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Unicode & Characters

• glyphForUnicode:glyphForUnicode_

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

• glyphForUnicodeFast:glyphForUnicodeFast_

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

• glyphForUnicodes:glyphForUnicodes_

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

• localGlyphForUnicodeFast:localGlyphForUnicodeFast_

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

• localGlyphForUnicodes:localGlyphForUnicodes_

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

• glyphForCharacter:glyphForCharacter_

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

• 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.

• glyphFromCharsCacheForUnicode:glyphFromCharsCacheForUnicode_

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

• glyphFromCharsCacheForChar:glyphFromCharsCacheForChar_

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

• glyphFromCharsCacheForCharFast:glyphFromCharsCacheForCharFast_

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

• charStringFromDisplayString:charStringFromDisplayString_

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