Unicode::CharName - Look up Unicode character names

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# NAME

Unicode::CharName - Look up Unicode character names

# SYNOPSIS

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

# 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.

# SEE ALSO

the Unicode::String manpage

# COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1997 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 2.0 Character Database. Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Unicode, Inc. All Rights reserved.

Unicode::CharName - Look up Unicode character names