Determines if the specified character is an uppercase character.
A character is uppercase if its general category type, provided by
Character.getType(ch)
, is UPPERCASE_LETTER
.
or it has contributory property Other_Uppercase as defined by the Unicode Standard.
The following are examples of uppercase characters:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z '\u00C0' '\u00C1' '\u00C2' '\u00C3' '\u00C4' '\u00C5' '\u00C6' '\u00C7' '\u00C8' '\u00C9' '\u00CA' '\u00CB' '\u00CC' '\u00CD' '\u00CE' '\u00CF' '\u00D0' '\u00D1' '\u00D2' '\u00D3' '\u00D4' '\u00D5' '\u00D6' '\u00D8' '\u00D9' '\u00DA' '\u00DB' '\u00DC' '\u00DD' '\u00DE'
Many other Unicode characters are uppercase too.
Note: This method cannot handle supplementary characters. To support
all Unicode characters, including supplementary characters, use
the isUpperCase(int)
method.
ch | the character to be tested. |
true
if the character is uppercase;
false
otherwise.
Character.isLowerCase(char), Character.isTitleCase(char), Character.toUpperCase(char), Character.getType(char)
Diagram: Character