] is U+FEFF, the
    {{:http://unicode.org/glossary/#byte_order_mark}byte order mark} (BOM)
    character.

    @since 4.06.0 *)

val rep : t
(** [rep] is U+FFFD, the
    {{:http://unicode.org/glossary/#replacement_character}replacement}
    character.

    @since 4.06.0 *)

val succ : t -> t
(** [succ u] is the scalar value after [u] in the set of Unicode scalar
    values.

    @raise Invalid_argument if [u] is {!max}. *)

val pred : t -> t
(** [pred u] is the scalar value before [u] in the set of Unicode scalar
    values.

    @raise Invalid_argument if [u] is {!min}. *)

val is_valid : int -> bool
(** [is_valid n] is [true] if and only if [n] is a Unicode scalar value
    (i.e. in the ranges [0x0000]...[0xD7FF] or [0xE000]...[0x10FFFF]).*)

val of_int : int -> t
(** [of_int i] is [i] as a Unicode character.

    @raise Invalid_argument if [i] does not satisfy {!is_valid}. *)

(**/**)
val unsafe_of_int : int -> t
(**/**)

val to_int : t -> int
(** [to_int u] is [u] as an integer. *)

val is_char : t -> bool
(** [is_char u] is [true] if and only if [u] is a latin1 OCaml character. *)

val of_char : char -> t
(** [of_char c] is [c] as a Unicode character. *)

val to_char : t -> char
(** [to_char u] is [u] as an OCaml latin1 character.

    @raise Invalid_argument if [u] does not satisfy {!is_char}. *)

(**/**)
val unsafe_to_char : t -> char
(**/**)

val equal : t -> t -> bool
(** [equal u u'] is [u = u']. *)

val compare : t -> t -> int
(** [compare u u'] is [Stdlib.compare u u']. *)

val hash : t -> int
(** [hash u] associates a non-negative integer to [u]. *)