Unicode::CharName(3pm)

Unicode::CharName3pm

Look up unicode character names

Usage

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

Overview

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.

Releases

14 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 12 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0–6.0
  6. 7
  7. 8
  8. 9
  9. 10
  10. 11
  11. 12
  12. 13
  13. Arch

From perl-unicode-string 2.10-11 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.