Unicode::CharName - Look up Unicode character names
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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.
perl v5.40.0 2024-10-20 Unicode::CharName(3pm)
Description
This module provide a 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.
Name
Unicode::CharName - Look up Unicode character names
See Also
Unicode::String
Synopsis
use Unicode::CharName qw(uname ublock);
print uname(ord('%')), "\n";
print ublock(0x0300), "\n";
