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in reply to getting Unicode character names from string

Hi!

Look at this http://perldoc.perl.org/charnames.html

I'm pretty sure you find the answer to your first question.

Best regards
McA

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Re^2: getting Unicode character names from string
by csthflk (Novice) on Oct 10, 2012 at 19:21 UTC
    Thanks for the reply McA, but unfortunately the answer is not there. I actually did read that page before posting, and again more closely after your message. I see that I can get the name if I pass the numeric code of the Unicode character to charnames::viacode(), but I do not know how to obtain the numeric code at runtime.

    So I can match named characters, and write named characters, but I can't yet get the names from characters that are already in Unicode.

    Jason
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      Most likely, Unicode::Tussle contains something you can use, or use the source of. Most likely the uniprops program.

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