Unicode::CharName(3)

💖 NAME 💖

ok so bestie, this is Unicode::CharName — a whole module whose entire personality is looking up Unicode character names. that's it, that's the vibe ✨ it's a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, and it's lowkey iconic.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, here's the whole thing in action:

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

that's literally it. two functions, zero drama 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this module provides two functions named uname() and ublock(). two besties, both doing very important work 🫶

✨ uname() ✨

uname() returns the Unicode character name for the code you pass in — and that code has to be a number between 0 and 0x10FFFF. no cap, that's the range.

Unicode character names are written in upper-case ASCII letters, and they're strings that look exactly like these:

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

look at HANGUL SYLLABLE PWILH — main character energy honestly 😭👑

🎀 ublock() 🎀

ublock() returns the name of the Unicode character block that the given character belongs to. like, which neighborhood your little character lives in 🏡

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Unicode::String — go check it out bestie, iykyk

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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.

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fr fr that's the whole page — go name some characters, you got this 💜

ok and finally the cute sign-off: this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2016-09-09, and the page is Unicode::CharName(3) — slay, periodt 🌈🎀