Insert a Binary Unicode Property

Binary Unicode properties are among the Unicode properties that you can insert via the Insert Token button on the Create panel.

The Unicode standard defines a number of binary properties. They are called binary because a code point either has the property or not.

Select the property that you want to match from the list. The list only shows the properties that your application actually supports. You can choose whether to match any of the characters that have the property, or any of the characters that do not have the property.

The names of Unicode properties can be quite long. For many of the longer property names, Unicode provides an alias that is shorter. If your applications supports those aliases then you can tick “short property names” to use those instead. The option is disabled if the application does not support any of the short aliases. If the application supports the short alias for only some of the properties then the window lets you pick the short form of all the properties supported by the application. But when you OK the dialog it will generate a regex token using the full property name if the application does not support the short alias of the chosen property.

The window shows a preview of the characters that have the property, even if you select match characters that do not have the property.