Unicode::CharName(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Unicode::CharName(3)
NAME
Unicode::CharName - Look up Unicode character names
SYNOPSIS
use Unicode::CharName qw(uname ublock);
print uname(ord('%')), "
";
print ublock(0x0300), "
";
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
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.
perl v5.16.3 2014-06-10 Unicode::CharName(3)
