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In order to make the use of the character set data type and procedures useful, several predefined character set variables exist.
All lower-case characters.
All upper-case characters.
This is empty, because ASCII has no titlecase characters.
All letters, e.g. the union of
char-set:lower-caseandchar-set:upper-case.
The union of
char-set:letterandchar-set:digit.
All characters which would put ink on the paper.
The union of
char-set:graphicandchar-set:whitespace.
All whitespace characters.
All horizontal whitespace characters, that is
#\spaceand#\tab.
The ISO control characters with the codes 0–31 and 127.
The characters
!"#%&'()*,-./:;?@[\\]_{}