charnames
Pragma to provide support for \N{
charname
}
escapes. Options are:
:full
Searches for
charname
s in the list of standard Unicode character names:short
Searches for
charname
s in the specified script, with the\N
escape expected to be of the form\N{
script
:charname
}
scriptname
Searches for all
charname
s in scriptscriptname
For example:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use charnames ':short'; print "\N{greek:Sigma} is an upper-case sigma.\n";
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