+data GeneralCategory
+ = UppercaseLetter -- ^ Lu: Letter, Uppercase
+ | LowercaseLetter -- ^ Ll: Letter, Lowercase
+ | TitlecaseLetter -- ^ Lt: Letter, Titlecase
+ | ModifierLetter -- ^ Lm: Letter, Modifier
+ | OtherLetter -- ^ Lo: Letter, Other
+ | NonSpacingMark -- ^ Mn: Mark, Non-Spacing
+ | SpacingCombiningMark -- ^ Mc: Mark, Spacing Combining
+ | EnclosingMark -- ^ Me: Mark, Enclosing
+ | DecimalNumber -- ^ Nd: Number, Decimal
+ | LetterNumber -- ^ Nl: Number, Letter
+ | OtherNumber -- ^ No: Number, Other
+ | ConnectorPunctuation -- ^ Pc: Punctuation, Connector
+ | DashPunctuation -- ^ Pd: Punctuation, Dash
+ | OpenPunctuation -- ^ Ps: Punctuation, Open
+ | ClosePunctuation -- ^ Pe: Punctuation, Close
+ | InitialQuote -- ^ Pi: Punctuation, Initial quote
+ | FinalQuote -- ^ Pf: Punctuation, Final quote
+ | OtherPunctuation -- ^ Po: Punctuation, Other
+ | MathSymbol -- ^ Sm: Symbol, Math
+ | CurrencySymbol -- ^ Sc: Symbol, Currency
+ | ModifierSymbol -- ^ Sk: Symbol, Modifier
+ | OtherSymbol -- ^ So: Symbol, Other
+ | Space -- ^ Zs: Separator, Space
+ | LineSeparator -- ^ Zl: Separator, Line
+ | ParagraphSeparator -- ^ Zp: Separator, Paragraph
+ | Control -- ^ Cc: Other, Control
+ | Format -- ^ Cf: Other, Format
+ | Surrogate -- ^ Cs: Other, Surrogate
+ | PrivateUse -- ^ Co: Other, Private Use
+ | NotAssigned -- ^ Cn: Other, Not Assigned
+ deriving (Eq, Ord, Enum, Read, Show, Bounded)
+
+-- | Retrieves the general Unicode category of the character.
+generalCategory :: Char -> GeneralCategory
+#ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__
+generalCategory c = toEnum (wgencat (fromIntegral (ord c)))