---
title: decomposables
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: foundation/nscharacterset/decomposables
---

# decomposables

A character set containing individual Unicode characters that can also be represented as composed character sequences (such as for letters with accents), by the definition of “standard decomposition” in version 3.2 of the Unicode character encoding standard.

## Declaration

```swift
class var decomposables: CharacterSet { get }
```

## Return Value

Return Value A character set containing all the decomposable characters.

## Discussion

Discussion These characters include compatibility characters as well as pre-composed characters. note: This character set doesn’t currently include the Hangul characters defined in version 2.0 of the Unicode standard.

## See Also

### Getting Standard Character Sets

- [alphanumerics](foundation/nscharacterset/alphanumerics.md)
- [capitalizedLetters](foundation/nscharacterset/capitalizedletters.md)
- [controlCharacters](foundation/nscharacterset/controlcharacters.md)
- [decimalDigits](foundation/nscharacterset/decimaldigits.md)
- [illegalCharacters](foundation/nscharacterset/illegalcharacters.md)
- [letters](foundation/nscharacterset/letters.md)
- [lowercaseLetters](foundation/nscharacterset/lowercaseletters.md)
- [newlines](foundation/nscharacterset/newlines.md)
- [nonBaseCharacters](foundation/nscharacterset/nonbasecharacters.md)
- [punctuationCharacters](foundation/nscharacterset/punctuationcharacters.md)
- [symbols](foundation/nscharacterset/symbols.md)
- [uppercaseLetters](foundation/nscharacterset/uppercaseletters.md)
- [whitespacesAndNewlines](foundation/nscharacterset/whitespacesandnewlines.md)
- [whitespaces](foundation/nscharacterset/whitespaces.md)