NAME

uniname-words - look for words in unicode character names

SYNOPSIS

use uniname-words;

say uniname-words.elems;  # 262166

say .uniname for uniname-words<love>;
# LOVE HOTEL
# LOVE LETTER
# I LOVE YOU HAND SIGN

say .uniname for uniname-words(<left bracket>);

DESCRIPTION

The uniname-words distribution exports a single subroutine: uniname-words. When called without a parameter, it returns a Map with each word (/w+) from the unicode database (active at installation of the module) as a key (in lowercase), and an int32 array of the codepoints that have that word in their name, as the value.

All Unicode reserved codepoints are available under the reserved key: the rest of the name can be deduced from the codepoint value.

When the uniname-words sub is called with one or more arguments, they are considered to be words to return the codepoints of: these can be specified as a Str or as a Regex. Given words will be automatically lowercased to be checked. An optional :partial named argument can be specified to return the codepoints of words that partially match.

By default, if more than one word has been specified, all words must occur in the unicode name to be included. An optional :any named argument can be specified that any of the specified words should occur.

uw

This module also install a command-line utility uw, that takes one or more words, and the --partial and --any parameters, just like the uniname-words sub does, and lists the names of the selected code points on STDOUT. It also additionally takes a --hex parameter (to just see the hexadecimal values), a --name parameter (to just see the names) and/or a --char (to just see a rendition). These 3 parameters can also be mixed in any combination.

un

This module also install a command-line utility un, that takes one or more strings, and lists the names of the code points of these strings on STDOUT. It also additionally takes a --hex parameter (to just see the hexadecimal values), a --name parameter (to just see the names) and/or a --char (to just see a rendition). These 3 parameters can also be mixed in any combination.

INSTALLATION NOTE

Installing (or running this module for the first time after a runtime update) may take up to a minute (or possibly more on slower machines) because the entire unicode database is *then* checked, allowing it to remain up-to-date across versions of the run-time.

AUTHOR

Elizabeth Mattijsen <[email protected]>

Source can be located at: https://codeberg.org/lizmat/uniname-words . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.

If you like this module, or what I’m doing more generally, committing to a small sponsorship would mean a great deal to me!

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Elizabeth Mattijsen

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.

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