7 use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits
10 # Icky 3.2 names with parentheses.
11 'LINE FEED' => 0x0A, # LINE FEED (LF)
12 'FORM FEED' => 0x0C, # FORM FEED (FF)
13 'CARRIAGE RETURN' => 0x0D, # CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
14 'NEXT LINE' => 0x85, # NEXT LINE (NEL)
16 # Some variant names from Wikipedia
17 'SINGLE-SHIFT 2' => 0x8E,
18 'SINGLE-SHIFT 3' => 0x8F,
19 'PRIVATE USE 1' => 0x91,
20 'PRIVATE USE 2' => 0x92,
21 'START OF PROTECTED AREA' => 0x96,
22 'END OF PROTECTED AREA' => 0x97,
24 # Convenience. Standard abbreviations for the controls
26 'SOH' => 0x01, # START OF HEADING
27 'STX' => 0x02, # START OF TEXT
28 'ETX' => 0x03, # END OF TEXT
29 'EOT' => 0x04, # END OF TRANSMISSION
30 'ENQ' => 0x05, # ENQUIRY
31 'ACK' => 0x06, # ACKNOWLEDGE
33 'BS' => 0x08, # BACKSPACE
34 'HT' => 0x09, # HORIZONTAL TABULATION
35 'LF' => 0x0A, # LINE FEED (LF)
36 'VT' => 0x0B, # VERTICAL TABULATION
37 'FF' => 0x0C, # FORM FEED (FF)
38 'CR' => 0x0D, # CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
39 'SO' => 0x0E, # SHIFT OUT
40 'SI' => 0x0F, # SHIFT IN
41 'DLE' => 0x10, # DATA LINK ESCAPE
42 'DC1' => 0x11, # DEVICE CONTROL ONE
43 'DC2' => 0x12, # DEVICE CONTROL TWO
44 'DC3' => 0x13, # DEVICE CONTROL THREE
45 'DC4' => 0x14, # DEVICE CONTROL FOUR
46 'NAK' => 0x15, # NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGE
47 'SYN' => 0x16, # SYNCHRONOUS IDLE
48 'ETB' => 0x17, # END OF TRANSMISSION BLOCK
49 'CAN' => 0x18, # CANCEL
50 'EOM' => 0x19, # END OF MEDIUM
51 'SUB' => 0x1A, # SUBSTITUTE
52 'ESC' => 0x1B, # ESCAPE
53 'FS' => 0x1C, # FILE SEPARATOR
54 'GS' => 0x1D, # GROUP SEPARATOR
55 'RS' => 0x1E, # RECORD SEPARATOR
56 'US' => 0x1F, # UNIT SEPARATOR
57 'DEL' => 0x7F, # DELETE
58 'BPH' => 0x82, # BREAK PERMITTED HERE
59 'NBH' => 0x83, # NO BREAK HERE
60 'NEL' => 0x85, # NEXT LINE (NEL)
61 'SSA' => 0x86, # START OF SELECTED AREA
62 'ESA' => 0x87, # END OF SELECTED AREA
63 'HTS' => 0x88, # CHARACTER TABULATION SET
64 'HTJ' => 0x89, # CHARACTER TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION
65 'VTS' => 0x8A, # LINE TABULATION SET
66 'PLD' => 0x8B, # PARTIAL LINE FORWARD
67 'PLU' => 0x8C, # PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD
68 'RI ' => 0x8D, # REVERSE LINE FEED
69 'SS2' => 0x8E, # SINGLE SHIFT TWO
70 'SS3' => 0x8F, # SINGLE SHIFT THREE
71 'DCS' => 0x90, # DEVICE CONTROL STRING
72 'PU1' => 0x91, # PRIVATE USE ONE
73 'PU2' => 0x92, # PRIVATE USE TWO
74 'STS' => 0x93, # SET TRANSMIT STATE
75 'CCH' => 0x94, # CANCEL CHARACTER
76 'MW ' => 0x95, # MESSAGE WAITING
77 'SPA' => 0x96, # START OF GUARDED AREA
78 'EPA' => 0x97, # END OF GUARDED AREA
79 'SOS' => 0x98, # START OF STRING
80 'SCI' => 0x9A, # SINGLE CHARACTER INTRODUCER
81 'CSI' => 0x9B, # CONTROL SEQUENCE INTRODUCER
82 'ST ' => 0x9C, # STRING TERMINATOR
83 'OSC' => 0x9D, # OPERATING SYSTEM COMMAND
84 'PM ' => 0x9E, # PRIVACY MESSAGE
85 'APC' => 0x9F, # APPLICATION PROGRAM COMMAND
87 # There are no names for these in the Unicode standard;
88 # perhaps should be deprecated, but then again there are
89 # no alternative names, so am not deprecating. And if
90 # did, the code would have to change to not recommend an
91 # alternative for these.
92 'PADDING CHARACTER' => 0x80,
94 'HIGH OCTET PRESET' => 0x81,
98 'SINGLE GRAPHIC CHARACTER INTRODUCER' => 0x99,
101 # More convenience. For further convenience,
102 # it is suggested some way of using the NamesList
103 # aliases be implemented, but there are ambiguities in
105 'BOM' => 0xFEFF, # BYTE ORDER MARK
106 'BYTE ORDER MARK'=> 0xFEFF,
107 'CGJ' => 0x034F, # COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER
108 'FVS1' => 0x180B, # MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR ONE
109 'FVS2' => 0x180C, # MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR TWO
110 'FVS3' => 0x180D, # MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR THREE
111 'LRE' => 0x202A, # LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING
112 'LRM' => 0x200E, # LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
113 'LRO' => 0x202D, # LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE
114 'MMSP' => 0x205F, # MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
115 'MVS' => 0x180E, # MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR
116 'NBSP' => 0x00A0, # NO-BREAK SPACE
117 'NNBSP' => 0x202F, # NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
118 'PDF' => 0x202C, # POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
119 'RLE' => 0x202B, # RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING
120 'RLM' => 0x200F, # RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
121 'RLO' => 0x202E, # RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
122 'SHY' => 0x00AD, # SOFT HYPHEN
123 'VS1' => 0xFE00, # VARIATION SELECTOR-1
124 'VS2' => 0xFE01, # VARIATION SELECTOR-2
125 'VS3' => 0xFE02, # VARIATION SELECTOR-3
126 'VS4' => 0xFE03, # VARIATION SELECTOR-4
127 'VS5' => 0xFE04, # VARIATION SELECTOR-5
128 'VS6' => 0xFE05, # VARIATION SELECTOR-6
129 'VS7' => 0xFE06, # VARIATION SELECTOR-7
130 'VS8' => 0xFE07, # VARIATION SELECTOR-8
131 'VS9' => 0xFE08, # VARIATION SELECTOR-9
132 'VS10' => 0xFE09, # VARIATION SELECTOR-10
133 'VS11' => 0xFE0A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-11
134 'VS12' => 0xFE0B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-12
135 'VS13' => 0xFE0C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-13
136 'VS14' => 0xFE0D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-14
137 'VS15' => 0xFE0E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-15
138 'VS16' => 0xFE0F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-16
139 'VS17' => 0xE0100, # VARIATION SELECTOR-17
140 'VS18' => 0xE0101, # VARIATION SELECTOR-18
141 'VS19' => 0xE0102, # VARIATION SELECTOR-19
142 'VS20' => 0xE0103, # VARIATION SELECTOR-20
143 'VS21' => 0xE0104, # VARIATION SELECTOR-21
144 'VS22' => 0xE0105, # VARIATION SELECTOR-22
145 'VS23' => 0xE0106, # VARIATION SELECTOR-23
146 'VS24' => 0xE0107, # VARIATION SELECTOR-24
147 'VS25' => 0xE0108, # VARIATION SELECTOR-25
148 'VS26' => 0xE0109, # VARIATION SELECTOR-26
149 'VS27' => 0xE010A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-27
150 'VS28' => 0xE010B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-28
151 'VS29' => 0xE010C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-29
152 'VS30' => 0xE010D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-30
153 'VS31' => 0xE010E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-31
154 'VS32' => 0xE010F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-32
155 'VS33' => 0xE0110, # VARIATION SELECTOR-33
156 'VS34' => 0xE0111, # VARIATION SELECTOR-34
157 'VS35' => 0xE0112, # VARIATION SELECTOR-35
158 'VS36' => 0xE0113, # VARIATION SELECTOR-36
159 'VS37' => 0xE0114, # VARIATION SELECTOR-37
160 'VS38' => 0xE0115, # VARIATION SELECTOR-38
161 'VS39' => 0xE0116, # VARIATION SELECTOR-39
162 'VS40' => 0xE0117, # VARIATION SELECTOR-40
163 'VS41' => 0xE0118, # VARIATION SELECTOR-41
164 'VS42' => 0xE0119, # VARIATION SELECTOR-42
165 'VS43' => 0xE011A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-43
166 'VS44' => 0xE011B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-44
167 'VS45' => 0xE011C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-45
168 'VS46' => 0xE011D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-46
169 'VS47' => 0xE011E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-47
170 'VS48' => 0xE011F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-48
171 'VS49' => 0xE0120, # VARIATION SELECTOR-49
172 'VS50' => 0xE0121, # VARIATION SELECTOR-50
173 'VS51' => 0xE0122, # VARIATION SELECTOR-51
174 'VS52' => 0xE0123, # VARIATION SELECTOR-52
175 'VS53' => 0xE0124, # VARIATION SELECTOR-53
176 'VS54' => 0xE0125, # VARIATION SELECTOR-54
177 'VS55' => 0xE0126, # VARIATION SELECTOR-55
178 'VS56' => 0xE0127, # VARIATION SELECTOR-56
179 'VS57' => 0xE0128, # VARIATION SELECTOR-57
180 'VS58' => 0xE0129, # VARIATION SELECTOR-58
181 'VS59' => 0xE012A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-59
182 'VS60' => 0xE012B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-60
183 'VS61' => 0xE012C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-61
184 'VS62' => 0xE012D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-62
185 'VS63' => 0xE012E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-63
186 'VS64' => 0xE012F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-64
187 'VS65' => 0xE0130, # VARIATION SELECTOR-65
188 'VS66' => 0xE0131, # VARIATION SELECTOR-66
189 'VS67' => 0xE0132, # VARIATION SELECTOR-67
190 'VS68' => 0xE0133, # VARIATION SELECTOR-68
191 'VS69' => 0xE0134, # VARIATION SELECTOR-69
192 'VS70' => 0xE0135, # VARIATION SELECTOR-70
193 'VS71' => 0xE0136, # VARIATION SELECTOR-71
194 'VS72' => 0xE0137, # VARIATION SELECTOR-72
195 'VS73' => 0xE0138, # VARIATION SELECTOR-73
196 'VS74' => 0xE0139, # VARIATION SELECTOR-74
197 'VS75' => 0xE013A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-75
198 'VS76' => 0xE013B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-76
199 'VS77' => 0xE013C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-77
200 'VS78' => 0xE013D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-78
201 'VS79' => 0xE013E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-79
202 'VS80' => 0xE013F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-80
203 'VS81' => 0xE0140, # VARIATION SELECTOR-81
204 'VS82' => 0xE0141, # VARIATION SELECTOR-82
205 'VS83' => 0xE0142, # VARIATION SELECTOR-83
206 'VS84' => 0xE0143, # VARIATION SELECTOR-84
207 'VS85' => 0xE0144, # VARIATION SELECTOR-85
208 'VS86' => 0xE0145, # VARIATION SELECTOR-86
209 'VS87' => 0xE0146, # VARIATION SELECTOR-87
210 'VS88' => 0xE0147, # VARIATION SELECTOR-88
211 'VS89' => 0xE0148, # VARIATION SELECTOR-89
212 'VS90' => 0xE0149, # VARIATION SELECTOR-90
213 'VS91' => 0xE014A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-91
214 'VS92' => 0xE014B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-92
215 'VS93' => 0xE014C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-93
216 'VS94' => 0xE014D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-94
217 'VS95' => 0xE014E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-95
218 'VS96' => 0xE014F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-96
219 'VS97' => 0xE0150, # VARIATION SELECTOR-97
220 'VS98' => 0xE0151, # VARIATION SELECTOR-98
221 'VS99' => 0xE0152, # VARIATION SELECTOR-99
222 'VS100' => 0xE0153, # VARIATION SELECTOR-100
223 'VS101' => 0xE0154, # VARIATION SELECTOR-101
224 'VS102' => 0xE0155, # VARIATION SELECTOR-102
225 'VS103' => 0xE0156, # VARIATION SELECTOR-103
226 'VS104' => 0xE0157, # VARIATION SELECTOR-104
227 'VS105' => 0xE0158, # VARIATION SELECTOR-105
228 'VS106' => 0xE0159, # VARIATION SELECTOR-106
229 'VS107' => 0xE015A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-107
230 'VS108' => 0xE015B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-108
231 'VS109' => 0xE015C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-109
232 'VS110' => 0xE015D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-110
233 'VS111' => 0xE015E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-111
234 'VS112' => 0xE015F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-112
235 'VS113' => 0xE0160, # VARIATION SELECTOR-113
236 'VS114' => 0xE0161, # VARIATION SELECTOR-114
237 'VS115' => 0xE0162, # VARIATION SELECTOR-115
238 'VS116' => 0xE0163, # VARIATION SELECTOR-116
239 'VS117' => 0xE0164, # VARIATION SELECTOR-117
240 'VS118' => 0xE0165, # VARIATION SELECTOR-118
241 'VS119' => 0xE0166, # VARIATION SELECTOR-119
242 'VS120' => 0xE0167, # VARIATION SELECTOR-120
243 'VS121' => 0xE0168, # VARIATION SELECTOR-121
244 'VS122' => 0xE0169, # VARIATION SELECTOR-122
245 'VS123' => 0xE016A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-123
246 'VS124' => 0xE016B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-124
247 'VS125' => 0xE016C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-125
248 'VS126' => 0xE016D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-126
249 'VS127' => 0xE016E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-127
250 'VS128' => 0xE016F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-128
251 'VS129' => 0xE0170, # VARIATION SELECTOR-129
252 'VS130' => 0xE0171, # VARIATION SELECTOR-130
253 'VS131' => 0xE0172, # VARIATION SELECTOR-131
254 'VS132' => 0xE0173, # VARIATION SELECTOR-132
255 'VS133' => 0xE0174, # VARIATION SELECTOR-133
256 'VS134' => 0xE0175, # VARIATION SELECTOR-134
257 'VS135' => 0xE0176, # VARIATION SELECTOR-135
258 'VS136' => 0xE0177, # VARIATION SELECTOR-136
259 'VS137' => 0xE0178, # VARIATION SELECTOR-137
260 'VS138' => 0xE0179, # VARIATION SELECTOR-138
261 'VS139' => 0xE017A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-139
262 'VS140' => 0xE017B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-140
263 'VS141' => 0xE017C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-141
264 'VS142' => 0xE017D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-142
265 'VS143' => 0xE017E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-143
266 'VS144' => 0xE017F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-144
267 'VS145' => 0xE0180, # VARIATION SELECTOR-145
268 'VS146' => 0xE0181, # VARIATION SELECTOR-146
269 'VS147' => 0xE0182, # VARIATION SELECTOR-147
270 'VS148' => 0xE0183, # VARIATION SELECTOR-148
271 'VS149' => 0xE0184, # VARIATION SELECTOR-149
272 'VS150' => 0xE0185, # VARIATION SELECTOR-150
273 'VS151' => 0xE0186, # VARIATION SELECTOR-151
274 'VS152' => 0xE0187, # VARIATION SELECTOR-152
275 'VS153' => 0xE0188, # VARIATION SELECTOR-153
276 'VS154' => 0xE0189, # VARIATION SELECTOR-154
277 'VS155' => 0xE018A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-155
278 'VS156' => 0xE018B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-156
279 'VS157' => 0xE018C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-157
280 'VS158' => 0xE018D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-158
281 'VS159' => 0xE018E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-159
282 'VS160' => 0xE018F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-160
283 'VS161' => 0xE0190, # VARIATION SELECTOR-161
284 'VS162' => 0xE0191, # VARIATION SELECTOR-162
285 'VS163' => 0xE0192, # VARIATION SELECTOR-163
286 'VS164' => 0xE0193, # VARIATION SELECTOR-164
287 'VS165' => 0xE0194, # VARIATION SELECTOR-165
288 'VS166' => 0xE0195, # VARIATION SELECTOR-166
289 'VS167' => 0xE0196, # VARIATION SELECTOR-167
290 'VS168' => 0xE0197, # VARIATION SELECTOR-168
291 'VS169' => 0xE0198, # VARIATION SELECTOR-169
292 'VS170' => 0xE0199, # VARIATION SELECTOR-170
293 'VS171' => 0xE019A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-171
294 'VS172' => 0xE019B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-172
295 'VS173' => 0xE019C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-173
296 'VS174' => 0xE019D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-174
297 'VS175' => 0xE019E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-175
298 'VS176' => 0xE019F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-176
299 'VS177' => 0xE01A0, # VARIATION SELECTOR-177
300 'VS178' => 0xE01A1, # VARIATION SELECTOR-178
301 'VS179' => 0xE01A2, # VARIATION SELECTOR-179
302 'VS180' => 0xE01A3, # VARIATION SELECTOR-180
303 'VS181' => 0xE01A4, # VARIATION SELECTOR-181
304 'VS182' => 0xE01A5, # VARIATION SELECTOR-182
305 'VS183' => 0xE01A6, # VARIATION SELECTOR-183
306 'VS184' => 0xE01A7, # VARIATION SELECTOR-184
307 'VS185' => 0xE01A8, # VARIATION SELECTOR-185
308 'VS186' => 0xE01A9, # VARIATION SELECTOR-186
309 'VS187' => 0xE01AA, # VARIATION SELECTOR-187
310 'VS188' => 0xE01AB, # VARIATION SELECTOR-188
311 'VS189' => 0xE01AC, # VARIATION SELECTOR-189
312 'VS190' => 0xE01AD, # VARIATION SELECTOR-190
313 'VS191' => 0xE01AE, # VARIATION SELECTOR-191
314 'VS192' => 0xE01AF, # VARIATION SELECTOR-192
315 'VS193' => 0xE01B0, # VARIATION SELECTOR-193
316 'VS194' => 0xE01B1, # VARIATION SELECTOR-194
317 'VS195' => 0xE01B2, # VARIATION SELECTOR-195
318 'VS196' => 0xE01B3, # VARIATION SELECTOR-196
319 'VS197' => 0xE01B4, # VARIATION SELECTOR-197
320 'VS198' => 0xE01B5, # VARIATION SELECTOR-198
321 'VS199' => 0xE01B6, # VARIATION SELECTOR-199
322 'VS200' => 0xE01B7, # VARIATION SELECTOR-200
323 'VS201' => 0xE01B8, # VARIATION SELECTOR-201
324 'VS202' => 0xE01B9, # VARIATION SELECTOR-202
325 'VS203' => 0xE01BA, # VARIATION SELECTOR-203
326 'VS204' => 0xE01BB, # VARIATION SELECTOR-204
327 'VS205' => 0xE01BC, # VARIATION SELECTOR-205
328 'VS206' => 0xE01BD, # VARIATION SELECTOR-206
329 'VS207' => 0xE01BE, # VARIATION SELECTOR-207
330 'VS208' => 0xE01BF, # VARIATION SELECTOR-208
331 'VS209' => 0xE01C0, # VARIATION SELECTOR-209
332 'VS210' => 0xE01C1, # VARIATION SELECTOR-210
333 'VS211' => 0xE01C2, # VARIATION SELECTOR-211
334 'VS212' => 0xE01C3, # VARIATION SELECTOR-212
335 'VS213' => 0xE01C4, # VARIATION SELECTOR-213
336 'VS214' => 0xE01C5, # VARIATION SELECTOR-214
337 'VS215' => 0xE01C6, # VARIATION SELECTOR-215
338 'VS216' => 0xE01C7, # VARIATION SELECTOR-216
339 'VS217' => 0xE01C8, # VARIATION SELECTOR-217
340 'VS218' => 0xE01C9, # VARIATION SELECTOR-218
341 'VS219' => 0xE01CA, # VARIATION SELECTOR-219
342 'VS220' => 0xE01CB, # VARIATION SELECTOR-220
343 'VS221' => 0xE01CC, # VARIATION SELECTOR-221
344 'VS222' => 0xE01CD, # VARIATION SELECTOR-222
345 'VS223' => 0xE01CE, # VARIATION SELECTOR-223
346 'VS224' => 0xE01CF, # VARIATION SELECTOR-224
347 'VS225' => 0xE01D0, # VARIATION SELECTOR-225
348 'VS226' => 0xE01D1, # VARIATION SELECTOR-226
349 'VS227' => 0xE01D2, # VARIATION SELECTOR-227
350 'VS228' => 0xE01D3, # VARIATION SELECTOR-228
351 'VS229' => 0xE01D4, # VARIATION SELECTOR-229
352 'VS230' => 0xE01D5, # VARIATION SELECTOR-230
353 'VS231' => 0xE01D6, # VARIATION SELECTOR-231
354 'VS232' => 0xE01D7, # VARIATION SELECTOR-232
355 'VS233' => 0xE01D8, # VARIATION SELECTOR-233
356 'VS234' => 0xE01D9, # VARIATION SELECTOR-234
357 'VS235' => 0xE01DA, # VARIATION SELECTOR-235
358 'VS236' => 0xE01DB, # VARIATION SELECTOR-236
359 'VS237' => 0xE01DC, # VARIATION SELECTOR-237
360 'VS238' => 0xE01DD, # VARIATION SELECTOR-238
361 'VS239' => 0xE01DE, # VARIATION SELECTOR-239
362 'VS240' => 0xE01DF, # VARIATION SELECTOR-240
363 'VS241' => 0xE01E0, # VARIATION SELECTOR-241
364 'VS242' => 0xE01E1, # VARIATION SELECTOR-242
365 'VS243' => 0xE01E2, # VARIATION SELECTOR-243
366 'VS244' => 0xE01E3, # VARIATION SELECTOR-244
367 'VS245' => 0xE01E4, # VARIATION SELECTOR-245
368 'VS246' => 0xE01E5, # VARIATION SELECTOR-246
369 'VS247' => 0xE01E6, # VARIATION SELECTOR-247
370 'VS248' => 0xE01E7, # VARIATION SELECTOR-248
371 'VS249' => 0xE01E8, # VARIATION SELECTOR-249
372 'VS250' => 0xE01E9, # VARIATION SELECTOR-250
373 'VS251' => 0xE01EA, # VARIATION SELECTOR-251
374 'VS252' => 0xE01EB, # VARIATION SELECTOR-252
375 'VS253' => 0xE01EC, # VARIATION SELECTOR-253
376 'VS254' => 0xE01ED, # VARIATION SELECTOR-254
377 'VS255' => 0xE01EE, # VARIATION SELECTOR-255
378 'VS256' => 0xE01EF, # VARIATION SELECTOR-256
379 'WJ' => 0x2060, # WORD JOINER
380 'ZWJ' => 0x200D, # ZERO WIDTH JOINER
381 'ZWNJ' => 0x200C, # ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
382 'ZWSP' => 0x200B, # ZERO WIDTH SPACE
385 my %deprecated_aliases = (
386 # Pre-3.2 compatibility (only for the first 256 characters).
387 # Use of these gives deprecated message.
388 'HORIZONTAL TABULATION' => 0x09, # CHARACTER TABULATION
389 'VERTICAL TABULATION' => 0x0B, # LINE TABULATION
390 'FILE SEPARATOR' => 0x1C, # INFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR
391 'GROUP SEPARATOR' => 0x1D, # INFORMATION SEPARATOR THREE
392 'RECORD SEPARATOR' => 0x1E, # INFORMATION SEPARATOR TWO
393 'UNIT SEPARATOR' => 0x1F, # INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE
394 'HORIZONTAL TABULATION SET' => 0x88, # CHARACTER TABULATION SET
395 'HORIZONTAL TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION' => 0x89, # CHARACTER TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION
396 'PARTIAL LINE DOWN' => 0x8B, # PARTIAL LINE FORWARD
397 'PARTIAL LINE UP' => 0x8C, # PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD
398 'VERTICAL TABULATION SET' => 0x8A, # LINE TABULATION SET
399 'REVERSE INDEX' => 0x8D, # REVERSE LINE FEED
402 my %user_name_aliases = (
403 # User defined aliases. Even more convenient :)
404 # These are the ones that resolved to names
407 my %user_numeric_aliases = (
408 # And these resolve directly to code points.
410 my %inverse_user_aliases = (
411 # Map from code point to name
414 my $decimal_qr = qr/^[1-9]\d*$/;
416 # Returns the hex number in $1.
417 my $hex_qr = qr/^(?:[Uu]\+|0[xX])?([[:xdigit:]]+)$/;
421 require Carp; goto &Carp::croak;
426 require Carp; goto &Carp::carp;
431 my $alias = ref $_[0] ? $_[0] : { @_ };
432 foreach my $name (keys %$alias) {
433 my $value = $alias->{$name};
434 if ($value =~ $decimal_qr) {
435 $user_numeric_aliases{$name} = $value;
437 # Use a canonical form.
438 $inverse_user_aliases{sprintf("%04X", $value)} = $name;
440 elsif ($value =~ $hex_qr) {
441 my $decimal = CORE::hex $1;
442 $user_numeric_aliases{$name} = $decimal;
444 # Must convert to decimal and back to guarantee canonical form
445 $inverse_user_aliases{sprintf("%04X", $decimal)} = $name;
448 $user_name_aliases{$name} = $value;
453 sub not_legal_use_bytes_msg {
454 my ($name, $ord) = @_;
455 return sprintf("Character 0x%04x with name '$name' is above 0xFF with 'use bytes' in effect", $ord);
460 my ($arg, $file) = @_;
461 if (-f $arg && File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute ($arg)) {
464 elsif ($arg =~ m/^\w+$/) {
465 $file = "unicore/${arg}_alias.pl";
468 croak "Charnames alias files can only have identifier characters";
470 if (my @alias = do $file) {
471 @alias == 1 && !defined $alias[0] and
472 croak "$file cannot be used as alias file for charnames";
474 croak "$file did not return a (valid) list of alias pairs";
484 my $runtime = shift; # compile vs run time
486 # Finds the ordinal of a character name, first in the aliases, then in
487 # the large table. If not found, returns undef if runtime; complains
488 # and returns the Unicode replacement if compile.
489 # This is not optimized in any way yet
493 # User alias should be checked first or else can't override ours, and if we
494 # add any, could conflict with theirs.
495 if (exists $user_numeric_aliases{$name}) {
496 $ord = $user_numeric_aliases{$name};
498 elsif (exists $user_name_aliases{$name}) {
499 $name = $user_name_aliases{$name};
501 elsif (exists $system_aliases{$name}) {
502 $ord = $system_aliases{$name};
504 elsif (exists $deprecated_aliases{$name}) {
506 warnings::warnif('deprecated', "Unicode character name \"$name\" is deprecated, use \"" . viacode($deprecated_aliases{$name}) . "\" instead");
507 $ord = $deprecated_aliases{$name};
512 if (! defined $ord) {
513 ## Suck in the code/name list as a big string.
515 ## "0052\t\tLATIN CAPITAL LETTER R\n"
516 $txt = do "unicore/Name.pl" unless $txt;
518 ## @off will hold the index into the code/name string of the start and
519 ## end of the name as we find it.
521 ## If :full, look for the name exactly; runtime implies full
522 if (($runtime || $^H{charnames_full}) && $txt =~ /\t\t\Q$name\E$/m) {
523 @off = ($-[0] + 2, $+[0]); # The 2 is for the 2 tabs
526 ## If we didn't get above, and :short allowed, look for the short name.
527 ## The short name is like "greek:Sigma"
529 if (($runtime || $^H{charnames_short}) && $name =~ /^(.+?):(.+)/s) {
530 my ($script, $cname) = ($1, $2);
531 my $case = $cname =~ /[[:upper:]]/ ? "CAPITAL" : "SMALL";
532 if ($txt =~ m/\t\t\U$script\E (?:$case )?LETTER \U\Q$cname\E$/m) {
533 @off = ($-[0] + 2, $+[0]);
538 ## If we still don't have it, check for the name among the loaded
540 if (! $runtime && not @off) {
541 my $case = $name =~ /[[:upper:]]/ ? "CAPITAL" : "SMALL";
542 for my $script (@{$^H{charnames_scripts}}) {
543 if ($txt =~ m/\t\t$script (?:$case )?LETTER \U\Q$name\E$/m) {
544 @off = ($-[0] + 2, $+[0]);
550 ## If we don't have it by now, give up.
553 carp "Unknown charname '$name'";
558 ## Now know where in the string the name starts.
559 ## The code, in hex, is before that.
561 ## The code can be 4-6 characters long, so we've got to sort of
562 ## go look for it, just after the newline that comes before $off[0].
564 ## This would be much easier if unicore/Name.pl had info in
565 ## a name/code order, instead of code/name order.
567 ## The +1 after the rindex() is to skip past the newline we're finding,
568 ## or, if the rindex() fails, to put us to an offset of zero.
570 my $hexstart = rindex($txt, "\n", $off[0]) + 1;
572 ## we know where it starts, so turn into number -
573 ## the ordinal for the char.
574 $ord = CORE::hex substr($txt, $hexstart, $off[0] - 2 - $hexstart);
577 return $ord if $runtime || $ord <= 255 || ! ($^H & $bytes::hint_bits);
579 # Here is compile time, "use bytes" is in effect, and the character
580 # won't fit in a byte
583 # Get the official name if have one for the message
584 $name = substr($txt, $off[0], $off[1] - $off[0]) if @off;
586 croak not_legal_use_bytes_msg($name, $ord);
592 # For \N{...}. Looks up the character name and returns its ordinal if
593 # found, undef otherwise. If not in 'use bytes', forces into utf8
595 my $ord = lookup_name($name, 0); # 0 means compile-time
596 return unless defined $ord;
597 return chr $ord if $^H & $bytes::hint_bits;
599 no warnings 'utf8'; # allow even illegal characters
600 return pack "U", $ord;
605 shift; ## ignore class name
608 carp("`use charnames' needs explicit imports list");
610 $^H{charnames} = \&charnames ;
613 ## fill %h keys with our @_ args.
615 my ($promote, %h, @args) = (0);
616 while (my $arg = shift) {
617 if ($arg eq ":alias") {
619 croak ":alias needs an argument in charnames";
622 ref $alias eq "HASH" or
623 croak "Only HASH reference supported as argument to :alias";
627 if ($alias =~ m{:(\w+)$}) {
628 $1 eq "full" || $1 eq "short" and
629 croak ":alias cannot use existing pragma :$1 (reversed order?)";
630 alias_file ($1) and $promote = 1;
636 if (substr($arg, 0, 1) eq ':' and ! ($arg eq ":full" || $arg eq ":short")) {
637 warn "unsupported special '$arg' in charnames";
642 @args == 0 && $promote and @args = (":full");
643 @h{@args} = (1) x @args;
645 $^H{charnames_full} = delete $h{':full'};
646 $^H{charnames_short} = delete $h{':short'};
647 $^H{charnames_scripts} = [map uc, keys %h];
650 ## If utf8? warnings are enabled, and some scripts were given,
651 ## see if at least we can find one letter of each script.
653 if (warnings::enabled('utf8') && @{$^H{charnames_scripts}}) {
654 $txt = do "unicore/Name.pl" unless $txt;
656 for my $script (@{$^H{charnames_scripts}}) {
657 if (not $txt =~ m/\t\t$script (?:CAPITAL |SMALL )?LETTER /) {
658 warnings::warn('utf8', "No such script: '$script'");
664 my %viacode; # Cache of already-found codes
668 # Returns the name of the code point argument
671 carp "charnames::viacode() expects one argument";
677 # This is derived from Unicode::UCD, where it is nearly the same as the
678 # function _getcode(), but here it makes sure that even a hex argument
679 # has the proper number of leading zeros, which is critical in
680 # matching against $txt below
682 if ($arg =~ $decimal_qr) {
683 $hex = sprintf "%04X", $arg;
684 } elsif ($arg =~ $hex_qr) {
685 # Below is the line that differs from the _getcode() source
686 $hex = sprintf "%04X", hex $1;
688 carp("unexpected arg \"$arg\" to charnames::viacode()");
692 return $viacode{$hex} if exists $viacode{$hex};
694 # If the code point is above the max in the table, there's no point
695 # looking through it. Checking the length first is slightly faster
696 if (length($hex) <= 5 || CORE::hex($hex) <= 0x10FFFF) {
697 $txt = do "unicore/Name.pl" unless $txt;
699 # Return the official name, if exists. It's unclear to me (khw) at
700 # this juncture if it is better to return a user-defined override, so
701 # leaving it as is for now.
702 if ($txt =~ m/^$hex\t\t(.+)/m) {
708 # See if there is a user name for it, before giving up completely.
709 if (! exists $inverse_user_aliases{$hex}) {
710 if (CORE::hex($hex) > 0x10FFFF) {
711 carp "Unicode characters only allocated up to U+10FFFF (you asked for U+$hex)";
716 $viacode{$hex} = $inverse_user_aliases{$hex};
717 return $inverse_user_aliases{$hex};
720 my %vianame; # Cache of already-found names
725 carp "charnames::vianame() expects one name argument";
729 # Looks up the character name and returns its ordinal if
730 # found, undef otherwise.
734 if ($arg =~ /^U\+([0-9a-fA-F]+)$/) {
736 # khw claims that this is bad. The function should return either a
737 # an ord or a chr for all inputs; not be bipolar. Also, under 'use
738 # bytes', can create a chr above 255.
739 my $ord = CORE::hex $1;
740 return chr $ord if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
741 carp not_legal_use_bytes_msg($arg, $ord);
745 if (! exists $vianame{$arg}) {
746 $vianame{$arg} = lookup_name($arg, 1); # 1 means run-time
749 return $vianame{$arg};
758 charnames - access to Unicode character names and define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal escapes
762 use charnames ':full';
763 print "\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA} is called sigma.\n";
765 use charnames ':short';
766 print "\N{greek:Sigma} is an upper-case sigma.\n";
768 use charnames qw(cyrillic greek);
769 print "\N{sigma} is Greek sigma, and \N{be} is Cyrillic b.\n";
771 use charnames ":full", ":alias" => {
772 e_ACUTE => "LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE",
773 mychar => 0xE8000, # Private use area
775 print "\N{e_ACUTE} is a small letter e with an acute.\n";
776 print "\\N{mychar} allows me to name private use characters.\n";
779 print charnames::viacode(0x1234); # prints "ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SEE"
780 printf "%04X", charnames::vianame("GOTHIC LETTER AHSA"); # prints
785 Pragma C<use charnames> is used to gain access to the names of the
786 Unicode characters, and to allow you to define your own character names.
788 All forms of the pragma enable use of the
789 L</charnames::vianame(I<name>)> function for run-time lookup of a
790 character name to get its ordinal (code point), and the inverse
791 function, L</charnames::viacode(I<code>)>.
793 Forms other than C<S<"use charnames ();">> enable the use of of
794 C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}> sequences to compile a Unicode character into a
795 string based on its name.
797 Note that C<\N{U+I<...>}>, where the I<...> is a hexadecimal number,
798 also inserts a character into a string, but doesn't require the use of
799 this pragma. The character it inserts is the one whose code point
800 (ordinal value) is equal to the number. For example, C<"\N{U+263a}"> is
801 the Unicode (white background, black foreground) smiley face; it doesn't
802 require this pragma, whereas the equivalent, C<"\N{WHITE SMILING FACE}">
804 Also, C<\N{I<...>}> can mean a regex quantifier instead of a character
805 name, when the I<...> is a number (or comma separated pair of numbers;
806 see L<perlreref/QUANTIFIERS>), and is not related to this pragma.
808 The C<charnames> pragma supports arguments C<:full>, C<:short>, script
809 names and customized aliases. If C<:full> is present, for expansion of
810 C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}>, the string I<CHARNAME> is first looked up in the list of
811 standard Unicode character names. If C<:short> is present, and
812 I<CHARNAME> has the form C<I<SCRIPT>:I<CNAME>>, then I<CNAME> is looked up
813 as a letter in script I<SCRIPT>. If C<use charnames> is used
814 with script name arguments, then for C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}> the name
815 I<CHARNAME> is looked up as a letter in the given scripts (in the
816 specified order). Customized aliases can override these, and are explained in
819 For lookup of I<CHARNAME> inside a given script I<SCRIPTNAME>
820 this pragma looks for the names
822 SCRIPTNAME CAPITAL LETTER CHARNAME
823 SCRIPTNAME SMALL LETTER CHARNAME
824 SCRIPTNAME LETTER CHARNAME
826 in the table of standard Unicode names. If I<CHARNAME> is lowercase,
827 then the C<CAPITAL> variant is ignored, otherwise the C<SMALL> variant
830 Note that C<\N{...}> is compile-time; it's a special form of string
831 constant used inside double-quotish strings; this means that you cannot
832 use variables inside the C<\N{...}>. If you want similar run-time
833 functionality, use L<charnames::vianame()|/charnames::vianame(I<name>)>.
835 For the C0 and C1 control characters (U+0000..U+001F, U+0080..U+009F)
836 there are no official Unicode names but you can use instead the ISO 6429
837 names (LINE FEED, ESCAPE, and so forth, and their abbreviations, LF,
838 ESC, ...). In Unicode 3.2 (as of Perl 5.8) some naming changes took
839 place, and ISO 6429 was updated, see L</ALIASES>.
841 If the input name is unknown, C<\N{NAME}> raises a warning and
842 substitutes the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD).
844 It is a fatal error if C<use bytes> is in effect and the input name is
845 that of a character that won't fit into a byte (i.e., whose ordinal is
848 Otherwise, any string that includes a C<\N{I<charname>}> or
849 C<S<\N{U+I<code point>}>> will automatically have Unicode semantics (see
850 L<perlunicode/Byte and Character Semantics>).
854 A few aliases have been defined for convenience: instead of having
855 to use the official names
862 (yes, with parentheses), one can use
873 All the other standard abbreviations for the controls, such as C<ACK> for
874 C<ACKNOWLEDGE> also can be used.
881 and these abbreviations
883 Abbreviation Full Name
885 CGJ COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER
886 FVS1 MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR ONE
887 FVS2 MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR TWO
888 FVS3 MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR THREE
889 LRE LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING
890 LRM LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
891 LRO LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE
892 MMSP MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
893 MVS MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR
895 NNBSP NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
896 PDF POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
897 RLE RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING
898 RLM RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
899 RLO RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
901 VS1 VARIATION SELECTOR-1
905 VS256 VARIATION SELECTOR-256
907 ZWJ ZERO WIDTH JOINER
908 ZWNJ ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
909 ZWSP ZERO WIDTH SPACE
911 For backward compatibility one can use the old names for
912 certain C0 and C1 controls
916 FILE SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR
917 GROUP SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR THREE
918 HORIZONTAL TABULATION CHARACTER TABULATION
919 HORIZONTAL TABULATION SET CHARACTER TABULATION SET
920 HORIZONTAL TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION CHARACTER TABULATION
922 PARTIAL LINE DOWN PARTIAL LINE FORWARD
923 PARTIAL LINE UP PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD
924 RECORD SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR TWO
925 REVERSE INDEX REVERSE LINE FEED
926 UNIT SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE
927 VERTICAL TABULATION LINE TABULATION
928 VERTICAL TABULATION SET LINE TABULATION SET
930 but the old names in addition to giving the character
931 will also give a warning about being deprecated.
933 And finally, certain published variants are usable, including some for
934 controls that have no Unicode names:
938 END OF PROTECTED AREA END OF GUARDED AREA, U+0097
939 HIGH OCTET PRESET U+0081
944 PADDING CHARACTER U+0080
945 PRIVATE USE 1 PRIVATE USE ONE, U+0091
946 PRIVATE USE 2 PRIVATE USE TWO, U+0092
948 SINGLE GRAPHIC CHARACTER INTRODUCER U+0099
949 SINGLE-SHIFT 2 SINGLE SHIFT TWO, U+008E
950 SINGLE-SHIFT 3 SINGLE SHIFT THREE, U+008F
951 START OF PROTECTED AREA START OF GUARDED AREA, U+0096
953 =head1 CUSTOM ALIASES
955 You can add customized aliases to standard (C<:full>) Unicode naming
956 conventions. The aliases override any standard definitions, so, if
957 you're twisted enough, you can change C<"\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A}"> to
960 Note that an alias should not be something that is a legal curly
961 brace-enclosed quantifier (see L<perlreref/QUANTIFIERS>). For example
962 C<\N{123}> means to match 123 non-newline characters, and is not treated as a
963 charnames alias. Aliases are discouraged from beginning with anything
964 other than an alphabetic character and from containing anything other
965 than alphanumerics, spaces, dashes, parentheses, and underscores.
966 Currently they must be ASCII.
968 An alias can map to either an official Unicode character name or to a
969 numeric code point (ordinal). The latter is useful for assigning names
970 to code points in Unicode private use areas such as U+E800 through
971 U+F8FF. The number must look like an unsigned decimal integer, or a
972 hexadecimal constant beginning with C<0x>, or C<U+>.
974 Aliases are added either by the use of anonymous hashes:
976 use charnames ":alias" => {
977 e_ACUTE => "LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE",
980 my $str = "\N{e_ACUTE}";
982 or by using a file containing aliases:
984 use charnames ":alias" => "pro";
986 will try to read C<"unicore/pro_alias.pl"> from the C<@INC> path. This
987 file should return a list in plain perl:
990 A_GRAVE => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE",
991 A_CIRCUM => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX",
992 A_DIAERES => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS",
993 A_TILDE => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE",
994 A_BREVE => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE",
995 A_RING => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE",
996 A_MACRON => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON",
1000 Both these methods insert C<":full"> automatically as the first argument (if no
1001 other argument is given), and you can give the C<":full"> explicitly as
1004 use charnames ":full", ":alias" => "pro";
1006 =head1 charnames::viacode(I<code>)
1008 Returns the full name of the character indicated by the numeric code.
1011 print charnames::viacode(0x2722);
1013 prints "FOUR TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK".
1015 The name returned is the official name for the code point, if
1016 available, otherwise your custom alias for it. This means that your
1017 alias will only be returned for code points that don't have an official
1018 Unicode name (nor Unicode version 1 name), such as private use code
1019 points, and the 4 control characters U+0080, U+0081, U+0084, and U+0099.
1020 If you define more than one name for the code point, it is indeterminate
1021 which one will be returned.
1023 The function returns C<undef> if no name is known for the code point.
1024 In Unicode the proper name of these is the empty string, which
1025 C<undef> stringifies to. (If you ask for a code point past the legal
1026 Unicode maximum of U+10FFFF that you haven't assigned an alias to, you
1027 get C<undef> and a warning.)
1029 Notice that the name returned for of U+FEFF is "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK
1030 SPACE", not "BYTE ORDER MARK".
1032 =head1 charnames::vianame(I<name>)
1034 Returns the code point indicated by the name.
1037 printf "%04X", charnames::vianame("FOUR TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK");
1041 C<vianame> takes the identical inputs that C<\N{...}> does under the
1042 L<C<:full> and C<:short>|/DESCRIPTION> options to the C<charnames>
1043 pragma, including any L<custom aliases|/CUSTOM ALIASES> you may have
1046 There are just a few differences. The main one is that under
1047 most circumstances, (see L</BUGS> for the other ones), vianame returns
1048 an ord, whereas C<\\N{...}> is seamlessly placed as a chr into the
1049 string in which it appears. This leads to a second difference.
1050 Since an ord is returned, it can be that of any character, even one
1051 that isn't legal under the C<S<use bytes>> pragma. It is up to the
1052 caller to validate the return under C<S<use bytes>> before converting it
1055 The final difference is that if the input name is unknown C<vianame>
1056 returns C<undef> instead of the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, and it does not
1057 raise a warning message.
1059 =head1 CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
1061 The mechanism of translation of C<\N{...}> escapes is general and not
1062 hardwired into F<charnames.pm>. A module can install custom
1063 translations (inside the scope which C<use>s the module) with the
1064 following magic incantation:
1068 $^H{charnames} = \&translator;
1071 Here translator() is a subroutine which takes I<CHARNAME> as an
1072 argument, and returns text to insert into the string instead of the
1073 C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}> escape. Since the text to insert should be different
1074 in C<bytes> mode and out of it, the function should check the current
1075 state of C<bytes>-flag as in:
1077 use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits
1079 if ($^H & $bytes::hint_bits) {
1080 return bytes_translator(@_);
1083 return utf8_translator(@_);
1087 See L</CUSTOM ALIASES> above for restrictions on I<CHARNAME>.
1089 Of course, C<vianame> and C<viacode> would need to be overridden as
1094 vianame returns a chr if the input name is of the form C<U+...>, and an ord
1095 otherwise. It is proposed to change this to always return an ord. Send email
1096 to C<perl5-porters@perl.org> to comment on this proposal. If S<C<use
1097 bytes>> is in effect when a chr is returned, and if that chr won't fit
1098 into a byte, C<undef> is returned instead.
1100 All the Hangul syllable characters are treated as having no names, as
1101 are almost all the CJK Unicode characters that have their code points as
1102 part of their names.
1104 Names must be ASCII characters only, which means that you are out of luck if
1105 you want to create aliases in a language where some or all the characters of
1106 the desired aliases are non-ASCII.
1108 Unicode standard named sequences are not recognized, such as
1109 C<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON AND GRAVE>
1110 (which should mean C<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON> with an additional
1111 C<COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT>).
1113 Since evaluation of the translation function happens in the middle of
1114 compilation (of a string literal), the translation function should not
1115 do any C<eval>s or C<require>s. This restriction should be lifted (but
1116 is low priority) in a future version of Perl.