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# BaseLanguageLetterSetEnum

> BaseLanguageLetterSetEnum in the ABBYY FineReader Engine API — Letter-set categories of a base language: characters allowed or prohibited at given positions in words of the language.

BaseLanguageLetterSetEnum enumeration constants are used to describe different letter sets of a base language. Letter sets are the sets of characters that are allowed or prohibited in certain places inside the words in a specified language.

```
typedef enum {
 BLLS_Alphabet,
 BLLS_Prefixes,
 BLLS_Suffixes,
 BLLS_IgnorableLetters,
 BLLS_SubscriptAlphabet,
 BLLS_SuperscriptAlphabet
} BaseLanguageLetterSetEnum;
```

## Elements

| Name | Description |
| - | - |
| BLLS\\\_Alphabet | This value denotes a letter set that includes the full alphabet of the base language. |
| BLLS\\\_IgnorableLetters | This value denotes a letter set that includes the characters that may be found inside a word, but are ignored during the internal spelling check. |
| BLLS\\\_Prefixes | This constant denotes a letter set that covers the punctuation marks that may be found immediately before words. Among these characters there may be ", (, \{ and so on. |
| BLLS\\\_SubscriptAlphabet | This value denotes a letter set that includes the characters allowed inside the words of the language as subscripts. |
| BLLS\\\_Suffixes | This constant denotes a letter set that covers the punctuation marks that may be found immediately after words. Among these characters there may be !, ", ), } and so on. |
| BLLS\\\_SuperscriptAlphabet | This value denotes a letter set that includes the characters allowed inside the words of the language as superscripts. |

## Used in

[IBaseLanguage::LetterSet](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/language-related-objects/baselanguage/letterset-property)