LIBUNINAMESLIST(3)

πŸ’– LIBUNINAMESLIST(3) πŸ’–

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because we're talking about libuninameslist, a section 3 library function page, and it's genuinely such a serve 🫢


✨ NAME ✨

libuninameslist β€” the Unicode Names and Annotations List, and yes that's the whole vibe πŸ’…


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, here's how you actually summon it:

#include <uninameslist.h>
Compile and link with -luninameslist

so you #include <uninameslist.h> and you compile and link with -luninameslist, both of those, no skipping steps, periodt ✨


πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

okay so here's the tea: the libuninameslist library gives a program the ability to fetch unicode names and annotations, exactly as described by www.unicode.org, out of a text file called NamesList.txt πŸ“–βœ¨

that's it, that's the whole point of it, and honestly? iconic. πŸ‘‘


πŸŽ€ OPTIONS πŸŽ€

this library package comes with some optional extras, and they're lowkey the best part:

  • optional Python wrapper β€” it's called uninameslist.py and it's there if you want it πŸπŸ’–
  • optional French nameslist library β€” it's called libuninameslist-fr and yes, the French girlies get their own library, we love to see it πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸŒΈ

πŸ’œ AUTHOR πŸ’œ

ngl, the credit goes to everyone involved in making libuninameslist β€” and if you wanna know who that actually is, go read the AUTHORS file. no gatekeeping here, fr fr 🫢


so that's the whole page, bestie β€” a manual from the Library Functions Manual, dated 2003-Jan-16, filed under LIBUNINAMESLIST(3). go fetch some unicode names, you absolute main character πŸ’–βœ¨πŸŽ€πŸ¦‹πŸ’