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423cee85 1package charnames;
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2use strict;
3use warnings;
51cf30b6 4use File::Spec;
641a285b 5our $VERSION = '1.18';
b75c8c73 6
52fb7278 7use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits
423cee85 8
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9# The hashes are stored as utf8 strings. This makes it easier to deal with
10# sequences. I (khw) also tried making Name.pl utf8, but it slowed things
11# down by a factor of 7. I then tried making Name.pl store the ut8
12# equivalents but not calling them utf8. That led to similar speed as leaving
13# it alone, but since that is harder for a human to parse, I left it as-is.
14
232cbbee 15my %system_aliases = (
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16 # Icky 3.2 names with parentheses.
17 'LINE FEED' => pack("U", 0x0A), # LINE FEED (LF)
18 'FORM FEED' => pack("U", 0x0C), # FORM FEED (FF)
19 'CARRIAGE RETURN' => pack("U", 0x0D), # CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
20 'NEXT LINE' => pack("U", 0x85), # NEXT LINE (NEL)
21
22 # Some variant names from Wikipedia
23 'SINGLE-SHIFT 2' => pack("U", 0x8E),
24 'SINGLE-SHIFT 3' => pack("U", 0x8F),
25 'PRIVATE USE 1' => pack("U", 0x91),
26 'PRIVATE USE 2' => pack("U", 0x92),
27 'START OF PROTECTED AREA' => pack("U", 0x96),
28 'END OF PROTECTED AREA' => pack("U", 0x97),
29
30 # Convenience. Standard abbreviations for the controls
31 'NUL' => pack("U", 0x00), # NULL
32 'SOH' => pack("U", 0x01), # START OF HEADING
33 'STX' => pack("U", 0x02), # START OF TEXT
34 'ETX' => pack("U", 0x03), # END OF TEXT
35 'EOT' => pack("U", 0x04), # END OF TRANSMISSION
36 'ENQ' => pack("U", 0x05), # ENQUIRY
37 'ACK' => pack("U", 0x06), # ACKNOWLEDGE
3ffed8c2 38 'BEL' => pack("U", 0x07), # ALERT; formerly BELL
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39 'BS' => pack("U", 0x08), # BACKSPACE
40 'HT' => pack("U", 0x09), # HORIZONTAL TABULATION
41 'LF' => pack("U", 0x0A), # LINE FEED (LF)
42 'VT' => pack("U", 0x0B), # VERTICAL TABULATION
43 'FF' => pack("U", 0x0C), # FORM FEED (FF)
44 'CR' => pack("U", 0x0D), # CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
45 'SO' => pack("U", 0x0E), # SHIFT OUT
46 'SI' => pack("U", 0x0F), # SHIFT IN
47 'DLE' => pack("U", 0x10), # DATA LINK ESCAPE
48 'DC1' => pack("U", 0x11), # DEVICE CONTROL ONE
49 'DC2' => pack("U", 0x12), # DEVICE CONTROL TWO
50 'DC3' => pack("U", 0x13), # DEVICE CONTROL THREE
51 'DC4' => pack("U", 0x14), # DEVICE CONTROL FOUR
52 'NAK' => pack("U", 0x15), # NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGE
53 'SYN' => pack("U", 0x16), # SYNCHRONOUS IDLE
54 'ETB' => pack("U", 0x17), # END OF TRANSMISSION BLOCK
55 'CAN' => pack("U", 0x18), # CANCEL
56 'EOM' => pack("U", 0x19), # END OF MEDIUM
57 'SUB' => pack("U", 0x1A), # SUBSTITUTE
58 'ESC' => pack("U", 0x1B), # ESCAPE
59 'FS' => pack("U", 0x1C), # FILE SEPARATOR
60 'GS' => pack("U", 0x1D), # GROUP SEPARATOR
61 'RS' => pack("U", 0x1E), # RECORD SEPARATOR
62 'US' => pack("U", 0x1F), # UNIT SEPARATOR
63 'DEL' => pack("U", 0x7F), # DELETE
64 'BPH' => pack("U", 0x82), # BREAK PERMITTED HERE
65 'NBH' => pack("U", 0x83), # NO BREAK HERE
66 'NEL' => pack("U", 0x85), # NEXT LINE (NEL)
67 'SSA' => pack("U", 0x86), # START OF SELECTED AREA
68 'ESA' => pack("U", 0x87), # END OF SELECTED AREA
69 'HTS' => pack("U", 0x88), # CHARACTER TABULATION SET
70 'HTJ' => pack("U", 0x89), # CHARACTER TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION
71 'VTS' => pack("U", 0x8A), # LINE TABULATION SET
72 'PLD' => pack("U", 0x8B), # PARTIAL LINE FORWARD
73 'PLU' => pack("U", 0x8C), # PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD
74 'RI ' => pack("U", 0x8D), # REVERSE LINE FEED
75 'SS2' => pack("U", 0x8E), # SINGLE SHIFT TWO
76 'SS3' => pack("U", 0x8F), # SINGLE SHIFT THREE
77 'DCS' => pack("U", 0x90), # DEVICE CONTROL STRING
78 'PU1' => pack("U", 0x91), # PRIVATE USE ONE
79 'PU2' => pack("U", 0x92), # PRIVATE USE TWO
80 'STS' => pack("U", 0x93), # SET TRANSMIT STATE
81 'CCH' => pack("U", 0x94), # CANCEL CHARACTER
82 'MW ' => pack("U", 0x95), # MESSAGE WAITING
83 'SPA' => pack("U", 0x96), # START OF GUARDED AREA
84 'EPA' => pack("U", 0x97), # END OF GUARDED AREA
85 'SOS' => pack("U", 0x98), # START OF STRING
86 'SCI' => pack("U", 0x9A), # SINGLE CHARACTER INTRODUCER
87 'CSI' => pack("U", 0x9B), # CONTROL SEQUENCE INTRODUCER
88 'ST ' => pack("U", 0x9C), # STRING TERMINATOR
89 'OSC' => pack("U", 0x9D), # OPERATING SYSTEM COMMAND
90 'PM ' => pack("U", 0x9E), # PRIVACY MESSAGE
91 'APC' => pack("U", 0x9F), # APPLICATION PROGRAM COMMAND
92
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93 # There are no names for these in the Unicode standard; perhaps should be
94 # deprecated, but then again there are no alternative names, so am not
95 # deprecating. And if did, the code would have to change to not recommend
96 # an alternative for these.
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97 'PADDING CHARACTER' => pack("U", 0x80),
98 'PAD' => pack("U", 0x80),
99 'HIGH OCTET PRESET' => pack("U", 0x81),
100 'HOP' => pack("U", 0x81),
101 'INDEX' => pack("U", 0x84),
102 'IND' => pack("U", 0x84),
103 'SINGLE GRAPHIC CHARACTER INTRODUCER' => pack("U", 0x99),
104 'SGC' => pack("U", 0x99),
105
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106 # More convenience. For further convenience, it is suggested some way of
107 # using the NamesList aliases be implemented, but there are ambiguities in
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108 # NamesList.txt
109 'BOM' => pack("U", 0xFEFF), # BYTE ORDER MARK
110 'BYTE ORDER MARK'=> pack("U", 0xFEFF),
111 'CGJ' => pack("U", 0x034F), # COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER
112 'FVS1' => pack("U", 0x180B), # MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR ONE
113 'FVS2' => pack("U", 0x180C), # MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR TWO
114 'FVS3' => pack("U", 0x180D), # MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR THREE
115 'LRE' => pack("U", 0x202A), # LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING
116 'LRM' => pack("U", 0x200E), # LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
117 'LRO' => pack("U", 0x202D), # LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE
118 'MMSP' => pack("U", 0x205F), # MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
119 'MVS' => pack("U", 0x180E), # MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR
120 'NBSP' => pack("U", 0x00A0), # NO-BREAK SPACE
121 'NNBSP' => pack("U", 0x202F), # NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
122 'PDF' => pack("U", 0x202C), # POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
123 'RLE' => pack("U", 0x202B), # RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING
124 'RLM' => pack("U", 0x200F), # RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
125 'RLO' => pack("U", 0x202E), # RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
126 'SHY' => pack("U", 0x00AD), # SOFT HYPHEN
127 'VS1' => pack("U", 0xFE00), # VARIATION SELECTOR-1
128 'VS2' => pack("U", 0xFE01), # VARIATION SELECTOR-2
129 'VS3' => pack("U", 0xFE02), # VARIATION SELECTOR-3
130 'VS4' => pack("U", 0xFE03), # VARIATION SELECTOR-4
131 'VS5' => pack("U", 0xFE04), # VARIATION SELECTOR-5
132 'VS6' => pack("U", 0xFE05), # VARIATION SELECTOR-6
133 'VS7' => pack("U", 0xFE06), # VARIATION SELECTOR-7
134 'VS8' => pack("U", 0xFE07), # VARIATION SELECTOR-8
135 'VS9' => pack("U", 0xFE08), # VARIATION SELECTOR-9
136 'VS10' => pack("U", 0xFE09), # VARIATION SELECTOR-10
137 'VS11' => pack("U", 0xFE0A), # VARIATION SELECTOR-11
138 'VS12' => pack("U", 0xFE0B), # VARIATION SELECTOR-12
139 'VS13' => pack("U", 0xFE0C), # VARIATION SELECTOR-13
140 'VS14' => pack("U", 0xFE0D), # VARIATION SELECTOR-14
141 'VS15' => pack("U", 0xFE0E), # VARIATION SELECTOR-15
142 'VS16' => pack("U", 0xFE0F), # VARIATION SELECTOR-16
143 'VS17' => pack("U", 0xE0100), # VARIATION SELECTOR-17
144 'VS18' => pack("U", 0xE0101), # VARIATION SELECTOR-18
145 'VS19' => pack("U", 0xE0102), # VARIATION SELECTOR-19
146 'VS20' => pack("U", 0xE0103), # VARIATION SELECTOR-20
147 'VS21' => pack("U", 0xE0104), # VARIATION SELECTOR-21
148 'VS22' => pack("U", 0xE0105), # VARIATION SELECTOR-22
149 'VS23' => pack("U", 0xE0106), # VARIATION SELECTOR-23
150 'VS24' => pack("U", 0xE0107), # VARIATION SELECTOR-24
151 'VS25' => pack("U", 0xE0108), # VARIATION SELECTOR-25
152 'VS26' => pack("U", 0xE0109), # VARIATION SELECTOR-26
153 'VS27' => pack("U", 0xE010A), # VARIATION SELECTOR-27
154 'VS28' => pack("U", 0xE010B), # VARIATION SELECTOR-28
155 'VS29' => pack("U", 0xE010C), # VARIATION SELECTOR-29
156 'VS30' => pack("U", 0xE010D), # VARIATION SELECTOR-30
157 'VS31' => pack("U", 0xE010E), # VARIATION SELECTOR-31
158 'VS32' => pack("U", 0xE010F), # VARIATION SELECTOR-32
159 'VS33' => pack("U", 0xE0110), # VARIATION SELECTOR-33
160 'VS34' => pack("U", 0xE0111), # VARIATION SELECTOR-34
161 'VS35' => pack("U", 0xE0112), # VARIATION SELECTOR-35
162 'VS36' => pack("U", 0xE0113), # VARIATION SELECTOR-36
163 'VS37' => pack("U", 0xE0114), # VARIATION SELECTOR-37
164 'VS38' => pack("U", 0xE0115), # VARIATION SELECTOR-38
165 'VS39' => pack("U", 0xE0116), # VARIATION SELECTOR-39
166 'VS40' => pack("U", 0xE0117), # VARIATION SELECTOR-40
167 'VS41' => pack("U", 0xE0118), # VARIATION SELECTOR-41
168 'VS42' => pack("U", 0xE0119), # VARIATION SELECTOR-42
169 'VS43' => pack("U", 0xE011A), # VARIATION SELECTOR-43
170 'VS44' => pack("U", 0xE011B), # VARIATION SELECTOR-44
171 'VS45' => pack("U", 0xE011C), # VARIATION SELECTOR-45
172 'VS46' => pack("U", 0xE011D), # VARIATION SELECTOR-46
173 'VS47' => pack("U", 0xE011E), # VARIATION SELECTOR-47
174 'VS48' => pack("U", 0xE011F), # VARIATION SELECTOR-48
175 'VS49' => pack("U", 0xE0120), # VARIATION SELECTOR-49
176 'VS50' => pack("U", 0xE0121), # VARIATION SELECTOR-50
177 'VS51' => pack("U", 0xE0122), # VARIATION SELECTOR-51
178 'VS52' => pack("U", 0xE0123), # VARIATION SELECTOR-52
179 'VS53' => pack("U", 0xE0124), # VARIATION SELECTOR-53
180 'VS54' => pack("U", 0xE0125), # VARIATION SELECTOR-54
181 'VS55' => pack("U", 0xE0126), # VARIATION SELECTOR-55
182 'VS56' => pack("U", 0xE0127), # VARIATION SELECTOR-56
183 'VS57' => pack("U", 0xE0128), # VARIATION SELECTOR-57
184 'VS58' => pack("U", 0xE0129), # VARIATION SELECTOR-58
185 'VS59' => pack("U", 0xE012A), # VARIATION SELECTOR-59
186 'VS60' => pack("U", 0xE012B), # VARIATION SELECTOR-60
187 'VS61' => pack("U", 0xE012C), # VARIATION SELECTOR-61
188 'VS62' => pack("U", 0xE012D), # VARIATION SELECTOR-62
189 'VS63' => pack("U", 0xE012E), # VARIATION SELECTOR-63
190 'VS64' => pack("U", 0xE012F), # VARIATION SELECTOR-64
191 'VS65' => pack("U", 0xE0130), # VARIATION SELECTOR-65
192 'VS66' => pack("U", 0xE0131), # VARIATION SELECTOR-66
193 'VS67' => pack("U", 0xE0132), # VARIATION SELECTOR-67
194 'VS68' => pack("U", 0xE0133), # VARIATION SELECTOR-68
195 'VS69' => pack("U", 0xE0134), # VARIATION SELECTOR-69
196 'VS70' => pack("U", 0xE0135), # VARIATION SELECTOR-70
197 'VS71' => pack("U", 0xE0136), # VARIATION SELECTOR-71
198 'VS72' => pack("U", 0xE0137), # VARIATION SELECTOR-72
199 'VS73' => pack("U", 0xE0138), # VARIATION SELECTOR-73
200 'VS74' => pack("U", 0xE0139), # VARIATION SELECTOR-74
201 'VS75' => pack("U", 0xE013A), # VARIATION SELECTOR-75
202 'VS76' => pack("U", 0xE013B), # VARIATION SELECTOR-76
203 'VS77' => pack("U", 0xE013C), # VARIATION SELECTOR-77
204 'VS78' => pack("U", 0xE013D), # VARIATION SELECTOR-78
205 'VS79' => pack("U", 0xE013E), # VARIATION SELECTOR-79
206 'VS80' => pack("U", 0xE013F), # VARIATION SELECTOR-80
207 'VS81' => pack("U", 0xE0140), # VARIATION SELECTOR-81
208 'VS82' => pack("U", 0xE0141), # VARIATION SELECTOR-82
209 'VS83' => pack("U", 0xE0142), # VARIATION SELECTOR-83
210 'VS84' => pack("U", 0xE0143), # VARIATION SELECTOR-84
211 'VS85' => pack("U", 0xE0144), # VARIATION SELECTOR-85
212 'VS86' => pack("U", 0xE0145), # VARIATION SELECTOR-86
213 'VS87' => pack("U", 0xE0146), # VARIATION SELECTOR-87
214 'VS88' => pack("U", 0xE0147), # VARIATION SELECTOR-88
215 'VS89' => pack("U", 0xE0148), # VARIATION SELECTOR-89
216 'VS90' => pack("U", 0xE0149), # VARIATION SELECTOR-90
217 'VS91' => pack("U", 0xE014A), # VARIATION SELECTOR-91
218 'VS92' => pack("U", 0xE014B), # VARIATION SELECTOR-92
219 'VS93' => pack("U", 0xE014C), # VARIATION SELECTOR-93
220 'VS94' => pack("U", 0xE014D), # VARIATION SELECTOR-94
221 'VS95' => pack("U", 0xE014E), # VARIATION SELECTOR-95
222 'VS96' => pack("U", 0xE014F), # VARIATION SELECTOR-96
223 'VS97' => pack("U", 0xE0150), # VARIATION SELECTOR-97
224 'VS98' => pack("U", 0xE0151), # VARIATION SELECTOR-98
225 'VS99' => pack("U", 0xE0152), # VARIATION SELECTOR-99
226 'VS100' => pack("U", 0xE0153), # VARIATION SELECTOR-100
227 'VS101' => pack("U", 0xE0154), # VARIATION SELECTOR-101
228 'VS102' => pack("U", 0xE0155), # VARIATION SELECTOR-102
229 'VS103' => pack("U", 0xE0156), # VARIATION SELECTOR-103
230 'VS104' => pack("U", 0xE0157), # VARIATION SELECTOR-104
231 'VS105' => pack("U", 0xE0158), # VARIATION SELECTOR-105
232 'VS106' => pack("U", 0xE0159), # VARIATION SELECTOR-106
233 'VS107' => pack("U", 0xE015A), # VARIATION SELECTOR-107
234 'VS108' => pack("U", 0xE015B), # VARIATION SELECTOR-108
235 'VS109' => pack("U", 0xE015C), # VARIATION SELECTOR-109
236 'VS110' => pack("U", 0xE015D), # VARIATION SELECTOR-110
237 'VS111' => pack("U", 0xE015E), # VARIATION SELECTOR-111
238 'VS112' => pack("U", 0xE015F), # VARIATION SELECTOR-112
239 'VS113' => pack("U", 0xE0160), # VARIATION SELECTOR-113
240 'VS114' => pack("U", 0xE0161), # VARIATION SELECTOR-114
241 'VS115' => pack("U", 0xE0162), # VARIATION SELECTOR-115
242 'VS116' => pack("U", 0xE0163), # VARIATION SELECTOR-116
243 'VS117' => pack("U", 0xE0164), # VARIATION SELECTOR-117
244 'VS118' => pack("U", 0xE0165), # VARIATION SELECTOR-118
245 'VS119' => pack("U", 0xE0166), # VARIATION SELECTOR-119
246 'VS120' => pack("U", 0xE0167), # VARIATION SELECTOR-120
247 'VS121' => pack("U", 0xE0168), # VARIATION SELECTOR-121
248 'VS122' => pack("U", 0xE0169), # VARIATION SELECTOR-122
249 'VS123' => pack("U", 0xE016A), # VARIATION SELECTOR-123
250 'VS124' => pack("U", 0xE016B), # VARIATION SELECTOR-124
251 'VS125' => pack("U", 0xE016C), # VARIATION SELECTOR-125
252 'VS126' => pack("U", 0xE016D), # VARIATION SELECTOR-126
253 'VS127' => pack("U", 0xE016E), # VARIATION SELECTOR-127
254 'VS128' => pack("U", 0xE016F), # VARIATION SELECTOR-128
255 'VS129' => pack("U", 0xE0170), # VARIATION SELECTOR-129
256 'VS130' => pack("U", 0xE0171), # VARIATION SELECTOR-130
257 'VS131' => pack("U", 0xE0172), # VARIATION SELECTOR-131
258 'VS132' => pack("U", 0xE0173), # VARIATION SELECTOR-132
259 'VS133' => pack("U", 0xE0174), # VARIATION SELECTOR-133
260 'VS134' => pack("U", 0xE0175), # VARIATION SELECTOR-134
261 'VS135' => pack("U", 0xE0176), # VARIATION SELECTOR-135
262 'VS136' => pack("U", 0xE0177), # VARIATION SELECTOR-136
263 'VS137' => pack("U", 0xE0178), # VARIATION SELECTOR-137
264 'VS138' => pack("U", 0xE0179), # VARIATION SELECTOR-138
265 'VS139' => pack("U", 0xE017A), # VARIATION SELECTOR-139
266 'VS140' => pack("U", 0xE017B), # VARIATION SELECTOR-140
267 'VS141' => pack("U", 0xE017C), # VARIATION SELECTOR-141
268 'VS142' => pack("U", 0xE017D), # VARIATION SELECTOR-142
269 'VS143' => pack("U", 0xE017E), # VARIATION SELECTOR-143
270 'VS144' => pack("U", 0xE017F), # VARIATION SELECTOR-144
271 'VS145' => pack("U", 0xE0180), # VARIATION SELECTOR-145
272 'VS146' => pack("U", 0xE0181), # VARIATION SELECTOR-146
273 'VS147' => pack("U", 0xE0182), # VARIATION SELECTOR-147
274 'VS148' => pack("U", 0xE0183), # VARIATION SELECTOR-148
275 'VS149' => pack("U", 0xE0184), # VARIATION SELECTOR-149
276 'VS150' => pack("U", 0xE0185), # VARIATION SELECTOR-150
277 'VS151' => pack("U", 0xE0186), # VARIATION SELECTOR-151
278 'VS152' => pack("U", 0xE0187), # VARIATION SELECTOR-152
279 'VS153' => pack("U", 0xE0188), # VARIATION SELECTOR-153
280 'VS154' => pack("U", 0xE0189), # VARIATION SELECTOR-154
281 'VS155' => pack("U", 0xE018A), # VARIATION SELECTOR-155
282 'VS156' => pack("U", 0xE018B), # VARIATION SELECTOR-156
283 'VS157' => pack("U", 0xE018C), # VARIATION SELECTOR-157
284 'VS158' => pack("U", 0xE018D), # VARIATION SELECTOR-158
285 'VS159' => pack("U", 0xE018E), # VARIATION SELECTOR-159
286 'VS160' => pack("U", 0xE018F), # VARIATION SELECTOR-160
287 'VS161' => pack("U", 0xE0190), # VARIATION SELECTOR-161
288 'VS162' => pack("U", 0xE0191), # VARIATION SELECTOR-162
289 'VS163' => pack("U", 0xE0192), # VARIATION SELECTOR-163
290 'VS164' => pack("U", 0xE0193), # VARIATION SELECTOR-164
291 'VS165' => pack("U", 0xE0194), # VARIATION SELECTOR-165
292 'VS166' => pack("U", 0xE0195), # VARIATION SELECTOR-166
293 'VS167' => pack("U", 0xE0196), # VARIATION SELECTOR-167
294 'VS168' => pack("U", 0xE0197), # VARIATION SELECTOR-168
295 'VS169' => pack("U", 0xE0198), # VARIATION SELECTOR-169
296 'VS170' => pack("U", 0xE0199), # VARIATION SELECTOR-170
297 'VS171' => pack("U", 0xE019A), # VARIATION SELECTOR-171
298 'VS172' => pack("U", 0xE019B), # VARIATION SELECTOR-172
299 'VS173' => pack("U", 0xE019C), # VARIATION SELECTOR-173
300 'VS174' => pack("U", 0xE019D), # VARIATION SELECTOR-174
301 'VS175' => pack("U", 0xE019E), # VARIATION SELECTOR-175
302 'VS176' => pack("U", 0xE019F), # VARIATION SELECTOR-176
303 'VS177' => pack("U", 0xE01A0), # VARIATION SELECTOR-177
304 'VS178' => pack("U", 0xE01A1), # VARIATION SELECTOR-178
305 'VS179' => pack("U", 0xE01A2), # VARIATION SELECTOR-179
306 'VS180' => pack("U", 0xE01A3), # VARIATION SELECTOR-180
307 'VS181' => pack("U", 0xE01A4), # VARIATION SELECTOR-181
308 'VS182' => pack("U", 0xE01A5), # VARIATION SELECTOR-182
309 'VS183' => pack("U", 0xE01A6), # VARIATION SELECTOR-183
310 'VS184' => pack("U", 0xE01A7), # VARIATION SELECTOR-184
311 'VS185' => pack("U", 0xE01A8), # VARIATION SELECTOR-185
312 'VS186' => pack("U", 0xE01A9), # VARIATION SELECTOR-186
313 'VS187' => pack("U", 0xE01AA), # VARIATION SELECTOR-187
314 'VS188' => pack("U", 0xE01AB), # VARIATION SELECTOR-188
315 'VS189' => pack("U", 0xE01AC), # VARIATION SELECTOR-189
316 'VS190' => pack("U", 0xE01AD), # VARIATION SELECTOR-190
317 'VS191' => pack("U", 0xE01AE), # VARIATION SELECTOR-191
318 'VS192' => pack("U", 0xE01AF), # VARIATION SELECTOR-192
319 'VS193' => pack("U", 0xE01B0), # VARIATION SELECTOR-193
320 'VS194' => pack("U", 0xE01B1), # VARIATION SELECTOR-194
321 'VS195' => pack("U", 0xE01B2), # VARIATION SELECTOR-195
322 'VS196' => pack("U", 0xE01B3), # VARIATION SELECTOR-196
323 'VS197' => pack("U", 0xE01B4), # VARIATION SELECTOR-197
324 'VS198' => pack("U", 0xE01B5), # VARIATION SELECTOR-198
325 'VS199' => pack("U", 0xE01B6), # VARIATION SELECTOR-199
326 'VS200' => pack("U", 0xE01B7), # VARIATION SELECTOR-200
327 'VS201' => pack("U", 0xE01B8), # VARIATION SELECTOR-201
328 'VS202' => pack("U", 0xE01B9), # VARIATION SELECTOR-202
329 'VS203' => pack("U", 0xE01BA), # VARIATION SELECTOR-203
330 'VS204' => pack("U", 0xE01BB), # VARIATION SELECTOR-204
331 'VS205' => pack("U", 0xE01BC), # VARIATION SELECTOR-205
332 'VS206' => pack("U", 0xE01BD), # VARIATION SELECTOR-206
333 'VS207' => pack("U", 0xE01BE), # VARIATION SELECTOR-207
334 'VS208' => pack("U", 0xE01BF), # VARIATION SELECTOR-208
335 'VS209' => pack("U", 0xE01C0), # VARIATION SELECTOR-209
336 'VS210' => pack("U", 0xE01C1), # VARIATION SELECTOR-210
337 'VS211' => pack("U", 0xE01C2), # VARIATION SELECTOR-211
338 'VS212' => pack("U", 0xE01C3), # VARIATION SELECTOR-212
339 'VS213' => pack("U", 0xE01C4), # VARIATION SELECTOR-213
340 'VS214' => pack("U", 0xE01C5), # VARIATION SELECTOR-214
341 'VS215' => pack("U", 0xE01C6), # VARIATION SELECTOR-215
342 'VS216' => pack("U", 0xE01C7), # VARIATION SELECTOR-216
343 'VS217' => pack("U", 0xE01C8), # VARIATION SELECTOR-217
344 'VS218' => pack("U", 0xE01C9), # VARIATION SELECTOR-218
345 'VS219' => pack("U", 0xE01CA), # VARIATION SELECTOR-219
346 'VS220' => pack("U", 0xE01CB), # VARIATION SELECTOR-220
347 'VS221' => pack("U", 0xE01CC), # VARIATION SELECTOR-221
348 'VS222' => pack("U", 0xE01CD), # VARIATION SELECTOR-222
349 'VS223' => pack("U", 0xE01CE), # VARIATION SELECTOR-223
350 'VS224' => pack("U", 0xE01CF), # VARIATION SELECTOR-224
351 'VS225' => pack("U", 0xE01D0), # VARIATION SELECTOR-225
352 'VS226' => pack("U", 0xE01D1), # VARIATION SELECTOR-226
353 'VS227' => pack("U", 0xE01D2), # VARIATION SELECTOR-227
354 'VS228' => pack("U", 0xE01D3), # VARIATION SELECTOR-228
355 'VS229' => pack("U", 0xE01D4), # VARIATION SELECTOR-229
356 'VS230' => pack("U", 0xE01D5), # VARIATION SELECTOR-230
357 'VS231' => pack("U", 0xE01D6), # VARIATION SELECTOR-231
358 'VS232' => pack("U", 0xE01D7), # VARIATION SELECTOR-232
359 'VS233' => pack("U", 0xE01D8), # VARIATION SELECTOR-233
360 'VS234' => pack("U", 0xE01D9), # VARIATION SELECTOR-234
361 'VS235' => pack("U", 0xE01DA), # VARIATION SELECTOR-235
362 'VS236' => pack("U", 0xE01DB), # VARIATION SELECTOR-236
363 'VS237' => pack("U", 0xE01DC), # VARIATION SELECTOR-237
364 'VS238' => pack("U", 0xE01DD), # VARIATION SELECTOR-238
365 'VS239' => pack("U", 0xE01DE), # VARIATION SELECTOR-239
366 'VS240' => pack("U", 0xE01DF), # VARIATION SELECTOR-240
367 'VS241' => pack("U", 0xE01E0), # VARIATION SELECTOR-241
368 'VS242' => pack("U", 0xE01E1), # VARIATION SELECTOR-242
369 'VS243' => pack("U", 0xE01E2), # VARIATION SELECTOR-243
370 'VS244' => pack("U", 0xE01E3), # VARIATION SELECTOR-244
371 'VS245' => pack("U", 0xE01E4), # VARIATION SELECTOR-245
372 'VS246' => pack("U", 0xE01E5), # VARIATION SELECTOR-246
373 'VS247' => pack("U", 0xE01E6), # VARIATION SELECTOR-247
374 'VS248' => pack("U", 0xE01E7), # VARIATION SELECTOR-248
375 'VS249' => pack("U", 0xE01E8), # VARIATION SELECTOR-249
376 'VS250' => pack("U", 0xE01E9), # VARIATION SELECTOR-250
377 'VS251' => pack("U", 0xE01EA), # VARIATION SELECTOR-251
378 'VS252' => pack("U", 0xE01EB), # VARIATION SELECTOR-252
379 'VS253' => pack("U", 0xE01EC), # VARIATION SELECTOR-253
380 'VS254' => pack("U", 0xE01ED), # VARIATION SELECTOR-254
381 'VS255' => pack("U", 0xE01EE), # VARIATION SELECTOR-255
382 'VS256' => pack("U", 0xE01EF), # VARIATION SELECTOR-256
383 'WJ' => pack("U", 0x2060), # WORD JOINER
384 'ZWJ' => pack("U", 0x200D), # ZERO WIDTH JOINER
385 'ZWNJ' => pack("U", 0x200C), # ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
386 'ZWSP' => pack("U", 0x200B), # ZERO WIDTH SPACE
387);
52ea3e69 388
232cbbee 389my %deprecated_aliases = (
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390 # Pre-3.2 compatibility (only for the first 256 characters).
391 # Use of these gives deprecated message.
392 'HORIZONTAL TABULATION' => pack("U", 0x09), # CHARACTER TABULATION
393 'VERTICAL TABULATION' => pack("U", 0x0B), # LINE TABULATION
394 'FILE SEPARATOR' => pack("U", 0x1C), # INFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR
395 'GROUP SEPARATOR' => pack("U", 0x1D), # INFORMATION SEPARATOR THREE
396 'RECORD SEPARATOR' => pack("U", 0x1E), # INFORMATION SEPARATOR TWO
397 'UNIT SEPARATOR' => pack("U", 0x1F), # INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE
398 'HORIZONTAL TABULATION SET' => pack("U", 0x88), # CHARACTER TABULATION SET
399 'HORIZONTAL TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION' => pack("U", 0x89), # CHARACTER TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION
400 'PARTIAL LINE DOWN' => pack("U", 0x8B), # PARTIAL LINE FORWARD
401 'PARTIAL LINE UP' => pack("U", 0x8C), # PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD
402 'VERTICAL TABULATION SET' => pack("U", 0x8A), # LINE TABULATION SET
403 'REVERSE INDEX' => pack("U", 0x8D), # REVERSE LINE FEED
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405 # Unicode 6.0 co-opted this for U+1F514, so deprecate it for now.
406 'BELL' => pack("U", 0x07),
bcc08981 407);
52ea3e69 408
84374e30 409
cc26ddeb 410my $txt; # The table of official character names
281aa49e 411
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412my %full_names_cache; # Holds already-looked-up names, so don't have to
413# re-look them up again. The previous versions of charnames had scoping
414# bugs. For example if we use script A in one scope and find and cache
415# what Z resolves to, we can't use that cache in a different scope that
416# uses script B instead of A, as Z might be an entirely different letter
417# there; or there might be different aliases in effect in different
418# scopes, or :short may be in effect or not effect in different scopes,
419# or various combinations thereof. This was solved in this version
420# mostly by moving things to %^H. But some things couldn't be moved
421# there. One of them was the cache of runtime looked-up names, in part
422# because %^H is read-only at runtime. I (khw) don't know why the cache
423# was run-time only in the previous versions: perhaps oversight; perhaps
424# that compile time looking doesn't happen in a loop so didn't think it
425# was worthwhile; perhaps not wanting to make the cache too large. But
426# I decided to make it compile time as well; this could easily be
427# changed.
428# Anyway, this hash is not scoped, and is added to at runtime. It
429# doesn't have scoping problems because the data in it is restricted to
430# official names, which are always invariant, and we only set it and
431# look at it at during :full lookups, so is unaffected by any other
432# scoped options. I put this in to maintain parity with the older
433# version. If desired, a %short_names cache could also be made, as well
434# as one for each script, say in %script_names_cache, with each key
435# being a hash for a script named in a 'use charnames' statement. I
436# decided not to do that for now, just because it's added complication,
437# and because I'm just trying to maintain parity, not extend it.
438
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439# Designed so that test decimal first, and then hex. Leading zeros
440# imply non-decimal, as do non-[0-9]
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441my $decimal_qr = qr/^[1-9]\d*$/;
442
443# Returns the hex number in $1.
444my $hex_qr = qr/^(?:[Uu]\+|0[xX])?([[:xdigit:]]+)$/;
423cee85 445
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446sub croak
447{
448 require Carp; goto &Carp::croak;
449} # croak
450
451sub carp
452{
453 require Carp; goto &Carp::carp;
454} # carp
455
cc26ddeb 456sub alias (@) # Set up a single alias
35c0985d 457{
35c0985d 458 my $alias = ref $_[0] ? $_[0] : { @_ };
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459 foreach my $name (keys %$alias) {
460 my $value = $alias->{$name};
52fb7278 461 next unless defined $value; # Omit if screwed up.
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462
463 # Is slightly slower to just after this statement see if it is
464 # decimal, since we already know it is after having converted from
465 # hex, but makes the code easier to maintain, and is called
466 # infrequently, only at compile-time
467 if ($value !~ $decimal_qr && $value =~ $hex_qr) {
468 $value = CORE::hex $1;
469 }
232cbbee 470 if ($value =~ $decimal_qr) {
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471 no warnings 'utf8'; # Allow even illegal characters
472 $^H{charnames_ord_aliases}{$name} = pack("U", $value);
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473
474 # Use a canonical form.
b1c167a3 475 $^H{charnames_inverse_ords}{sprintf("%05X", $value)} = $name;
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476 }
477 else {
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478 # XXX validate syntax when deprecation cycle complete. ie. start
479 # with an alpha only, etc.
480 $^H{charnames_name_aliases}{$name} = $value;
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481 }
482 }
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483} # alias
484
5a7fb30a 485sub not_legal_use_bytes_msg {
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486 my ($name, $utf8) = @_;
487 my $return;
488
489 if (length($utf8) == 1) {
490 $return = sprintf("Character 0x%04x with name '%s' is", ord $utf8, $name);
491 } else {
492 $return = sprintf("String with name '%s' (and ordinals %s) contains character(s)", $name, join(" ", map { sprintf "0x%04X", ord $_ } split(//, $utf8)));
493 }
494 return $return . " above 0xFF with 'use bytes' in effect";
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495}
496
281aa49e 497sub alias_file ($) # Reads a file containing alias definitions
35c0985d 498{
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499 my ($arg, $file) = @_;
500 if (-f $arg && File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute ($arg)) {
501 $file = $arg;
502 }
503 elsif ($arg =~ m/^\w+$/) {
504 $file = "unicore/${arg}_alias.pl";
505 }
506 else {
507 croak "Charnames alias files can only have identifier characters";
508 }
35c0985d 509 if (my @alias = do $file) {
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510 @alias == 1 && !defined $alias[0] and
511 croak "$file cannot be used as alias file for charnames";
512 @alias % 2 and
513 croak "$file did not return a (valid) list of alias pairs";
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514 alias (@alias);
515 return (1);
516 }
517 0;
518} # alias_file
519
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520# For use when don't import anything. This structure must be kept in
521# sync with the one that import() fills up.
522my %dummy_H = (
523 charnames_stringified_names => "",
524 charnames_stringified_ords => "",
525 charnames_scripts => "",
526 charnames_full => 1,
527 charnames_short => 0,
528 );
529
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531sub lookup_name ($$$) {
532 my ($name, $wants_ord, $runtime) = @_;
63098191 533
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534 # Lookup the name or sequence $name in the tables. If $wants_ord is false,
535 # returns the string equivalent of $name; if true, returns the ordinal value
536 # instead, but in this case $name must not be a sequence; otherwise undef is
537 # returned and a warning raised. $runtime is 0 if compiletime, otherwise
538 # gives the number of stack frames to go back to get the application caller
539 # info.
540 # If $name is not found, returns undef in runtime with no warning; and in
541 # compiletime, the Unicode replacement character, with a warning.
63098191 542
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543 # It looks first in the aliases, then in the large table of official Unicode
544 # names.
84374e30 545
9deebca3 546 my $utf8; # The string result
e79869e1 547 my $save_input;
b177ca84 548
84374e30 549 if ($runtime) {
03f95285 550
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551 my $hints_ref = (caller($runtime))[10];
552
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553 # If we didn't import anything (which happens with 'use charnames ()',
554 # substitute a dummy structure.
555 $hints_ref = \%dummy_H if ! defined $hints_ref
556 || ! defined $hints_ref->{charnames_full};
557
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558 # At runtime, but currently not at compile time, $^H gets
559 # stringified, so un-stringify back to the original data structures.
560 # These get thrown away by perl before the next invocation
561 # Also fill in the hash with the non-stringified data.
03f95285 562 # N.B. New fields must be also added to %dummy_H
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564 %{$^H{charnames_name_aliases}} = split ',',
565 $hints_ref->{charnames_stringified_names};
566 %{$^H{charnames_ord_aliases}} = split ',',
567 $hints_ref->{charnames_stringified_ords};
e79869e1 568 $^H{charnames_scripts} = $hints_ref->{charnames_scripts};
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569 $^H{charnames_full} = $hints_ref->{charnames_full};
570 $^H{charnames_short} = $hints_ref->{charnames_short};
571 }
572
232cbbee 573 # User alias should be checked first or else can't override ours, and if we
9deebca3 574 # were to add any, could conflict with theirs.
84374e30 575 if (exists $^H{charnames_ord_aliases}{$name}) {
f1ccd77d 576 $utf8 = $^H{charnames_ord_aliases}{$name};
16036bcd 577 }
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578 elsif (exists $^H{charnames_name_aliases}{$name}) {
579 $name = $^H{charnames_name_aliases}{$name};
e79869e1 580 $save_input = $name; # Cache the result for any error message
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581 }
582 elsif (exists $system_aliases{$name}) {
f1ccd77d 583 $utf8 = $system_aliases{$name};
52ea3e69 584 }
232cbbee 585 elsif (exists $deprecated_aliases{$name}) {
35c0985d 586 require warnings;
fb121860 587 warnings::warnif('deprecated', "Unicode character name \"$name\" is deprecated, use \"" . viacode(ord $deprecated_aliases{$name}) . "\" instead");
f1ccd77d 588 $utf8 = $deprecated_aliases{$name};
52ea3e69 589 }
b177ca84 590
423cee85 591 my @off;
52ea3e69 592
f1ccd77d 593 if (! defined $utf8) {
35c0985d 594
9deebca3 595 # See if has looked this input up earlier.
84374e30 596 if ($^H{charnames_full} && exists $full_names_cache{$name}) {
f1ccd77d 597 $utf8 = $full_names_cache{$name};
35c0985d 598 }
84374e30 599 else {
35c0985d 600
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601 ## Suck in the code/name list as a big string.
602 ## Lines look like:
73d9566f 603 ## "00052\tLATIN CAPITAL LETTER R\n"
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604 # or
605 # "0052 0303\tLATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH TILDE\n"
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606 $txt = do "unicore/Name.pl" unless $txt;
607
608 ## @off will hold the index into the code/name string of the start and
609 ## end of the name as we find it.
610
611 ## If :full, look for the name exactly; runtime implies full
8a684a5b 612 my $found_full_in_table = 0; # Tells us if can cache the result
84374e30 613 if ($^H{charnames_full}) {
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614
615 # See if the name is one which is algorithmically determinable.
616 # The subroutine is included in Name.pl. The table contained in
617 # $txt doesn't contain these. Experiments show that checking
618 # for these before checking for the regular names has no
619 # noticeable impact on performance for the regular names, but
620 # the other way around slows down finding these immensely.
621 # Algorithmically determinables are not placed in the cache (that
622 # $found_full_in_table indicates) because that uses up memory,
623 # and finding these again is fast.
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624 if (defined (my $ord = name_to_code_point_special($name))) {
625 $utf8 = pack("U", $ord);
626 }
627 else {
5bd59e57 628
98dc9551 629 # Not algorithmically determinable; look up in the table.
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630 if ($txt =~ /\t\Q$name\E$/m) {
631 @off = ($-[0] + 1, $+[0]); # The 1 is for the tab
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632 $found_full_in_table = 1;
633 }
52fb7278 634 }
423cee85 635 }
b177ca84 636
e79869e1 637 # If we didn't get it above, keep looking
f1ccd77d 638 if (! $found_full_in_table && ! defined $utf8) {
84374e30 639
dc023ef4 640 # If :short is allowed, see if input is like "greek:Sigma".
e79869e1 641 my $scripts_trie;
52fb7278 642 if (($^H{charnames_short})
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643 && $name =~ /^ \s* (.+?) \s* : \s* (.+?) \s* $ /xs)
644 {
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645 $scripts_trie = "\U\Q$1";
646 $name = $2;
dc023ef4 647 }
9deebca3 648 else { # Otherwise look in allowed scripts
e79869e1 649 $scripts_trie = $^H{charnames_scripts};
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650 }
651
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652 my $case = $name =~ /[[:upper:]]/ ? "CAPITAL" : "SMALL";
653 if ($txt !~
73d9566f 654 /\t (?: $scripts_trie ) \ (?:$case\ )? LETTER \ \U\Q$name\E $/xm)
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655 {
656 # Here we still don't have it, give up.
657 return if $runtime;
52fb7278 658
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659 # May have zapped input name, get it again.
660 $name = (defined $save_input) ? $save_input : $_[0];
661 carp "Unknown charname '$name'";
fb121860 662 return ($wants_ord) ? 0xFFFD : pack("U", 0xFFFD);
e79869e1 663 }
52fb7278 664
73d9566f 665 @off = ($-[0] + 1, $+[0]); # The 1 is for the tab
52ea3e69 666 }
35c0985d 667
f1ccd77d 668 if (! defined $utf8) {
b1c167a3 669
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670 # Here, we haven't set up the output, but we know where in the string
671 # the name starts. The string is set up so that for single characters
98dc9551 672 # (and not named sequences), the name is preceded immediately by a
fb121860 673 # tab and 5 hex digits for its code, with a \n before those. Named
98dc9551 674 # sequences won't have the 7th preceding character be a \n.
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675 # (Actually, for the very first entry in the table this isn't strictly
676 # true: subtracting 7 will yield -1, and the substr below will
677 # therefore yield the very last character in the table, which should
678 # also be a \n, so the statement works anyway.)
679 if (substr($txt, $off[0] - 7, 1) eq "\n") {
680 $utf8 = pack("U", CORE::hex substr($txt, $off[0] - 6, 5));
681 }
682 else {
683
684 # Here, is a named sequence. Need to go looking for the beginning,
685 # which is just after the \n from the previous entry in the table.
686 # The +1 skips past that newline, or, if the rindex() fails, to put
687 # us to an offset of zero.
688 my $charstart = rindex($txt, "\n", $off[0] - 7) + 1;
689 $utf8 = pack("U*", map { CORE::hex }
690 split " ", substr($txt, $charstart, $off[0] - $charstart - 1));
691 }
5bd59e57 692 }
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694 # Cache the input so as to not have to search the large table
695 # again, but only if it came from the one search that we cache.
f1ccd77d 696 $full_names_cache{$name} = $utf8 if $found_full_in_table;
35c0985d 697 }
423cee85 698 }
b177ca84 699
63098191 700
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701 # Here, have the utf8. If the return is to be an ord, must be any single
702 # character.
703 if ($wants_ord) {
704 return ord($utf8) if length $utf8 == 1;
705 }
706 else {
707
708 # Here, wants string output. If utf8 is acceptable, just return what
709 # we've got; otherwise attempt to convert it to non-utf8 and return that.
710 my $in_bytes = ($runtime)
711 ? (caller $runtime)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits
712 : $^H & $bytes::hint_bits;
713 return $utf8 if (! $in_bytes || utf8::downgrade($utf8, 1)) # The 1 arg
714 # means don't die on failure
715 }
716
717 # Here, there is an error: either there are too many characters, or the
718 # result string needs to be non-utf8, and at least one character requires
719 # utf8. Prefer any official name over the input one for the error message.
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720 if (@off) {
721 $name = substr($txt, $off[0], $off[1] - $off[0]) if @off;
722 }
723 else {
724 $name = (defined $save_input) ? $save_input : $_[0];
725 }
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727 if ($wants_ord) {
728 # Only way to get here in this case is if result too long. Message
729 # assumes that our only caller that requires single char result is
730 # vianame.
731 carp "charnames::vianame() doesn't handle named sequences ($name). Use charnames::string_vianame() instead";
732 return;
733 }
734
735 # Only other possible failure here is from use bytes.
736 if ($runtime) {
737 carp not_legal_use_bytes_msg($name, $utf8);
738 return;
739 } else {
740 croak not_legal_use_bytes_msg($name, $utf8);
741 }
742
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743} # lookup_name
744
745sub charnames {
63098191 746
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747 # For \N{...}. Looks up the character name and returns the string
748 # representation of it.
63098191 749
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750 # The first 0 arg means wants a string returned; the second that we are in
751 # compile time
752 return lookup_name($_[0], 0, 0);
63098191 753}
423cee85 754
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755sub import
756{
757 shift; ## ignore class name
758
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760 carp("`use charnames' needs explicit imports list");
b177ca84 761 }
423cee85 762 $^H{charnames} = \&charnames ;
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763 $^H{charnames_ord_aliases} = {};
764 $^H{charnames_name_aliases} = {};
765 $^H{charnames_inverse_ords} = {};
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766 # New fields must be added to %dummy_H, and the code in lookup_name()
767 # that copies fields from the runtime structure
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769 ##
770 ## fill %h keys with our @_ args.
771 ##
35c0985d 772 my ($promote, %h, @args) = (0);
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773 while (my $arg = shift) {
774 if ($arg eq ":alias") {
51cf30b6 775 @_ or
52fb7278 776 croak ":alias needs an argument in charnames";
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777 my $alias = shift;
778 if (ref $alias) {
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779 ref $alias eq "HASH" or
780 croak "Only HASH reference supported as argument to :alias";
781 alias ($alias);
782 next;
35c0985d 783 }
51cf30b6 784 if ($alias =~ m{:(\w+)$}) {
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785 $1 eq "full" || $1 eq "short" and
786 croak ":alias cannot use existing pragma :$1 (reversed order?)";
787 alias_file ($1) and $promote = 1;
788 next;
35c0985d 789 }
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790 alias_file ($alias);
791 next;
792 }
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793 if (substr($arg, 0, 1) eq ':' and ! ($arg eq ":full" || $arg eq ":short")) {
794 warn "unsupported special '$arg' in charnames";
51cf30b6 795 next;
35c0985d 796 }
e5c3f898 797 push @args, $arg;
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799 @args == 0 && $promote and @args = (":full");
800 @h{@args} = (1) x @args;
b177ca84 801
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803 # as tested for in
804 # lookup_names
805 $^H{charnames_short} = delete $h{':short'} || 0;
e79869e1 806 my @scripts = map uc, keys %h;
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808 ##
809 ## If utf8? warnings are enabled, and some scripts were given,
281aa49e 810 ## see if at least we can find one letter from each script.
b177ca84 811 ##
e79869e1 812 if (warnings::enabled('utf8') && @scripts) {
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814
e79869e1 815 for my $script (@scripts) {
73d9566f 816 if (not $txt =~ m/\t$script (?:CAPITAL |SMALL )?LETTER /) {
52fb7278 817 warnings::warn('utf8', "No such script: '$script'");
e79869e1 818 $script = quotemeta $script; # Escape it, for use in the re.
b177ca84 819 }
35c0985d 820 }
bd62941a 821 }
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822
823 # %^H gets stringified, so serialize it ourselves so can extract the
824 # real data back later.
825 $^H{charnames_stringified_ords} = join ",", %{$^H{charnames_ord_aliases}};
826 $^H{charnames_stringified_names} = join ",", %{$^H{charnames_name_aliases}};
827 $^H{charnames_stringified_inverse_ords} = join ",", %{$^H{charnames_inverse_ords}};
e79869e1 828 $^H{charnames_scripts} = join "|", @scripts; # Stringifiy them as a trie
35c0985d 829} # import
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832# official values, and user aliases can't override them, so scoping is
833# not an issue.
834my %viacode;
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835
836sub viacode {
837
838 # Returns the name of the code point argument
4e2cda5d 839
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840 if (@_ != 1) {
841 carp "charnames::viacode() expects one argument";
bd5c3bd9 842 return;
35c0985d 843 }
f0175764 844
35c0985d 845 my $arg = shift;
b177ca84 846
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847 # This is derived from Unicode::UCD, where it is nearly the same as the
848 # function _getcode(), but here it makes sure that even a hex argument
849 # has the proper number of leading zeros, which is critical in
850 # matching against $txt below
281aa49e 851 # Must check if decimal first; see comments at that definition
35c0985d 852 my $hex;
232cbbee 853 if ($arg =~ $decimal_qr) {
b1c167a3 854 $hex = sprintf "%05X", $arg;
232cbbee 855 } elsif ($arg =~ $hex_qr) {
e10d7780 856 # Below is the line that differs from the _getcode() source
b1c167a3 857 $hex = sprintf "%05X", hex $1;
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858 } else {
859 carp("unexpected arg \"$arg\" to charnames::viacode()");
860 return;
861 }
b177ca84 862
35c0985d 863 return $viacode{$hex} if exists $viacode{$hex};
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865 # If the code point is above the max in the table, there's no point
866 # looking through it. Checking the length first is slightly faster
867 if (length($hex) <= 5 || CORE::hex($hex) <= 0x10FFFF) {
868 $txt = do "unicore/Name.pl" unless $txt;
b177ca84 869
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870 # See if the name is algorithmically determinable.
871 my $algorithmic = code_point_to_name_special(CORE::hex $hex);
872 if (defined $algorithmic) {
873 $viacode{$hex} = $algorithmic;
874 return $algorithmic;
875 }
876
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877 # Return the official name, if exists. It's unclear to me (khw) at
878 # this juncture if it is better to return a user-defined override, so
879 # leaving it as is for now.
73d9566f 880 if ($txt =~ m/^$hex\t/m) {
f3227b74 881
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883 # next new-line. Using capturing parentheses above instead of
884 # @+ more than doubles the execution time in Perl 5.13
f3227b74 885 $viacode{$hex} = substr($txt, $+[0], index($txt, "\n", $+[0]) - $+[0]);
52fb7278 886 return $viacode{$hex};
ac046fe1 887 }
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888 }
889
890 # See if there is a user name for it, before giving up completely.
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891 # First get the scoped aliases, give up if have none.
892 my $H_ref = (caller(0))[10];
893 return if ! defined $H_ref
894 || ! exists $H_ref->{charnames_stringified_inverse_ords};
895
84374e30 896 my %code_point_aliases = split ',',
03f95285 897 $H_ref->{charnames_stringified_inverse_ords};
84374e30 898 if (! exists $code_point_aliases{$hex}) {
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899 if (CORE::hex($hex) > 0x10FFFF) {
900 carp "Unicode characters only allocated up to U+10FFFF (you asked for U+$hex)";
901 }
902 return;
903 }
bd5c3bd9 904
84374e30 905 return $code_point_aliases{$hex};
35c0985d 906} # viacode
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907
908sub vianame
909{
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910 if (@_ != 1) {
911 carp "charnames::vianame() expects one name argument";
912 return ()
913 }
daf0d493 914
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915 # Looks up the character name and returns its ordinal if
916 # found, undef otherwise.
daf0d493 917
63098191 918 my $arg = shift;
dbc0d4f2 919
63098191 920 if ($arg =~ /^U\+([0-9a-fA-F]+)$/) {
4e2cda5d 921
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922 # khw claims that this is poor interface design. The function should
923 # return either a an ord or a chr for all inputs; not be bipolar. But
924 # can't change it because of backward compatibility. New code can use
925 # string_vianame() instead.
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926 my $ord = CORE::hex $1;
927 return chr $ord if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
fb121860 928 carp not_legal_use_bytes_msg($arg, chr $ord);
5a7fb30a 929 return;
63098191 930 }
daf0d493 931
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932 # The first 1 arg means wants an ord returned; the second that we are in
933 # runtime, and this is the first level routine called from the user
934 return lookup_name($arg, 1, 1);
35c0985d 935} # vianame
b177ca84 936
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937sub string_vianame {
938
939 # Looks up the character name and returns its string representation if
940 # found, undef otherwise.
941
942 if (@_ != 1) {
943 carp "charnames::string_vianame() expects one name argument";
944 return;
945 }
946
947 my $arg = shift;
948
949 if ($arg =~ /^U\+([0-9a-fA-F]+)$/) {
950
951 my $ord = CORE::hex $1;
952 return chr $ord if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
953
954 carp not_legal_use_bytes_msg($arg, chr $ord);
955 return;
956 }
957
958 # The 0 arg means wants a string returned; the 1 arg means that we are in
959 # runtime, and this is the first level routine called from the user
960 return lookup_name($arg, 0, 1);
961} # string_vianame
962
963
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9651;
966__END__
967
968=head1 NAME
969
fb121860 970charnames - access to Unicode character names and named character sequences; also define character names
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971
972=head1 SYNOPSIS
973
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974 use charnames ':full';
975 print "\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA} is called sigma.\n";
976 print "\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH VERTICAL LINE BELOW}",
977 " is an officially named sequence of two Unicode characters\n";
978
979 use charnames ':short';
980 print "\N{greek:Sigma} is an upper-case sigma.\n";
981
982 use charnames qw(cyrillic greek);
983 print "\N{sigma} is Greek sigma, and \N{be} is Cyrillic b.\n";
984
985 use charnames ":full", ":alias" => {
986 e_ACUTE => "LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE",
987 mychar => 0xE8000, # Private use area
988 };
989 print "\N{e_ACUTE} is a small letter e with an acute.\n";
990 print "\\N{mychar} allows me to name private use characters.\n";
991
992 use charnames ();
993 print charnames::viacode(0x1234); # prints "ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SEE"
994 printf "%04X", charnames::vianame("GOTHIC LETTER AHSA"); # prints
995 # "10330"
996 print charnames::vianame("LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A"); # prints 65 on
997 # ASCII platforms;
998 # 193 on EBCDIC
999 print charnames::string_vianame("LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A"); # prints "A"
b177ca84 1000
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1001=head1 DESCRIPTION
1002
da9dec57 1003Pragma C<use charnames> is used to gain access to the names of the
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1004Unicode characters and named character sequences, and to allow you to define
1005your own character and character sequence names.
1006
1007All forms of the pragma enable use of the following 3 functions:
1008
1009=over
1010
1011=item *
1012
1013L</charnames::string_vianame(I<name>)> for run-time lookup of a
1014either a character name or a named character sequence, returning its string
1015representation
1016
1017=item *
1018
1019L</charnames::vianame(I<name>)> for run-time lookup of a
1020character name (but not a named character sequence) to get its ordinal value
1021(code point)
da9dec57 1022
fb121860 1023=item *
da9dec57 1024
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1025L</charnames::viacode(I<code>)> for run-time lookup of a code point to get its
1026Unicode name.
1027
1028=back
1029
1030All forms other than C<S<"use charnames ();">> also enable the use of
da9dec57 1031C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}> sequences to compile a Unicode character into a
8ebef31d 1032string, based on its name.
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1033
1034Note that C<\N{U+I<...>}>, where the I<...> is a hexadecimal number,
1035also inserts a character into a string, but doesn't require the use of
1036this pragma. The character it inserts is the one whose code point
1037(ordinal value) is equal to the number. For example, C<"\N{U+263a}"> is
1038the Unicode (white background, black foreground) smiley face; it doesn't
1039require this pragma, whereas the equivalent, C<"\N{WHITE SMILING FACE}">
1040does.
1041Also, C<\N{I<...>}> can mean a regex quantifier instead of a character
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1042name, when the I<...> is a number (or comma separated pair of numbers
1043(see L<perlreref/QUANTIFIERS>), and is not related to this pragma.
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1044
1045The C<charnames> pragma supports arguments C<:full>, C<:short>, script
1046names and customized aliases. If C<:full> is present, for expansion of
1047C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}>, the string I<CHARNAME> is first looked up in the list of
76ae0c45 1048standard Unicode character names. If C<:short> is present, and
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1049I<CHARNAME> has the form C<I<SCRIPT>:I<CNAME>>, then I<CNAME> is looked up
1050as a letter in script I<SCRIPT>. If C<use charnames> is used
1051with script name arguments, then for C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}> the name
1052I<CHARNAME> is looked up as a letter in the given scripts (in the
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1053specified order). Customized aliases can override these, and are explained in
1054L</CUSTOM ALIASES>.
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da9dec57 1056For lookup of I<CHARNAME> inside a given script I<SCRIPTNAME>
d5448623 1057this pragma looks for the names
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1058
1059 SCRIPTNAME CAPITAL LETTER CHARNAME
1060 SCRIPTNAME SMALL LETTER CHARNAME
1061 SCRIPTNAME LETTER CHARNAME
1062
da9dec57 1063in the table of standard Unicode names. If I<CHARNAME> is lowercase,
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1064then the C<CAPITAL> variant is ignored, otherwise the C<SMALL> variant
1065is ignored.
1066
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1067Note that C<\N{...}> is compile-time; it's a special form of string
1068constant used inside double-quotish strings; this means that you cannot
4e2cda5d 1069use variables inside the C<\N{...}>. If you want similar run-time
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1070functionality, use
1071L<charnames::string_vianame()|/charnames::string_vianame(I<name>)>.
423cee85 1072
301a3cda 1073For the C0 and C1 control characters (U+0000..U+001F, U+0080..U+009F)
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1074there are no official Unicode names but you can use instead the ISO 6429
1075names (LINE FEED, ESCAPE, and so forth, and their abbreviations, LF,
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1076ESC, ...). In Unicode 3.2 (as of Perl 5.8) some naming changes took
1077place, and ISO 6429 was updated, see L</ALIASES>.
301a3cda 1078
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1079If the input name is unknown, C<\N{NAME}> raises a warning and
1080substitutes the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD).
1081
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1082For C<\N{NAME}>, it is a fatal error if C<use bytes> is in effect and the
1083input name is that of a character that won't fit into a byte (i.e., whose
1084ordinal is above 255).
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1086Otherwise, any string that includes a C<\N{I<charname>}> or
1087C<S<\N{U+I<code point>}>> will automatically have Unicode semantics (see
1088L<perlunicode/Byte and Character Semantics>).
1089
5ffe0e96 1090=head1 ALIASES
423cee85 1091
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1092A few aliases have been defined for convenience: instead of having
1093to use the official names
423cee85 1094
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1095 LINE FEED (LF)
1096 FORM FEED (FF)
1097 CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
1098 NEXT LINE (NEL)
423cee85 1099
e5432b89 1100(yes, with parentheses), one can use
d5448623 1101
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1102 LINE FEED
1103 FORM FEED
1104 CARRIAGE RETURN
1105 NEXT LINE
1106 LF
1107 FF
1108 CR
1109 NEL
1110
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1111All the other standard abbreviations for the controls, such as C<ACK> for
1112C<ACKNOWLEDGE> also can be used.
1113
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1114One can also use
1115
1116 BYTE ORDER MARK
1117 BOM
1118
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1119and these abbreviations
1120
1121 Abbreviation Full Name
1122
1123 CGJ COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER
1124 FVS1 MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR ONE
1125 FVS2 MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR TWO
1126 FVS3 MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR THREE
1127 LRE LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING
1128 LRM LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
1129 LRO LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE
1130 MMSP MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
1131 MVS MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR
1132 NBSP NO-BREAK SPACE
1133 NNBSP NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
1134 PDF POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
1135 RLE RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING
1136 RLM RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
1137 RLO RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
1138 SHY SOFT HYPHEN
1139 VS1 VARIATION SELECTOR-1
1140 .
1141 .
1142 .
1143 VS256 VARIATION SELECTOR-256
1144 WJ WORD JOINER
1145 ZWJ ZERO WIDTH JOINER
1146 ZWNJ ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
1147 ZWSP ZERO WIDTH SPACE
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1148
1149For backward compatibility one can use the old names for
1150certain C0 and C1 controls
1151
1152 old new
1153
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1154 FILE SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR
1155 GROUP SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR THREE
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1156 HORIZONTAL TABULATION CHARACTER TABULATION
1157 HORIZONTAL TABULATION SET CHARACTER TABULATION SET
1158 HORIZONTAL TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION CHARACTER TABULATION
1159 WITH JUSTIFICATION
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1160 PARTIAL LINE DOWN PARTIAL LINE FORWARD
1161 PARTIAL LINE UP PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD
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1162 RECORD SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR TWO
1163 REVERSE INDEX REVERSE LINE FEED
1164 UNIT SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE
1165 VERTICAL TABULATION LINE TABULATION
1166 VERTICAL TABULATION SET LINE TABULATION SET
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1167
1168but the old names in addition to giving the character
1169will also give a warning about being deprecated.
423cee85 1170
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1171And finally, certain published variants are usable, including some for
1172controls that have no Unicode names:
1173
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1174 name character
1175
52fb7278 1176 END OF PROTECTED AREA END OF GUARDED AREA, U+0097
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1177 HIGH OCTET PRESET U+0081
1178 HOP U+0081
1179 IND U+0084
1180 INDEX U+0084
1181 PAD U+0080
1182 PADDING CHARACTER U+0080
1183 PRIVATE USE 1 PRIVATE USE ONE, U+0091
1184 PRIVATE USE 2 PRIVATE USE TWO, U+0092
1185 SGC U+0099
1186 SINGLE GRAPHIC CHARACTER INTRODUCER U+0099
1187 SINGLE-SHIFT 2 SINGLE SHIFT TWO, U+008E
1188 SINGLE-SHIFT 3 SINGLE SHIFT THREE, U+008F
1189 START OF PROTECTED AREA START OF GUARDED AREA, U+0096
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1191=head1 CUSTOM ALIASES
1192
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1193You can add customized aliases to standard (C<:full>) Unicode naming
1194conventions. The aliases override any standard definitions, so, if
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1195you're twisted enough, you can change C<"\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A}"> to
1196mean C<"B">, etc.
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1197
1198Note that an alias should not be something that is a legal curly
1199brace-enclosed quantifier (see L<perlreref/QUANTIFIERS>). For example
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1200C<\N{123}> means to match 123 non-newline characters, and is not treated as a
1201charnames alias. Aliases are discouraged from beginning with anything
1202other than an alphabetic character and from containing anything other
1203than alphanumerics, spaces, dashes, parentheses, and underscores.
1204Currently they must be ASCII.
1205
1206An alias can map to either an official Unicode character name or to a
1207numeric code point (ordinal). The latter is useful for assigning names
1208to code points in Unicode private use areas such as U+E800 through
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1209U+F8FF.
1210A numeric code point must be a non-negative integer or a string beginning
1211with C<"U+"> or C<"0x"> with the remainder considered to be a
1212hexadecimal integer. A literal numeric constant must be unsigned; it
1213will be interpreted as hex if it has a leading zero or contains
1214non-decimal hex digits; otherwise it will be interpreted as decimal.
232cbbee 1215
da9dec57 1216Aliases are added either by the use of anonymous hashes:
35c0985d 1217
da9dec57 1218 use charnames ":alias" => {
35c0985d 1219 e_ACUTE => "LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE",
232cbbee 1220 mychar1 => 0xE8000,
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1221 };
1222 my $str = "\N{e_ACUTE}";
1223
da9dec57 1224or by using a file containing aliases:
35c0985d 1225
da9dec57 1226 use charnames ":alias" => "pro";
35c0985d 1227
8ebef31d 1228This will try to read C<"unicore/pro_alias.pl"> from the C<@INC> path. This
da9dec57 1229file should return a list in plain perl:
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1230
1231 (
1232 A_GRAVE => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE",
1233 A_CIRCUM => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX",
1234 A_DIAERES => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS",
1235 A_TILDE => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE",
1236 A_BREVE => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE",
1237 A_RING => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE",
1238 A_MACRON => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON",
f12d74c0 1239 mychar2 => "U+E8001",
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1240 );
1241
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1242Both these methods insert C<":full"> automatically as the first argument (if no
1243other argument is given), and you can give the C<":full"> explicitly as
1244well, like
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da9dec57 1246 use charnames ":full", ":alias" => "pro";
35c0985d 1247
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1248Also, both these methods currently allow only a single character to be named.
1249To name a sequence of characters, use a
1250L<custom translator|/CUSTOM TRANSLATORS> (described below).
1251
da9dec57 1252=head1 charnames::viacode(I<code>)
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1253
1254Returns the full name of the character indicated by the numeric code.
da9dec57 1255For example,
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1256
1257 print charnames::viacode(0x2722);
1258
1259prints "FOUR TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK".
1260
232cbbee 1261The name returned is the official name for the code point, if
8ebef31d 1262available; otherwise your custom alias for it. This means that your
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1263alias will only be returned for code points that don't have an official
1264Unicode name (nor Unicode version 1 name), such as private use code
1265points, and the 4 control characters U+0080, U+0081, U+0084, and U+0099.
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1266If you define more than one name for the code point, it is indeterminate
1267which one will be returned.
1268
1269The function returns C<undef> if no name is known for the code point.
1270In Unicode the proper name of these is the empty string, which
1271C<undef> stringifies to. (If you ask for a code point past the legal
1272Unicode maximum of U+10FFFF that you haven't assigned an alias to, you
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1273get C<undef> plus a warning.)
1274
1275The input number must be a non-negative integer or a string beginning
1276with C<"U+"> or C<"0x"> with the remainder considered to be a
1277hexadecimal integer. A literal numeric constant must be unsigned; it
1278will be interpreted as hex if it has a leading zero or contains
1279non-decimal hex digits; otherwise it will be interpreted as decimal.
daf0d493 1280
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1281Notice that the name returned for of U+FEFF is "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK
1282SPACE", not "BYTE ORDER MARK".
1283
fb121860 1284=head1 charnames::string_vianame(I<name>)
daf0d493 1285
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1286This is a runtime equivalent to C<\N{...}>. I<name> can be any expression
1287that evaluates to a name accepted by C<\N{...}> under the L<C<:full>
1288option|/DESCRIPTION> to C<charnames>. In addition, any other options for the
1289controlling C<"use charnames"> in the same scope apply, like any L<script
1290list, C<:short> option|/DESCRIPTION>, or L<custom aliases|/CUSTOM ALIASES> you
1291may have defined.
daf0d493 1292
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1293The only difference is that if the input name is unknown, C<string_vianame>
1294returns C<undef> instead of the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER and does not raise a
1295warning message.
daf0d493 1296
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1297=head1 charnames::vianame(I<name>)
1298
1299This is similar to C<string_vianame>. The main difference is that under most
1300circumstances (see L</BUGS> for the others), vianame returns an ordinal code
1301point, whereas C<string_vianame> returns a string. For example,
daf0d493 1302
fb121860 1303 printf "U+%04X", charnames::vianame("FOUR TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK");
b177ca84 1304
fb121860 1305prints "U+2722".
1f31fcd4 1306
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1307This leads to the other two differences. Since a single code point is
1308returned, the function can't handle named character sequences, as these are
1309composed of multiple characters. And, the code point can be that of any
1310character, even ones that aren't legal under the C<S<use bytes>> pragma,
b177ca84 1311
5ffe0e96 1312=head1 CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
52ea3e69 1313
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1314The mechanism of translation of C<\N{...}> escapes is general and not
1315hardwired into F<charnames.pm>. A module can install custom
1316translations (inside the scope which C<use>s the module) with the
1317following magic incantation:
52ea3e69 1318
5ffe0e96 1319 sub import {
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1320 shift;
1321 $^H{charnames} = \&translator;
5ffe0e96 1322 }
52ea3e69 1323
da9dec57 1324Here translator() is a subroutine which takes I<CHARNAME> as an
5ffe0e96 1325argument, and returns text to insert into the string instead of the
da9dec57 1326C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}> escape. Since the text to insert should be different
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1327in C<bytes> mode and out of it, the function should check the current
1328state of C<bytes>-flag as in:
52ea3e69 1329
52fb7278 1330 use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits
5ffe0e96 1331 sub translator {
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1332 if ($^H & $bytes::hint_bits) {
1333 return bytes_translator(@_);
1334 }
1335 else {
1336 return utf8_translator(@_);
1337 }
5ffe0e96 1338 }
52ea3e69 1339
da9dec57 1340See L</CUSTOM ALIASES> above for restrictions on I<CHARNAME>.
f0175764 1341
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1342Of course, C<vianame> and C<viacode> would need to be overridden as
1343well.
1344
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1345=head1 BUGS
1346
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1347vianame normally returns an ordinal code point, but when the input name is of
1348the form C<U+...>, it returns a chr instead. In this case, if C<use bytes> is
1349in effect and the character won't fit into a byte, it returns C<undef> and
1350raises a warning.
55bc7d3c 1351
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1352Names must be ASCII characters only, which means that you are out of luck if
1353you want to create aliases in a language where some or all the characters of
1354the desired aliases are non-ASCII.
bee80e93 1355
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1356Since evaluation of the translation function (see L</CUSTOM
1357TRANSLATORS>) happens in the middle of compilation (of a string
1358literal), the translation function should not do any C<eval>s or
1359C<require>s. This restriction should be lifted (but is low priority) in
1360a future version of Perl.
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1361
1362=cut
0eacc33e 1363
52fb7278 1364# ex: set ts=8 sts=2 sw=2 et: