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📖 NAME

Unicode::CharName - Look up Unicode character names

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🔤 Look up a character name	uname(code_point)	Returns the Unicode name for a given code point (0–0x10FFFF)
📦 Look up a character block	ublock(code_point)	Returns the Unicode block name for a given code point
📥 Load the module	use Unicode::CharName qw(uname ublock);	Import the two functions

📝 SYNOPSIS

     use Unicode::CharName qw(uname ublock);
     print uname(ord('%')), "\n";
     print ublock(0x0300), "\n";

📋 DESCRIPTION

This module provides two functions named uname() and ublock(). The uname() function will return the Unicode character name for the given code (a number between 0 and 0x10FFFF). Unicode character names are written in upper-case ASCII letters, and are strings like:

  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
  LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
  CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH 7C80
  HANGUL SYLLABLE PWILH

The ublock() will return the name of the Unicode character block that the given character belongs to.

👀 SEE ALSO

Unicode::String

©️ COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1997,2005 Gisle Aas.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Name table extracted from the Unicode 4.1 Character Database. Copyright (c) 1991-2005 Unicode, Inc. All Rights reserved.

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