glyph(for:)

Unicode & Characters

• glyphFast(for:)

  Returns the local or imported glyph associated with a Unicode scalar, or nil when no glyph matches.

• glyph(for:)

  Returns the local or imported glyph associated with the first matching Unicode scalar, or nil when none match.

• localGlyphFast(for:)

  Returns a glyph from this font’s character cache associated with a Unicode scalar, or nil when no glyph matches.

• localGlyph(for:)

  Returns a glyph from this font’s character cache associated with the first matching Unicode scalar, or nil when none match.

• glyph(forCharacter:)glyphForCharacter:glyphForCharacter_

  Returns the local or imported glyph represented by a Unicode scalar or temporary display character, or nil when no glyph matches.

• character(for:)characterForGlyph:characterForGlyph_

  Returns the primary Unicode scalar of an encoded glyph or a temporary display character for an unencoded glyph.

• charsCache

  The lookup cache used to map Unicode strings and temporary display characters to glyphs.

• cachedGlyph(for:)

  Returns the cached local or imported glyph associated with a Unicode scalar, or nil when no glyph matches.

• cachedGlyph(forCharacter:)glyphFromCharsCacheForChar:glyphFromCharsCacheForChar_

  Returns the cached local or imported glyph represented by a Unicode scalar or temporary display character, or nil when no glyph matches.

• cachedGlyphFast(forCharacter:)glyphFromCharsCacheForCharFast:glyphFromCharsCacheForCharFast_

  Returns the cached local or imported glyph represented by a Unicode scalar or temporary display character, or nil when no glyph matches.

• preloadCharacterCache()preloadCharCachepreloadCharCache

  Prepares the character cache from the local and imported glyphs.

• characterString(fromDisplayString:)charStringFromDisplayString:charStringFromDisplayString_

  Converts display text containing slash-prefixed glyph names to a string of display characters.