1Unicode::CharName(3)  User Contributed Perl Documentation Unicode::CharName(3)
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NAME

6       Unicode::CharName - Look up Unicode character names
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SYNOPSIS

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

14       This module provide a two functions named uname() and ublock().  The
15       uname() function will return the Unicode character name for the given
16       code (a number between 0 and 0x10FFFF).  Unicode character names are
17       written in upper-case ASCII letters, and are strings like:
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19         LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
20         LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
21         CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH 7C80
22         HANGUL SYLLABLE PWILH
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24       The ublock() will return the name of the Unicode character block that
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SEE ALSO

28       Unicode::String
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31       Copyright 1997,2005 Gisle Aas.
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33       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
34       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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36       Name table extracted from the Unicode 4.1 Character Database. Copyright
37       (c) 1991-2005 Unicode, Inc. All Rights reserved.
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41perl v5.16.3                      2014-06-10              Unicode::CharName(3)
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