# # Copyright (C) 2002-2004, International Business Machines Corporation and others. # All Rights Reserved. # # file: sent.txt # # ICU Sentence Break Rules # See Unicode Standard Annex #29. # These rules are based on TR 29 version 4.0.0 # # # Character categories as defined in TR 29 # $Sep = [\u000a \u000d \u0085 \u2028 \u2029]; $Format = [[:Format:] - [:Grapheme_Extend:]]; $Sp = [[:Whitespace:] - $Sep]; $Lower = [[:Lowercase:]]; $Upper = [[:TitleCase_Letter:] [:Uppercase:]]; $OLetter = [[:Alphabetic:] [:name = HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH:] - [$Lower $Upper]]; $Numeric = [[:Nd:][:name = ARABIC DECIMAL SEPARATOR:][:name = ARABIC THOUSANDS SEPARATOR:]]; $ATerm = [.]; $Term = [:STerm:]; $Close = [[:Open_Punctuation:] [:Close_Punctuation:] [:Linebreak = Quotation:] - [[:name = HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH:] $ATerm $Term]]; # Define extended forms of the character classes, # incorporate grapheme cluster + format chars. $Extend = [[:Grapheme_Extend = TRUE:]]; $ATermEx = $ATerm $Extend* $Format*; $NumericEx = $Numeric $Extend* $Format*; $UpperEx = $Upper $Extend* $Format*; $TermEx = $Term $Extend* $Format*; # # $SepSeq keeps together CRLF as a separator. (CRLF is a grapheme cluster) # $SepSeq = $Sep | \u000d\u000a; # $InteriorChars are those that never trigger a following break. $InteriorChars = [^$Term $ATerm $Sep]; #Note: includes Extend and Format chars ## ------------------------------------------------- !!forward; # Rule 6. Match an ATerm (.) that does not cause a break because a number immediately follows it. $NumberFollows = $InteriorChars* $ATermEx $NumericEx; # Rule 7. $UppersSurround Match a no-break sentence fragment containing a . surrounded by Uppers $UppersSurround = $InteriorChars* $UpperEx $ATermEx $UpperEx; # Rule 8 Matches a sentence fragment containing "." that should not cause a sentence break, # because a lower case word follows the period. $LowerWordFollows = $InteriorChars* $ATermEx $Close* $Sp* [^$OLetter $Upper $Lower $Sep]* $Lower; # Rules 3, 9, 10, 11 # Matches a simple sentence, or the trailing part of a complex sentence, # where a simple sentence contains no interior "."s. $TermEndSequence = $InteriorChars* ($TermEx | $ATermEx) $Close* $Sp* $SepSeq?; $EndSequence = $InteriorChars* $SepSeq?; # Put them all together. ($NumberFollows | $UppersSurround | $LowerWordFollows)* $TermEndSequence{0}; # status = UBRK_SENTENCE_TERM ($NumberFollows | $UppersSurround | $LowerWordFollows)* $EndSequence{100}; # status = UBRK_SENTENCE_SEP ## ------------------------------------------------- !!reverse; # rule 6 $RULE6 = $Numeric $Format* $Extend* $ATerm; # rule 7 $RULE7 = $Upper $Format* $Extend* $ATerm $Format* $Extend* $Upper; # rule 8 $RULE8 = $Lower ($Format* $Extend* [^$OLetter $Upper $Lower $Sep])* ($Format* $Extend* $Sp)* ($Format* $Extend* $Close)* $Format* $Extend* $ATerm; # rule 9, 10, 11 # $CR $LF $End = $Sep | \u000a\u000d | $Format* $Extend* $Sp* $Format* $Extend* $Close* $Format* $Extend* ($Term | $ATerm) | $Sep $Format* $Extend* $Sp* $Format* $Extend* $Close* $Format* $Extend* ($Term | $ATerm); # rule 12 $RULE12 = [^$Sep $Term $ATerm]; $Join = ($RULE6 | $RULE7 | $RULE8 | $RULE12)*; $End; $End? $Join [$RULE12 - $Sp - $Close]; # forces a break at the beginning of text "$Sp blah blah blah" # remember the break iterators takes the longest match $End? $Join $Sp / [^$Term $ATerm $Sp $Close]; # forces a break at the beginning of text "$Close blah blah blah" $End? $Join $Close / [^$Term $ATerm $Close]; ## ------------------------------------------------- !!safe_reverse; # rule 4 $Extend+ [^$Extend]; # rule 7 $Extend* $ATerm $Format* $Extend* $Upper; # rule 8 ($Extend* $Term)+ ($Extend* $Sp $Format*)* ($Extend* $Close $Format*)* $Extend* $ATerm; # rule 11 ($Extend* $Sp $Format*)* ($Extend* $Close $Format*)*; ($Extend* $Sp $Format*)* ($Extend* $Close $Format*)* $Extend* ($Term | $ATerm); ## ------------------------------------------------- !!safe_forward; # rule 7 $ATerm $Extend* $Format* $Upper; # rule 8 $Lower .; # rule 11 ($Close $Extend* $Format*)* ($Sp $Extend* $Format*)*;