Character.isUpperCase

Character.isUpperCase

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Syntax
public static boolean isUpperCase( char ch )
Parameters
ch
the character to be tested.
Returns
true if the character is uppercase; false otherwise.
Description
Determines if the specified character is an uppercase character. A character is uppercase if it is not in the range '\u2000' through '\u2FFF', the Unicode attribute table does not specify a mapping to uppercase for the character, and at least one of the following is true:

Of the ISO-LATIN-1 characters (character codes 0x0000 through 0x00FF), the following are uppercase:

 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
 \u00C0 \u00C1 \u00C2 \u00C3 \u00C4 \u00C5 \u00C6 \u00C7
 \u00C8 \u00C9 \u00CA \u00CB \u00CC \u00CD \u00CE \u00CF \u00D0
 \u00D1 \u00D2 \u00D3 \u00D4 \u00D5 \u00D6 \u00D8 \u00D9 \u00DA
 \u00DB \u00DC \u00DD \u00DE
 

Many other Unicode characters are uppercase, too.

See Also
isLowerCase, isTitleCase, toUpperCase