- char-set:letterconstant
In Unicode, a letter is any character with one of the letter categories (Lu, Ll, Lt, Lm, Lo) in the Unicode character database.
There are 52 ASCII letters
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
There are 117 Latin-1 letters. These are the 115 characters that are members of the Latin-1 char-set:lower-case and char-set:upper-case sets, plus
00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR 00BA MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR (These two letters are considered lower-case by Unicode, but not by SRFI 14.)