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CHARACTER
const short CHARACTER = 1;
- Description
- Single character.
Indicates that single (multibyte) characters are used.
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WORD
const short WORD = 2;
- Description
- Single word.
Indicates that single words are used. The definition of what a
word is is implementation and language/locale dependent. While in
english a word is ended by a space or a special character like a
comma or a period, this is not necessarily true in other
languages.
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SENTENCE
const short SENTENCE = 3;
- Description
- Single sentence.
Indicates that single sentences are used. The definition of what
a sentence is is implementation and language/locale dependent.
While in english a sentence is ended by a period, this is not
necessarily true in other languages.
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PARAGRAPH
const short PARAGRAPH = 4;
- Description
- Single paragraph.
Indicates that single paragraphs are used. The definition of
what a paragraph is is implementation and language/locale
dependent.
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LINE
const short LINE = 5;
- Description
- Single line.
Indicates that single lines, as displayed on the screen, are
used. In contrast to the constants CHARACTER ,
WORD , SENTENCE , and
PARAGRAPH which are content oriented this constant is
view oriented. It can be used to retrieve hyphenation
information.
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GLYPH
const short GLYPH = 6;
- Description
- Single glyph.
Glyphs are runs of one or more (multibyte) characters which are
displayed as one symbol.
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ATTRIBUTE_RUN
const short ATTRIBUTE_RUN = 7;
- Description
- Attribute run.
Each attribute run is a character run of maximal length where all
characters have the same attributes set.
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