Unicode::CharName   (3) manpage
Unicode::CharName
3
1997-07-08
perl v5.8.0
User Contributed Perl Documentation
  • 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
      Unicode::String
  • 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.
Current Users: 32 © 1999-2006 Linux.com.hk PenguinSoft
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective companies. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.