An good utility would be a getUnicodeCategory() API. - Gordon
-----Original Message----- From: Gordon Smith Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 10:24 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org; 'paul.hasti...@gmail.com' Subject: RE: What's the easiest way to tell if a character is a letter or not? There is no easy way to tell. You need a large lookup table containing all the characters in the LC, Ll, Lm, Lo, Lt, and Lu categories http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/index.htm - Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:paul.hasti...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 10:02 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: What's the easiest way to tell if a character is a letter or not? On 4/22/2013 10:23 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > I'm not that familiar with Chinese date formats.. Can someone provide me with > some examples? gregorian calendar, using latest icu4j lib (running full,long,medium,short formats): zh_CN/zh_HK locales date================== 2013年4月22日星期一 2013年4月22日 2013年4月22日 13-4-22 time================== 下午11:58:57 [印度支那時間] 下午11:58:57 [GMT+7] 下午11:58:57 下午11:58 zh_TW locale date================== 2013年4月22日星期一 2013年4月22日 2013/4/22 2013/4/22 time================== 印度支那時間上午12時00分24秒 GMT+7上午12時00分24秒 上午12:00:24 上午12:00 i'm in bangkok, so the tz is UTC+7.