org.graalvm.shadowed.com.ibm.icu.impl.breakiter

Interface LanguageBreakEngine

All Known Implementing Classes:

BurmeseBreakEngine, CjkBreakEngine, DictionaryBreakEngine, KhmerBreakEngine, LaoBreakEngine, LSTMBreakEngine, ThaiBreakEngine, UnhandledBreakEngine

public interface LanguageBreakEngine

The LanguageBreakEngine interface is to be used to implement any language-specific logic for break iteration.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	findBreaks(CharacterIterator text, int startPos, int endPos, DictionaryBreakEngine.DequeI foundBreaks, boolean isPhraseBreaking) Implements the actual breaking logic.
boolean	handles(int c)

Method Detail

handles

boolean handles(int c)

Parameters:

c - A Unicode codepoint value

Returns:

true if the engine can handle this character, false otherwise

findBreaks

int findBreaks(CharacterIterator text,
               int startPos,
               int endPos,
               DictionaryBreakEngine.DequeI foundBreaks,
               boolean isPhraseBreaking)

Implements the actual breaking logic. Find any breaks within a run in the supplied text.

Parameters:

text - The text to break over. The iterator is left at the end of the run of characters which the engine has handled.

startPos - The index of the beginning of the range

endPos - The index of the possible end of our range. It is possible, however, that the range ends earlier

foundBreaks - A data structure to receive the break positions.

Returns:

the number of breaks found