5 no warnings 'surrogate'; # surrogates can be inputs to this
12 our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
14 our @EXPORT_OK = qw(charinfo
16 charblocks charscripts
20 general_categories bidi_types
22 casefold all_casefolds casespec
36 sub IS_ASCII_PLATFORM { ord("A") == 65 }
40 Unicode::UCD - Unicode character database
44 use Unicode::UCD 'charinfo';
45 my $charinfo = charinfo($codepoint);
47 use Unicode::UCD 'charprop';
48 my $value = charprop($codepoint, $property);
50 use Unicode::UCD 'charprops_all';
51 my $all_values_hash_ref = charprops_all($codepoint);
53 use Unicode::UCD 'casefold';
54 my $casefold = casefold($codepoint);
56 use Unicode::UCD 'all_casefolds';
57 my $all_casefolds_ref = all_casefolds();
59 use Unicode::UCD 'casespec';
60 my $casespec = casespec($codepoint);
62 use Unicode::UCD 'charblock';
63 my $charblock = charblock($codepoint);
65 use Unicode::UCD 'charscript';
66 my $charscript = charscript($codepoint);
68 use Unicode::UCD 'charblocks';
69 my $charblocks = charblocks();
71 use Unicode::UCD 'charscripts';
72 my $charscripts = charscripts();
74 use Unicode::UCD qw(charscript charinrange);
75 my $range = charscript($script);
76 print "looks like $script\n" if charinrange($range, $codepoint);
78 use Unicode::UCD qw(general_categories bidi_types);
79 my $categories = general_categories();
80 my $types = bidi_types();
82 use Unicode::UCD 'prop_aliases';
83 my @space_names = prop_aliases("space");
85 use Unicode::UCD 'prop_value_aliases';
86 my @gc_punct_names = prop_value_aliases("Gc", "Punct");
88 use Unicode::UCD 'prop_values';
89 my @all_EA_short_names = prop_values("East_Asian_Width");
91 use Unicode::UCD 'prop_invlist';
92 my @puncts = prop_invlist("gc=punctuation");
94 use Unicode::UCD 'prop_invmap';
95 my ($list_ref, $map_ref, $format, $missing)
96 = prop_invmap("General Category");
98 use Unicode::UCD 'search_invlist';
99 my $index = search_invlist(\@invlist, $code_point);
101 use Unicode::UCD 'compexcl';
102 my $compexcl = compexcl($codepoint);
104 use Unicode::UCD 'namedseq';
105 my $namedseq = namedseq($named_sequence_name);
107 my $unicode_version = Unicode::UCD::UnicodeVersion();
109 my $convert_to_numeric =
110 Unicode::UCD::num("\N{RUMI DIGIT ONE}\N{RUMI DIGIT TWO}");
114 The Unicode::UCD module offers a series of functions that
115 provide a simple interface to the Unicode
118 =head2 code point argument
120 Some of the functions are called with a I<code point argument>, which is either
121 a decimal or a hexadecimal scalar designating a code point in the platform's
122 native character set (extended to Unicode), or a string containing C<U+>
123 followed by hexadecimals
124 designating a Unicode code point. A leading 0 will force a hexadecimal
125 interpretation, as will a hexadecimal digit that isn't a decimal digit.
129 223 # Decimal 223 in native character set
130 0223 # Hexadecimal 223, native (= 547 decimal)
131 0xDF # Hexadecimal DF, native (= 223 decimal
132 'U+DF' # Hexadecimal DF, in Unicode's character set
133 (= LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S)
135 Note that the largest code point in Unicode is U+10FFFF.
144 my $v_unicode_version; # v-string.
147 my ($rfh, @path) = @_;
149 unless (defined $$rfh) {
152 $f = File::Spec->catfile($d, "unicore", @path);
153 last if open($$rfh, $f);
156 croak __PACKAGE__, ": failed to find ",
157 File::Spec->catfile(@path), " in @INC"
163 sub _dclone ($) { # Use Storable::dclone if available; otherwise emulate it.
165 use if defined &DynaLoader::boot_DynaLoader, Storable => qw(dclone);
167 return dclone(shift) if defined &dclone;
171 return $arg unless $type; # No deep cloning needed for scalars
173 if ($type eq 'ARRAY') {
175 foreach my $element (@$arg) {
176 push @return, &_dclone($element);
180 elsif ($type eq 'HASH') {
182 foreach my $key (keys %$arg) {
183 $return{$key} = &_dclone($arg->{$key});
188 croak "_dclone can't handle " . $type;
194 use Unicode::UCD 'charinfo';
196 my $charinfo = charinfo(0x41);
198 This returns information about the input L</code point argument>
199 as a reference to a hash of fields as defined by the Unicode
200 standard. If the L</code point argument> is not assigned in the standard
201 (i.e., has the general category C<Cn> meaning C<Unassigned>)
202 or is a non-character (meaning it is guaranteed to never be assigned in
204 C<undef> is returned.
206 Fields that aren't applicable to the particular code point argument exist in the
207 returned hash, and are empty.
209 For results that are less "raw" than this function returns, or to get the values for
210 any property, not just the few covered by this function, use the
211 L</charprop()> function.
213 The keys in the hash with the meanings of their values are:
219 the input native L</code point argument> expressed in hexadecimal, with
221 added if necessary to make it contain at least four hexdigits
225 name of I<code>, all IN UPPER CASE.
226 Some control-type code points do not have names.
227 This field will be empty for C<Surrogate> and C<Private Use> code points,
228 and for the others without a name,
229 it will contain a description enclosed in angle brackets, like
230 C<E<lt>controlE<gt>>.
235 The short name of the general category of I<code>.
236 This will match one of the keys in the hash returned by L</general_categories()>.
238 The L</prop_value_aliases()> function can be used to get all the synonyms
239 of the category name.
243 the combining class number for I<code> used in the Canonical Ordering Algorithm.
244 For Unicode 5.1, this is described in Section 3.11 C<Canonical Ordering Behavior>
246 L<http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/>
248 The L</prop_value_aliases()> function can be used to get all the synonyms
249 of the combining class number.
253 bidirectional type of I<code>.
254 This will match one of the keys in the hash returned by L</bidi_types()>.
256 The L</prop_value_aliases()> function can be used to get all the synonyms
257 of the bidi type name.
259 =item B<decomposition>
261 is empty if I<code> has no decomposition; or is one or more codes
262 (separated by spaces) that, taken in order, represent a decomposition for
263 I<code>. Each has at least four hexdigits.
264 The codes may be preceded by a word enclosed in angle brackets, then a space,
265 like C<E<lt>compatE<gt> >, giving the type of decomposition
267 This decomposition may be an intermediate one whose components are also
268 decomposable. Use L<Unicode::Normalize> to get the final decomposition in one
273 if I<code> represents a decimal digit this is its integer numeric value
277 if I<code> represents some other digit-like number, this is its integer
282 if I<code> represents a whole or rational number, this is its numeric value.
283 Rational values are expressed as a string like C<1/4>.
287 C<Y> or C<N> designating if I<code> is mirrored in bidirectional text
291 name of I<code> in the Unicode 1.0 standard if one
292 existed for this code point and is different from the current name
296 As of Unicode 6.0, this is always empty.
300 is, if non-empty, the uppercase mapping for I<code> expressed as at least four
301 hexdigits. This indicates that the full uppercase mapping is a single
302 character, and is identical to the simple (single-character only) mapping.
303 When this field is empty, it means that the simple uppercase mapping is
304 I<code> itself; you'll need some other means, (like L</charprop()> or
305 L</casespec()> to get the full mapping.
309 is, if non-empty, the lowercase mapping for I<code> expressed as at least four
310 hexdigits. This indicates that the full lowercase mapping is a single
311 character, and is identical to the simple (single-character only) mapping.
312 When this field is empty, it means that the simple lowercase mapping is
313 I<code> itself; you'll need some other means, (like L</charprop()> or
314 L</casespec()> to get the full mapping.
318 is, if non-empty, the titlecase mapping for I<code> expressed as at least four
319 hexdigits. This indicates that the full titlecase mapping is a single
320 character, and is identical to the simple (single-character only) mapping.
321 When this field is empty, it means that the simple titlecase mapping is
322 I<code> itself; you'll need some other means, (like L</charprop()> or
323 L</casespec()> to get the full mapping.
327 the block I<code> belongs to (used in C<\p{Blk=...}>).
328 The L</prop_value_aliases()> function can be used to get all the synonyms
331 See L</Blocks versus Scripts>.
335 the script I<code> belongs to.
336 The L</prop_value_aliases()> function can be used to get all the synonyms
339 See L</Blocks versus Scripts>.
343 Note that you cannot do (de)composition and casing based solely on the
344 I<decomposition>, I<combining>, I<lower>, I<upper>, and I<title> fields; you
345 will need also the L</casespec()> function and the C<Composition_Exclusion>
346 property. (Or you could just use the L<lc()|perlfunc/lc>,
347 L<uc()|perlfunc/uc>, and L<ucfirst()|perlfunc/ucfirst> functions, and the
348 L<Unicode::Normalize> module.)
352 # NB: This function is nearly duplicated in charnames.pm
356 if ($arg =~ /^[1-9]\d*$/) {
359 elsif ($arg =~ /^(?:0[xX])?([[:xdigit:]]+)$/) {
360 return CORE::hex($1);
362 elsif ($arg =~ /^[Uu]\+([[:xdigit:]]+)$/) { # Is of form U+0000, means
363 # wants the Unicode code
364 # point, not the native one
365 my $decimal = CORE::hex($1);
366 return $decimal if IS_ASCII_PLATFORM;
367 return utf8::unicode_to_native($decimal);
373 # Populated by _num. Converts real number back to input rational
374 my %real_to_rational;
376 # To store the contents of files found on disk.
389 # This function has traditionally mimicked what is in UnicodeData.txt,
390 # warts and all. This is a re-write that avoids UnicodeData.txt so that
391 # it can be removed to save disk space. Instead, this assembles
392 # information gotten by other methods that get data from various other
393 # files. It uses charnames to get the character name; and various
396 use feature 'unicode_strings';
398 # Will fail if called under minitest
399 use if defined &DynaLoader::boot_DynaLoader, "Unicode::Normalize" => qw(getCombinClass NFD);
402 my $code = _getcode($arg);
403 croak __PACKAGE__, "::charinfo: unknown code '$arg'" unless defined $code;
405 # Non-unicode implies undef.
406 return if $code > 0x10FFFF;
409 my $char = chr($code);
411 @CATEGORIES =_read_table("To/Gc.pl") unless @CATEGORIES;
412 $prop{'category'} = _search(\@CATEGORIES, 0, $#CATEGORIES, $code)
413 // $utf8::SwashInfo{'ToGc'}{'missing'};
414 # Return undef if category value is 'Unassigned' or one of its synonyms
415 return if grep { lc $_ eq 'unassigned' }
416 prop_value_aliases('Gc', $prop{'category'});
418 $prop{'code'} = sprintf "%04X", $code;
419 $prop{'name'} = ($char =~ /\p{Cntrl}/) ? '<control>'
420 : (charnames::viacode($code) // "");
422 $prop{'combining'} = getCombinClass($code);
424 @BIDIS =_read_table("To/Bc.pl") unless @BIDIS;
425 $prop{'bidi'} = _search(\@BIDIS, 0, $#BIDIS, $code)
426 // $utf8::SwashInfo{'ToBc'}{'missing'};
428 # For most code points, we can just read in "unicore/Decomposition.pl", as
429 # its contents are exactly what should be output. But that file doesn't
430 # contain the data for the Hangul syllable decompositions, which can be
431 # algorithmically computed, and NFD() does that, so we call NFD() for
432 # those. We can't use NFD() for everything, as it does a complete
433 # recursive decomposition, and what this function has always done is to
434 # return what's in UnicodeData.txt which doesn't show that recursiveness.
435 # Fortunately, the NFD() of the Hanguls doesn't have any recursion
437 # Having no decomposition implies an empty field; otherwise, all but
438 # "Canonical" imply a compatible decomposition, and the type is prefixed
439 # to that, as it is in UnicodeData.txt
440 UnicodeVersion() unless defined $v_unicode_version;
441 if ($v_unicode_version ge v2.0.0 && $char =~ /\p{Block=Hangul_Syllables}/) {
442 # The code points of the decomposition are output in standard Unicode
443 # hex format, separated by blanks.
444 $prop{'decomposition'} = join " ", map { sprintf("%04X", $_)}
445 unpack "U*", NFD($char);
448 @DECOMPOSITIONS = _read_table("Decomposition.pl")
449 unless @DECOMPOSITIONS;
450 $prop{'decomposition'} = _search(\@DECOMPOSITIONS, 0, $#DECOMPOSITIONS,
454 # Can use num() to get the numeric values, if any.
455 if (! defined (my $value = num($char))) {
456 $prop{'decimal'} = $prop{'digit'} = $prop{'numeric'} = "";
460 $prop{'decimal'} = $prop{'digit'} = $prop{'numeric'} = $value;
464 # For non-decimal-digits, we have to read in the Numeric type
465 # to distinguish them. It is not just a matter of integer vs.
466 # rational, as some whole number values are not considered digits,
467 # e.g., TAMIL NUMBER TEN.
468 $prop{'decimal'} = "";
470 @NUMERIC_TYPES =_read_table("To/Nt.pl") unless @NUMERIC_TYPES;
471 if ((_search(\@NUMERIC_TYPES, 0, $#NUMERIC_TYPES, $code) // "")
474 $prop{'digit'} = $prop{'numeric'} = $value;
478 $prop{'numeric'} = $real_to_rational{$value} // $value;
483 $prop{'mirrored'} = ($char =~ /\p{Bidi_Mirrored}/) ? 'Y' : 'N';
485 %UNICODE_1_NAMES =_read_table("To/Na1.pl", "use_hash") unless %UNICODE_1_NAMES;
486 $prop{'unicode10'} = $UNICODE_1_NAMES{$code} // "";
488 UnicodeVersion() unless defined $v_unicode_version;
489 if ($v_unicode_version ge v6.0.0) {
490 $prop{'comment'} = "";
493 %ISO_COMMENT = _read_table("To/Isc.pl", "use_hash") unless %ISO_COMMENT;
494 $prop{'comment'} = (defined $ISO_COMMENT{$code})
495 ? $ISO_COMMENT{$code}
499 %SIMPLE_UPPER = _read_table("To/Uc.pl", "use_hash") unless %SIMPLE_UPPER;
500 $prop{'upper'} = (defined $SIMPLE_UPPER{$code})
501 ? sprintf("%04X", $SIMPLE_UPPER{$code})
504 %SIMPLE_LOWER = _read_table("To/Lc.pl", "use_hash") unless %SIMPLE_LOWER;
505 $prop{'lower'} = (defined $SIMPLE_LOWER{$code})
506 ? sprintf("%04X", $SIMPLE_LOWER{$code})
509 %SIMPLE_TITLE = _read_table("To/Tc.pl", "use_hash") unless %SIMPLE_TITLE;
510 $prop{'title'} = (defined $SIMPLE_TITLE{$code})
511 ? sprintf("%04X", $SIMPLE_TITLE{$code})
514 $prop{block} = charblock($code);
515 $prop{script} = charscript($code);
519 sub _search { # Binary search in a [[lo,hi,prop],[...],...] table.
520 my ($table, $lo, $hi, $code) = @_;
524 my $mid = int(($lo+$hi) / 2);
526 if ($table->[$mid]->[0] < $code) {
527 if ($table->[$mid]->[1] >= $code) {
528 return $table->[$mid]->[2];
530 _search($table, $mid + 1, $hi, $code);
532 } elsif ($table->[$mid]->[0] > $code) {
533 _search($table, $lo, $mid - 1, $code);
535 return $table->[$mid]->[2];
539 sub _read_table ($;$) {
541 # Returns the contents of the mktables generated table file located at $1
542 # in the form of either an array of arrays or a hash, depending on if the
543 # optional second parameter is true (for hash return) or not. In the case
544 # of a hash return, each key is a code point, and its corresponding value
545 # is what the table gives as the code point's corresponding value. In the
546 # case of an array return, each outer array denotes a range with [0] the
547 # start point of that range; [1] the end point; and [2] the value that
548 # every code point in the range has. The hash return is useful for fast
549 # lookup when the table contains only single code point ranges. The array
550 # return takes much less memory when there are large ranges.
552 # This function has the side effect of setting
553 # $utf8::SwashInfo{$property}{'format'} to be the mktables format of the
555 # $utf8::SwashInfo{$property}{'missing'} to be the value for all entries
556 # not listed in the table.
557 # where $property is the Unicode property name, preceded by 'To' for map
558 # properties., e.g., 'ToSc'.
560 # Table entries look like one of:
561 # 0000 0040 Common # [65]
565 my $return_hash = shift;
566 $return_hash = 0 unless defined $return_hash;
570 my $list = do "unicore/$table";
572 # Look up if this property requires adjustments, which we do below if it
574 require "unicore/Heavy.pl";
575 my $property = $table =~ s/\.pl//r;
576 $property = $utf8::file_to_swash_name{$property};
577 my $to_adjust = defined $property
578 && $utf8::SwashInfo{$property}{'format'} =~ / ^ a /x;
580 for (split /^/m, $list) {
581 my ($start, $end, $value) = / ^ (.+?) \t (.*?) \t (.+?)
582 \s* ( \# .* )? # Optional comment
584 my $decimal_start = hex $start;
585 my $decimal_end = ($end eq "") ? $decimal_start : hex $end;
586 $value = hex $value if $to_adjust
587 && $utf8::SwashInfo{$property}{'format'} eq 'ax';
589 foreach my $i ($decimal_start .. $decimal_end) {
590 $return{$i} = ($to_adjust)
591 ? $value + $i - $decimal_start
597 && $return[-1][1] == $decimal_start - 1
598 && $return[-1][2] eq $value)
600 # If this is merely extending the previous range, do just that.
601 $return[-1]->[1] = $decimal_end;
604 push @return, [ $decimal_start, $decimal_end, $value ];
607 return ($return_hash) ? %return : @return;
611 my ($range, $arg) = @_;
612 my $code = _getcode($arg);
613 croak __PACKAGE__, "::charinrange: unknown code '$arg'"
614 unless defined $code;
615 _search($range, 0, $#$range, $code);
620 use Unicode::UCD 'charprop';
622 print charprop(0x41, "Gc"), "\n";
623 print charprop(0x61, "General_Category"), "\n";
629 This returns the value of the Unicode property given by the second parameter
630 for the L</code point argument> given by the first.
632 The passed-in property may be specified as any of the synonyms returned by
635 The return value is always a scalar, either a string or a number. For
636 properties where there are synonyms for the values, the synonym returned by
637 this function is the longest, most descriptive form, the one returned by
638 L</prop_value_aliases()> when called in a scalar context. Of course, you can
639 call L</prop_value_aliases()> on the result to get other synonyms.
641 The return values are more "cooked" than the L</charinfo()> ones. For
642 example, the C<"uc"> property value is the actual string containing the full
643 uppercase mapping of the input code point. You have to go to extra trouble
644 with C<charinfo> to get this value from its C<upper> hash element when the
645 full mapping differs from the simple one.
647 Special note should be made of the return values for a few properties:
653 The value returned is the new-style (see L</Old-style versus new-style block
656 =item Decomposition_Mapping
658 Like L</charinfo()>, the result may be an intermediate decomposition whose
659 components are also decomposable. Use L<Unicode::Normalize> to get the final
660 decomposition in one step.
662 Unlike L</charinfo()>, this does not include the decomposition type. Use the
663 C<Decomposition_Type> property to get that.
667 If the input code point's name has more than one synonym, they are returned
668 joined into a single comma-separated string.
672 If the result is a fraction, it is converted into a floating point number to
673 the accuracy of your platform.
675 =item Script_Extensions
677 If the result is multiple script names, they are returned joined into a single
678 comma-separated string.
682 When called with a property that is a Perl extension that isn't expressible in
683 a compound form, this function currently returns C<undef>, as the only two
684 possible values are I<true> or I<false> (1 or 0 I suppose). This behavior may
685 change in the future, so don't write code that relies on it. C<Present_In> is
686 a Perl extension that is expressible in a bipartite or compound form (for
687 example, C<\p{Present_In=4.0}>), so C<charprop> accepts it. But C<Any> is a
688 Perl extension that isn't expressible that way, so C<charprop> returns
689 C<undef> for it. Also C<charprop> returns C<undef> for all Perl extensions
690 that are internal-only.
695 my ($input_cp, $prop) = @_;
697 my $cp = _getcode($input_cp);
698 croak __PACKAGE__, "::charprop: unknown code point '$input_cp'" unless defined $cp;
700 my ($list_ref, $map_ref, $format, $default)
701 = prop_invmap($prop);
702 return undef unless defined $list_ref;
704 my $i = search_invlist($list_ref, $cp);
705 croak __PACKAGE__, "::charprop: prop_invmap return is invalid for charprop('$input_cp', '$prop)" unless defined $i;
707 # $i is the index into both the inversion list and map of $cp.
708 my $map = $map_ref->[$i];
710 # Convert enumeration values to their most complete form.
712 my $long_form = prop_value_aliases($prop, $map);
713 $map = $long_form if defined $long_form;
716 if ($format =~ / ^ s /x) { # Scalars
717 return join ",", @$map if ref $map; # Convert to scalar with comma
718 # separated array elements
720 # Resolve ambiguity as to whether an all digit value is a code point
721 # that should be converted to a character, or whether it is really
722 # just a number. To do this, look at the default. If it is a
723 # non-empty number, we can safely assume the result is also a number.
724 if ($map =~ / ^ \d+ $ /ax && $default !~ / ^ \d+ $ /ax) {
727 elsif ($map =~ / ^ (?: Y | N ) $ /x) {
729 # prop_invmap() returns these values for properties that are Perl
730 # extensions. But this is misleading. For now, return undef for
731 # these, as currently documented.
733 exists $Unicode::UCD::prop_aliases{utf8::_loose_name(lc $prop)};
737 elsif ($format eq 'ar') { # numbers, including rationals
738 my $offset = $cp - $list_ref->[$i];
739 return $map if $map =~ /nan/i;
740 return $map + $offset if $offset != 0; # If needs adjustment
741 return eval $map; # Convert e.g., 1/2 to 0.5
743 elsif ($format =~ /^a/) { # Some entries need adjusting
745 # Linearize sequences into a string.
746 return join "", map { chr $_ } @$map if ref $map; # XXX && $format =~ /^ a [dl] /x;
748 return "" if $map eq "" && $format =~ /^a.*e/;
750 # These are all character mappings. Return the chr if no adjustment
752 return chr $cp if $map eq "0";
754 # Convert special entry.
755 if ($map eq '<hangul syllable>' && $format eq 'ad') {
756 use Unicode::Normalize qw(NFD);
760 # The rest need adjustment from the first entry in the inversion list
761 # corresponding to this map.
762 my $offset = $cp - $list_ref->[$i];
763 return chr($map + $cp - $list_ref->[$i]);
765 elsif ($format eq 'n') { # The name property
767 # There are two special cases, handled here.
768 if ($map =~ / ( .+ ) <code\ point> $ /x) {
769 $map = sprintf("$1%04X", $cp);
771 elsif ($map eq '<hangul syllable>') {
772 $map = charnames::viacode($cp);
777 croak __PACKAGE__, "::charprop: Internal error: unknown format '$format'. Please perlbug this";
781 =head2 B<charprops_all()>
783 use Unicode::UCD 'charprops_all';
785 my $%properties_of_A_hash_ref = charprops_all("U+41");
787 This returns a reference to a hash whose keys are all the distinct Unicode (no
788 Perl extension) properties, and whose values are the respective values for
789 those properties for the input L</code point argument>.
791 Each key is the property name in its longest, most descriptive form. The
792 values are what L</charprop()> would return.
794 This function is expensive in time and memory.
798 sub charprops_all($) {
799 my $input_cp = shift;
801 my $cp = _getcode($input_cp);
802 croak __PACKAGE__, "::charprops_all: unknown code point '$input_cp'" unless defined $cp;
806 require "unicore/UCD.pl";
808 foreach my $prop (keys %Unicode::UCD::prop_aliases) {
810 # Don't return a Perl extension. (This is the only one that
811 # %prop_aliases has in it.)
812 next if $prop eq 'perldecimaldigit';
814 # Use long name for $prop in the hash
815 $return{scalar prop_aliases($prop)} = charprop($cp, $prop);
821 =head2 B<charblock()>
823 use Unicode::UCD 'charblock';
825 my $charblock = charblock(0x41);
826 my $charblock = charblock(1234);
827 my $charblock = charblock(0x263a);
828 my $charblock = charblock("U+263a");
830 my $range = charblock('Armenian');
832 With a L</code point argument> C<charblock()> returns the I<block> the code point
833 belongs to, e.g. C<Basic Latin>. The old-style block name is returned (see
834 L</Old-style versus new-style block names>).
835 The L</prop_value_aliases()> function can be used to get all the synonyms
838 If the code point is unassigned, this returns the block it would belong to if
839 it were assigned. (If the Unicode version being used is so early as to not
840 have blocks, all code points are considered to be in C<No_Block>.)
842 See also L</Blocks versus Scripts>.
844 If supplied with an argument that can't be a code point, C<charblock()> tries to
845 do the opposite and interpret the argument as an old-style block name. On an
846 ASCII platform, the return value is a I<range set> with one range: an
847 anonymous array with a single element that consists of another anonymous array
848 whose first element is the first code point in the block, and whose second
849 element is the final code point in the block. On an EBCDIC
850 platform, the first two Unicode blocks are not contiguous. Their range sets
851 are lists containing I<start-of-range>, I<end-of-range> code point pairs. You
852 can test whether a code point is in a range set using the L</charinrange()>
853 function. (To be precise, each I<range set> contains a third array element,
854 after the range boundary ones: the old_style block name.)
856 If the argument to C<charblock()> is not a known block, C<undef> is
866 # Can't read from the mktables table because it loses the hyphens in the
869 UnicodeVersion() unless defined $v_unicode_version;
870 if ($v_unicode_version lt v2.0.0) {
871 my $subrange = [ 0, 0x10FFFF, 'No_Block' ];
872 push @BLOCKS, $subrange;
873 push @{$BLOCKS{'No_Block'}}, $subrange;
875 elsif (openunicode(\$BLOCKSFH, "Blocks.txt")) {
878 while (<$BLOCKSFH>) {
880 # Old versions used a different syntax to mark the range.
881 $_ =~ s/;\s+/../ if $v_unicode_version lt v3.1.0;
883 if (/^([0-9A-F]+)\.\.([0-9A-F]+);\s+(.+)/) {
884 my ($lo, $hi) = (hex($1), hex($2));
885 my $subrange = [ $lo, $hi, $3 ];
886 push @BLOCKS, $subrange;
887 push @{$BLOCKS{$3}}, $subrange;
891 if (! IS_ASCII_PLATFORM) {
892 # The first two blocks, through 0xFF, are wrong on EBCDIC
895 my @new_blocks = _read_table("To/Blk.pl");
897 # Get rid of the first two ranges in the Unicode version, and
898 # replace them with the ones computed by mktables.
901 delete $BLOCKS{'Basic Latin'};
902 delete $BLOCKS{'Latin-1 Supplement'};
904 # But there are multiple entries in the computed versions, and
905 # we change their names to (which we know) to be the old-style
907 for my $i (0.. @new_blocks - 1) {
908 if ($new_blocks[$i][2] =~ s/Basic_Latin/Basic Latin/
909 or $new_blocks[$i][2] =~
910 s/Latin_1_Supplement/Latin-1 Supplement/)
912 push @{$BLOCKS{$new_blocks[$i][2]}}, $new_blocks[$i];
915 splice @new_blocks, $i;
919 unshift @BLOCKS, @new_blocks;
928 _charblocks() unless @BLOCKS;
930 my $code = _getcode($arg);
933 my $result = _search(\@BLOCKS, 0, $#BLOCKS, $code);
934 return $result if defined $result;
937 elsif (exists $BLOCKS{$arg}) {
938 return _dclone $BLOCKS{$arg};
942 =head2 B<charscript()>
944 use Unicode::UCD 'charscript';
946 my $charscript = charscript(0x41);
947 my $charscript = charscript(1234);
948 my $charscript = charscript("U+263a");
950 my $range = charscript('Thai');
952 With a L</code point argument>, C<charscript()> returns the I<script> the
953 code point belongs to, e.g., C<Latin>, C<Greek>, C<Han>.
954 If the code point is unassigned or the Unicode version being used is so early
955 that it doesn't have scripts, this function returns C<"Unknown">.
956 The L</prop_value_aliases()> function can be used to get all the synonyms
959 If supplied with an argument that can't be a code point, charscript() tries
960 to do the opposite and interpret the argument as a script name. The
961 return value is a I<range set>: an anonymous array of arrays that contain
962 I<start-of-range>, I<end-of-range> code point pairs. You can test whether a
963 code point is in a range set using the L</charinrange()> function.
964 (To be precise, each I<range set> contains a third array element,
965 after the range boundary ones: the script name.)
967 If the C<charscript()> argument is not a known script, C<undef> is returned.
969 See also L</Blocks versus Scripts>.
978 UnicodeVersion() unless defined $v_unicode_version;
979 if ($v_unicode_version lt v3.1.0) {
980 push @SCRIPTS, [ 0, 0x10FFFF, 'Unknown' ];
983 @SCRIPTS =_read_table("To/Sc.pl");
986 foreach my $entry (@SCRIPTS) {
987 $entry->[2] =~ s/(_\w)/\L$1/g; # Preserve old-style casing
988 push @{$SCRIPTS{$entry->[2]}}, $entry;
995 _charscripts() unless @SCRIPTS;
997 my $code = _getcode($arg);
1000 my $result = _search(\@SCRIPTS, 0, $#SCRIPTS, $code);
1001 return $result if defined $result;
1002 return $utf8::SwashInfo{'ToSc'}{'missing'};
1003 } elsif (exists $SCRIPTS{$arg}) {
1004 return _dclone $SCRIPTS{$arg};
1010 =head2 B<charblocks()>
1012 use Unicode::UCD 'charblocks';
1014 my $charblocks = charblocks();
1016 C<charblocks()> returns a reference to a hash with the known block names
1017 as the keys, and the code point ranges (see L</charblock()>) as the values.
1019 The names are in the old-style (see L</Old-style versus new-style block
1022 L<prop_invmap("block")|/prop_invmap()> can be used to get this same data in a
1023 different type of data structure.
1025 L<prop_values("Block")|/prop_values()> can be used to get all
1026 the known new-style block names as a list, without the code point ranges.
1028 See also L</Blocks versus Scripts>.
1033 _charblocks() unless %BLOCKS;
1034 return _dclone \%BLOCKS;
1037 =head2 B<charscripts()>
1039 use Unicode::UCD 'charscripts';
1041 my $charscripts = charscripts();
1043 C<charscripts()> returns a reference to a hash with the known script
1044 names as the keys, and the code point ranges (see L</charscript()>) as
1047 L<prop_invmap("script")|/prop_invmap()> can be used to get this same data in a
1048 different type of data structure.
1050 L<C<prop_values("Script")>|/prop_values()> can be used to get all
1051 the known script names as a list, without the code point ranges.
1053 See also L</Blocks versus Scripts>.
1058 _charscripts() unless %SCRIPTS;
1059 return _dclone \%SCRIPTS;
1062 =head2 B<charinrange()>
1064 In addition to using the C<\p{Blk=...}> and C<\P{Blk=...}> constructs, you
1065 can also test whether a code point is in the I<range> as returned by
1066 L</charblock()> and L</charscript()> or as the values of the hash returned
1067 by L</charblocks()> and L</charscripts()> by using C<charinrange()>:
1069 use Unicode::UCD qw(charscript charinrange);
1071 $range = charscript('Hiragana');
1072 print "looks like hiragana\n" if charinrange($range, $codepoint);
1076 my %GENERAL_CATEGORIES =
1079 'LC' => 'CasedLetter',
1080 'Lu' => 'UppercaseLetter',
1081 'Ll' => 'LowercaseLetter',
1082 'Lt' => 'TitlecaseLetter',
1083 'Lm' => 'ModifierLetter',
1084 'Lo' => 'OtherLetter',
1086 'Mn' => 'NonspacingMark',
1087 'Mc' => 'SpacingMark',
1088 'Me' => 'EnclosingMark',
1090 'Nd' => 'DecimalNumber',
1091 'Nl' => 'LetterNumber',
1092 'No' => 'OtherNumber',
1093 'P' => 'Punctuation',
1094 'Pc' => 'ConnectorPunctuation',
1095 'Pd' => 'DashPunctuation',
1096 'Ps' => 'OpenPunctuation',
1097 'Pe' => 'ClosePunctuation',
1098 'Pi' => 'InitialPunctuation',
1099 'Pf' => 'FinalPunctuation',
1100 'Po' => 'OtherPunctuation',
1102 'Sm' => 'MathSymbol',
1103 'Sc' => 'CurrencySymbol',
1104 'Sk' => 'ModifierSymbol',
1105 'So' => 'OtherSymbol',
1107 'Zs' => 'SpaceSeparator',
1108 'Zl' => 'LineSeparator',
1109 'Zp' => 'ParagraphSeparator',
1113 'Cs' => 'Surrogate',
1114 'Co' => 'PrivateUse',
1115 'Cn' => 'Unassigned',
1118 sub general_categories {
1119 return _dclone \%GENERAL_CATEGORIES;
1122 =head2 B<general_categories()>
1124 use Unicode::UCD 'general_categories';
1126 my $categories = general_categories();
1128 This returns a reference to a hash which has short
1129 general category names (such as C<Lu>, C<Nd>, C<Zs>, C<S>) as keys and long
1130 names (such as C<UppercaseLetter>, C<DecimalNumber>, C<SpaceSeparator>,
1131 C<Symbol>) as values. The hash is reversible in case you need to go
1132 from the long names to the short names. The general category is the
1134 L</charinfo()> under the C<category> key.
1136 The L</prop_values()> and L</prop_value_aliases()> functions can be used as an
1137 alternative to this function; the first returning a simple list of the short
1138 category names; and the second gets all the synonyms of a given category name.
1144 'L' => 'Left-to-Right',
1145 'LRE' => 'Left-to-Right Embedding',
1146 'LRO' => 'Left-to-Right Override',
1147 'R' => 'Right-to-Left',
1148 'AL' => 'Right-to-Left Arabic',
1149 'RLE' => 'Right-to-Left Embedding',
1150 'RLO' => 'Right-to-Left Override',
1151 'PDF' => 'Pop Directional Format',
1152 'EN' => 'European Number',
1153 'ES' => 'European Number Separator',
1154 'ET' => 'European Number Terminator',
1155 'AN' => 'Arabic Number',
1156 'CS' => 'Common Number Separator',
1157 'NSM' => 'Non-Spacing Mark',
1158 'BN' => 'Boundary Neutral',
1159 'B' => 'Paragraph Separator',
1160 'S' => 'Segment Separator',
1161 'WS' => 'Whitespace',
1162 'ON' => 'Other Neutrals',
1165 =head2 B<bidi_types()>
1167 use Unicode::UCD 'bidi_types';
1169 my $categories = bidi_types();
1171 This returns a reference to a hash which has the short
1172 bidi (bidirectional) type names (such as C<L>, C<R>) as keys and long
1173 names (such as C<Left-to-Right>, C<Right-to-Left>) as values. The
1174 hash is reversible in case you need to go from the long names to the
1175 short names. The bidi type is the one returned from
1177 under the C<bidi> key. For the exact meaning of the various bidi classes
1178 the Unicode TR9 is recommended reading:
1179 L<http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/>
1180 (as of Unicode 5.0.0)
1182 The L</prop_values()> and L</prop_value_aliases()> functions can be used as an
1183 alternative to this function; the first returning a simple list of the short
1184 bidi type names; and the second gets all the synonyms of a given bidi type
1190 return _dclone \%BIDI_TYPES;
1193 =head2 B<compexcl()>
1195 use Unicode::UCD 'compexcl';
1197 my $compexcl = compexcl(0x09dc);
1199 This routine returns C<undef> if the Unicode version being used is so early
1200 that it doesn't have this property.
1202 C<compexcl()> is included for backwards
1203 compatibility, but as of Perl 5.12 and more modern Unicode versions, for
1204 most purposes it is probably more convenient to use one of the following
1207 my $compexcl = chr(0x09dc) =~ /\p{Comp_Ex};
1208 my $compexcl = chr(0x09dc) =~ /\p{Full_Composition_Exclusion};
1212 my $compexcl = chr(0x09dc) =~ /\p{CE};
1213 my $compexcl = chr(0x09dc) =~ /\p{Composition_Exclusion};
1215 The first two forms return B<true> if the L</code point argument> should not
1216 be produced by composition normalization. For the final two forms to return
1217 B<true>, it is additionally required that this fact not otherwise be
1218 determinable from the Unicode data base.
1220 This routine behaves identically to the final two forms. That is,
1221 it does not return B<true> if the code point has a decomposition
1222 consisting of another single code point, nor if its decomposition starts
1223 with a code point whose combining class is non-zero. Code points that meet
1224 either of these conditions should also not be produced by composition
1225 normalization, which is probably why you should use the
1226 C<Full_Composition_Exclusion> property instead, as shown above.
1228 The routine returns B<false> otherwise.
1234 my $code = _getcode($arg);
1235 croak __PACKAGE__, "::compexcl: unknown code '$arg'"
1236 unless defined $code;
1238 UnicodeVersion() unless defined $v_unicode_version;
1239 return if $v_unicode_version lt v3.0.0;
1241 no warnings "non_unicode"; # So works on non-Unicode code points
1242 return chr($code) =~ /\p{Composition_Exclusion}/;
1245 =head2 B<casefold()>
1247 use Unicode::UCD 'casefold';
1249 my $casefold = casefold(0xDF);
1250 if (defined $casefold) {
1251 my @full_fold_hex = split / /, $casefold->{'full'};
1252 my $full_fold_string =
1253 join "", map {chr(hex($_))} @full_fold_hex;
1254 my @turkic_fold_hex =
1255 split / /, ($casefold->{'turkic'} ne "")
1256 ? $casefold->{'turkic'}
1257 : $casefold->{'full'};
1258 my $turkic_fold_string =
1259 join "", map {chr(hex($_))} @turkic_fold_hex;
1261 if (defined $casefold && $casefold->{'simple'} ne "") {
1262 my $simple_fold_hex = $casefold->{'simple'};
1263 my $simple_fold_string = chr(hex($simple_fold_hex));
1266 This returns the (almost) locale-independent case folding of the
1267 character specified by the L</code point argument>. (Starting in Perl v5.16,
1268 the core function C<fc()> returns the C<full> mapping (described below)
1269 faster than this does, and for entire strings.)
1271 If there is no case folding for the input code point, C<undef> is returned.
1273 If there is a case folding for that code point, a reference to a hash
1274 with the following fields is returned:
1280 the input native L</code point argument> expressed in hexadecimal, with
1282 added if necessary to make it contain at least four hexdigits
1286 one or more codes (separated by spaces) that, taken in order, give the
1287 code points for the case folding for I<code>.
1288 Each has at least four hexdigits.
1292 is empty, or is exactly one code with at least four hexdigits which can be used
1293 as an alternative case folding when the calling program cannot cope with the
1294 fold being a sequence of multiple code points. If I<full> is just one code
1295 point, then I<simple> equals I<full>. If there is no single code point folding
1296 defined for I<code>, then I<simple> is the empty string. Otherwise, it is an
1297 inferior, but still better-than-nothing alternative folding to I<full>.
1301 is the same as I<simple> if I<simple> is not empty, and it is the same as I<full>
1302 otherwise. It can be considered to be the simplest possible folding for
1303 I<code>. It is defined primarily for backwards compatibility.
1307 is C<C> (for C<common>) if the best possible fold is a single code point
1308 (I<simple> equals I<full> equals I<mapping>). It is C<S> if there are distinct
1309 folds, I<simple> and I<full> (I<mapping> equals I<simple>). And it is C<F> if
1310 there is only a I<full> fold (I<mapping> equals I<full>; I<simple> is empty).
1312 describes the contents of I<mapping>. It is defined primarily for backwards
1315 For Unicode versions between 3.1 and 3.1.1 inclusive, I<status> can also be
1316 C<I> which is the same as C<C> but is a special case for dotted uppercase I and
1317 dotless lowercase i:
1321 =item Z<>B<*> If you use this C<I> mapping
1323 the result is case-insensitive,
1324 but dotless and dotted I's are not distinguished
1326 =item Z<>B<*> If you exclude this C<I> mapping
1328 the result is not fully case-insensitive, but
1329 dotless and dotted I's are distinguished
1335 contains any special folding for Turkic languages. For versions of Unicode
1336 starting with 3.2, this field is empty unless I<code> has a different folding
1337 in Turkic languages, in which case it is one or more codes (separated by
1338 spaces) that, taken in order, give the code points for the case folding for
1339 I<code> in those languages.
1340 Each code has at least four hexdigits.
1341 Note that this folding does not maintain canonical equivalence without
1342 additional processing.
1344 For Unicode versions between 3.1 and 3.1.1 inclusive, this field is empty unless
1346 special folding for Turkic languages, in which case I<status> is C<I>, and
1347 I<mapping>, I<full>, I<simple>, and I<turkic> are all equal.
1351 Programs that want complete generality and the best folding results should use
1352 the folding contained in the I<full> field. But note that the fold for some
1353 code points will be a sequence of multiple code points.
1355 Programs that can't cope with the fold mapping being multiple code points can
1356 use the folding contained in the I<simple> field, with the loss of some
1357 generality. In Unicode 5.1, about 7% of the defined foldings have no single
1360 The I<mapping> and I<status> fields are provided for backwards compatibility for
1361 existing programs. They contain the same values as in previous versions of
1364 Locale is not completely independent. The I<turkic> field contains results to
1365 use when the locale is a Turkic language.
1367 For more information about case mappings see
1368 L<http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21>
1375 unless (%CASEFOLD) { # Populate the hash
1376 my ($full_invlist_ref, $full_invmap_ref, undef, $default)
1377 = prop_invmap('Case_Folding');
1379 # Use the recipe given in the prop_invmap() pod to convert the
1380 # inversion map into the hash.
1381 for my $i (0 .. @$full_invlist_ref - 1 - 1) {
1382 next if $full_invmap_ref->[$i] == $default;
1384 for my $j ($full_invlist_ref->[$i] .. $full_invlist_ref->[$i+1] -1) {
1386 if (! ref $full_invmap_ref->[$i]) {
1388 # This is a single character mapping
1389 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'status'} = 'C';
1390 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'simple'}
1391 = $CASEFOLD{$j}{'full'}
1392 = $CASEFOLD{$j}{'mapping'}
1393 = sprintf("%04X", $full_invmap_ref->[$i] + $adjust);
1394 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'code'} = sprintf("%04X", $j);
1395 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'turkic'} = "";
1397 else { # prop_invmap ensures that $adjust is 0 for a ref
1398 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'status'} = 'F';
1399 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'full'}
1400 = $CASEFOLD{$j}{'mapping'}
1401 = join " ", map { sprintf "%04X", $_ }
1402 @{$full_invmap_ref->[$i]};
1403 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'simple'} = "";
1404 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'code'} = sprintf("%04X", $j);
1405 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'turkic'} = "";
1410 # We have filled in the full mappings above, assuming there were no
1411 # simple ones for the ones with multi-character maps. Now, we find
1412 # and fix the cases where that assumption was false.
1413 (my ($simple_invlist_ref, $simple_invmap_ref, undef), $default)
1414 = prop_invmap('Simple_Case_Folding');
1415 for my $i (0 .. @$simple_invlist_ref - 1 - 1) {
1416 next if $simple_invmap_ref->[$i] == $default;
1418 for my $j ($simple_invlist_ref->[$i]
1419 .. $simple_invlist_ref->[$i+1] -1)
1422 next if $CASEFOLD{$j}{'status'} eq 'C';
1423 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'status'} = 'S';
1424 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'simple'}
1425 = $CASEFOLD{$j}{'mapping'}
1426 = sprintf("%04X", $simple_invmap_ref->[$i] + $adjust);
1427 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'code'} = sprintf("%04X", $j);
1428 $CASEFOLD{$j}{'turkic'} = "";
1432 # We hard-code in the turkish rules
1433 UnicodeVersion() unless defined $v_unicode_version;
1434 if ($v_unicode_version ge v3.2.0) {
1436 # These two code points should already have regular entries, so
1437 # just fill in the turkish fields
1438 $CASEFOLD{ord('I')}{'turkic'} = '0131';
1439 $CASEFOLD{0x130}{'turkic'} = sprintf "%04X", ord('i');
1441 elsif ($v_unicode_version ge v3.1.0) {
1443 # These two code points don't have entries otherwise.
1444 $CASEFOLD{0x130}{'code'} = '0130';
1445 $CASEFOLD{0x131}{'code'} = '0131';
1446 $CASEFOLD{0x130}{'status'} = $CASEFOLD{0x131}{'status'} = 'I';
1447 $CASEFOLD{0x130}{'turkic'}
1448 = $CASEFOLD{0x130}{'mapping'}
1449 = $CASEFOLD{0x130}{'full'}
1450 = $CASEFOLD{0x130}{'simple'}
1451 = $CASEFOLD{0x131}{'turkic'}
1452 = $CASEFOLD{0x131}{'mapping'}
1453 = $CASEFOLD{0x131}{'full'}
1454 = $CASEFOLD{0x131}{'simple'}
1455 = sprintf "%04X", ord('i');
1462 my $code = _getcode($arg);
1463 croak __PACKAGE__, "::casefold: unknown code '$arg'"
1464 unless defined $code;
1466 _casefold() unless %CASEFOLD;
1468 return $CASEFOLD{$code};
1471 =head2 B<all_casefolds()>
1474 use Unicode::UCD 'all_casefolds';
1476 my $all_folds_ref = all_casefolds();
1477 foreach my $char_with_casefold (sort { $a <=> $b }
1478 keys %$all_folds_ref)
1480 printf "%04X:", $char_with_casefold;
1481 my $casefold = $all_folds_ref->{$char_with_casefold};
1483 # Get folds for $char_with_casefold
1485 my @full_fold_hex = split / /, $casefold->{'full'};
1486 my $full_fold_string =
1487 join "", map {chr(hex($_))} @full_fold_hex;
1488 print " full=", join " ", @full_fold_hex;
1489 my @turkic_fold_hex =
1490 split / /, ($casefold->{'turkic'} ne "")
1491 ? $casefold->{'turkic'}
1492 : $casefold->{'full'};
1493 my $turkic_fold_string =
1494 join "", map {chr(hex($_))} @turkic_fold_hex;
1495 print "; turkic=", join " ", @turkic_fold_hex;
1496 if (defined $casefold && $casefold->{'simple'} ne "") {
1497 my $simple_fold_hex = $casefold->{'simple'};
1498 my $simple_fold_string = chr(hex($simple_fold_hex));
1499 print "; simple=$simple_fold_hex";
1504 This returns all the case foldings in the current version of Unicode in the
1505 form of a reference to a hash. Each key to the hash is the decimal
1506 representation of a Unicode character that has a casefold to other than
1507 itself. The casefold of a semi-colon is itself, so it isn't in the hash;
1508 likewise for a lowercase "a", but there is an entry for a capital "A". The
1509 hash value for each key is another hash, identical to what is returned by
1510 L</casefold()> if called with that code point as its argument. So the value
1511 C<< all_casefolds()->{ord("A")}' >> is equivalent to C<casefold(ord("A"))>;
1515 sub all_casefolds () {
1516 _casefold() unless %CASEFOLD;
1517 return _dclone \%CASEFOLD;
1520 =head2 B<casespec()>
1522 use Unicode::UCD 'casespec';
1524 my $casespec = casespec(0xFB00);
1526 This returns the potentially locale-dependent case mappings of the L</code point
1527 argument>. The mappings may be longer than a single code point (which the basic
1528 Unicode case mappings as returned by L</charinfo()> never are).
1530 If there are no case mappings for the L</code point argument>, or if all three
1531 possible mappings (I<lower>, I<title> and I<upper>) result in single code
1532 points and are locale independent and unconditional, C<undef> is returned
1533 (which means that the case mappings, if any, for the code point are those
1534 returned by L</charinfo()>).
1536 Otherwise, a reference to a hash giving the mappings (or a reference to a hash
1537 of such hashes, explained below) is returned with the following keys and their
1540 The keys in the bottom layer hash with the meanings of their values are:
1546 the input native L</code point argument> expressed in hexadecimal, with
1548 added if necessary to make it contain at least four hexdigits
1552 one or more codes (separated by spaces) that, taken in order, give the
1553 code points for the lower case of I<code>.
1554 Each has at least four hexdigits.
1558 one or more codes (separated by spaces) that, taken in order, give the
1559 code points for the title case of I<code>.
1560 Each has at least four hexdigits.
1564 one or more codes (separated by spaces) that, taken in order, give the
1565 code points for the upper case of I<code>.
1566 Each has at least four hexdigits.
1570 the conditions for the mappings to be valid.
1571 If C<undef>, the mappings are always valid.
1572 When defined, this field is a list of conditions,
1573 all of which must be true for the mappings to be valid.
1574 The list consists of one or more
1575 I<locales> (see below)
1576 and/or I<contexts> (explained in the next paragraph),
1577 separated by spaces.
1578 (Other than as used to separate elements, spaces are to be ignored.)
1579 Case distinctions in the condition list are not significant.
1580 Conditions preceded by "NON_" represent the negation of the condition.
1582 A I<context> is one of those defined in the Unicode standard.
1583 For Unicode 5.1, they are defined in Section 3.13 C<Default Case Operations>
1585 L<http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/>.
1586 These are for context-sensitive casing.
1590 The hash described above is returned for locale-independent casing, where
1591 at least one of the mappings has length longer than one. If C<undef> is
1592 returned, the code point may have mappings, but if so, all are length one,
1593 and are returned by L</charinfo()>.
1594 Note that when this function does return a value, it will be for the complete
1595 set of mappings for a code point, even those whose length is one.
1597 If there are additional casing rules that apply only in certain locales,
1598 an additional key for each will be defined in the returned hash. Each such key
1599 will be its locale name, defined as a 2-letter ISO 3166 country code, possibly
1600 followed by a "_" and a 2-letter ISO language code (possibly followed by a "_"
1601 and a variant code). You can find the lists of all possible locales, see
1602 L<Locale::Country> and L<Locale::Language>.
1603 (In Unicode 6.0, the only locales returned by this function
1604 are C<lt>, C<tr>, and C<az>.)
1606 Each locale key is a reference to a hash that has the form above, and gives
1607 the casing rules for that particular locale, which take precedence over the
1608 locale-independent ones when in that locale.
1610 If the only casing for a code point is locale-dependent, then the returned
1611 hash will not have any of the base keys, like C<code>, C<upper>, etc., but
1612 will contain only locale keys.
1614 For more information about case mappings see
1615 L<http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/>
1622 unless (%CASESPEC) {
1623 UnicodeVersion() unless defined $v_unicode_version;
1624 if ($v_unicode_version lt v2.1.8) {
1627 elsif (openunicode(\$CASESPECFH, "SpecialCasing.txt")) {
1630 while (<$CASESPECFH>) {
1631 if (/^([0-9A-F]+); ([0-9A-F]+(?: [0-9A-F]+)*)?; ([0-9A-F]+(?: [0-9A-F]+)*)?; ([0-9A-F]+(?: [0-9A-F]+)*)?; (\w+(?: \w+)*)?/) {
1633 my ($hexcode, $lower, $title, $upper, $condition) =
1634 ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5);
1635 if (! IS_ASCII_PLATFORM) { # Remap entry to native
1636 foreach my $var_ref (\$hexcode,
1641 next unless defined $$var_ref;
1642 $$var_ref = join " ",
1643 map { sprintf("%04X",
1644 utf8::unicode_to_native(hex $_)) }
1645 split " ", $$var_ref;
1649 my $code = hex($hexcode);
1651 # In 2.1.8, there were duplicate entries; ignore all but
1652 # the first one -- there were no conditions in the file
1654 if (exists $CASESPEC{$code} && $v_unicode_version ne v2.1.8)
1656 if (exists $CASESPEC{$code}->{code}) {
1661 @{$CASESPEC{$code}}{qw(lower
1665 if (defined $oldcondition) {
1667 ($oldcondition =~ /^([a-z][a-z](?:_\S+)?)/);
1668 delete $CASESPEC{$code};
1669 $CASESPEC{$code}->{$oldlocale} =
1674 condition => $oldcondition };
1678 ($condition =~ /^([a-z][a-z](?:_\S+)?)/);
1679 $CASESPEC{$code}->{$locale} =
1684 condition => $condition };
1691 condition => $condition };
1702 my $code = _getcode($arg);
1703 croak __PACKAGE__, "::casespec: unknown code '$arg'"
1704 unless defined $code;
1706 _casespec() unless %CASESPEC;
1708 return ref $CASESPEC{$code} ? _dclone $CASESPEC{$code} : $CASESPEC{$code};
1711 =head2 B<namedseq()>
1713 use Unicode::UCD 'namedseq';
1715 my $namedseq = namedseq("KATAKANA LETTER AINU P");
1716 my @namedseq = namedseq("KATAKANA LETTER AINU P");
1717 my %namedseq = namedseq();
1719 If used with a single argument in a scalar context, returns the string
1720 consisting of the code points of the named sequence, or C<undef> if no
1721 named sequence by that name exists. If used with a single argument in
1722 a list context, it returns the list of the ordinals of the code points.
1725 arguments in a list context, it returns a hash with the names of all the
1726 named sequences as the keys and their sequences as strings as
1727 the values. Otherwise, it returns C<undef> or an empty list depending
1730 This function only operates on officially approved (not provisional) named
1733 Note that as of Perl 5.14, C<\N{KATAKANA LETTER AINU P}> will insert the named
1734 sequence into double-quoted strings, and C<charnames::string_vianame("KATAKANA
1735 LETTER AINU P")> will return the same string this function does, but will also
1736 operate on character names that aren't named sequences, without you having to
1737 know which are which. See L<charnames>.
1744 unless (%NAMEDSEQ) {
1745 if (openunicode(\$NAMEDSEQFH, "Name.pl")) {
1748 while (<$NAMEDSEQFH>) {
1749 if (/^ [0-9A-F]+ \ /x) {
1751 my ($sequence, $name) = split /\t/;
1752 my @s = map { chr(hex($_)) } split(' ', $sequence);
1753 $NAMEDSEQ{$name} = join("", @s);
1763 # Use charnames::string_vianame() which now returns this information,
1764 # unless the caller wants the hash returned, in which case we read it in,
1765 # and thereafter use it instead of calling charnames, as it is faster.
1767 my $wantarray = wantarray();
1768 if (defined $wantarray) {
1771 _namedseq() unless %NAMEDSEQ;
1776 $s = $NAMEDSEQ{ $_[0] };
1779 $s = charnames::string_vianame($_[0]);
1781 return defined $s ? map { ord($_) } split('', $s) : ();
1784 return $NAMEDSEQ{ $_[0] } if %NAMEDSEQ;
1785 return charnames::string_vianame($_[0]);
1794 my @numbers = _read_table("To/Nv.pl");
1795 foreach my $entry (@numbers) {
1796 my ($start, $end, $value) = @$entry;
1798 # If value contains a slash, convert to decimal, add a reverse hash
1800 if ((my @rational = split /\//, $value) == 2) {
1801 my $real = $rational[0] / $rational[1];
1802 $real_to_rational{$real} = $value;
1805 # Should only be single element, but just in case...
1806 for my $i ($start .. $end) {
1807 $NUMERIC{$i} = $value;
1811 # The values require adjusting, as is in 'a' format
1812 for my $i ($start .. $end) {
1813 $NUMERIC{$i} = $value + $i - $start;
1818 # Decided unsafe to use these that aren't officially part of the Unicode
1821 #my $pi = acos(-1.0);
1822 #$NUMERIC{0x03C0} = $pi;
1824 # Euler's constant, not to be confused with Euler's number
1825 #$NUMERIC{0x2107} = 0.57721566490153286060651209008240243104215933593992;
1828 #$NUMERIC{0x212F} = 2.7182818284590452353602874713526624977572;
1837 use Unicode::UCD 'num';
1839 my $val = num("123");
1840 my $one_quarter = num("\N{VULGAR FRACTION 1/4}");
1842 C<num()> returns the numeric value of the input Unicode string; or C<undef> if it
1843 doesn't think the entire string has a completely valid, safe numeric value.
1845 If the string is just one character in length, the Unicode numeric value
1846 is returned if it has one, or C<undef> otherwise. Note that this need
1847 not be a whole number. C<num("\N{TIBETAN DIGIT HALF ZERO}")>, for
1848 example returns -0.5.
1852 #A few characters to which Unicode doesn't officially
1853 #assign a numeric value are considered numeric by C<num>.
1856 # EULER CONSTANT 0.5772... (this is NOT Euler's number)
1857 # SCRIPT SMALL E 2.71828... (this IS Euler's number)
1858 # GREEK SMALL LETTER PI 3.14159...
1862 If the string is more than one character, C<undef> is returned unless
1863 all its characters are decimal digits (that is, they would match C<\d+>),
1864 from the same script. For example if you have an ASCII '0' and a Bengali
1865 '3', mixed together, they aren't considered a valid number, and C<undef>
1866 is returned. A further restriction is that the digits all have to be of
1867 the same form. A half-width digit mixed with a full-width one will
1868 return C<undef>. The Arabic script has two sets of digits; C<num> will
1869 return C<undef> unless all the digits in the string come from the same
1872 C<num> errs on the side of safety, and there may be valid strings of
1873 decimal digits that it doesn't recognize. Note that Unicode defines
1874 a number of "digit" characters that aren't "decimal digit" characters.
1875 "Decimal digits" have the property that they have a positional value, i.e.,
1876 there is a units position, a 10's position, a 100's, etc, AND they are
1877 arranged in Unicode in blocks of 10 contiguous code points. The Chinese
1878 digits, for example, are not in such a contiguous block, and so Unicode
1879 doesn't view them as decimal digits, but merely digits, and so C<\d> will not
1880 match them. A single-character string containing one of these digits will
1881 have its decimal value returned by C<num>, but any longer string containing
1882 only these digits will return C<undef>.
1884 Strings of multiple sub- and superscripts are not recognized as numbers. You
1885 can use either of the compatibility decompositions in Unicode::Normalize to
1886 change these into digits, and then call C<num> on the result.
1890 # To handle sub, superscripts, this could if called in list context,
1891 # consider those, and return the <decomposition> type in the second
1897 _numeric unless %NUMERIC;
1899 my $length = length($string);
1900 return $NUMERIC{ord($string)} if $length == 1;
1901 return if $string =~ /\D/;
1902 my $first_ord = ord(substr($string, 0, 1));
1903 my $value = $NUMERIC{$first_ord};
1905 # To be a valid decimal number, it should be in a block of 10 consecutive
1906 # characters, whose values are 0, 1, 2, ... 9. Therefore this digit's
1907 # value is its offset in that block from the character that means zero.
1908 my $zero_ord = $first_ord - $value;
1910 # Unicode 6.0 instituted the rule that only digits in a consecutive
1911 # block of 10 would be considered decimal digits. If this is an earlier
1912 # release, we verify that this first character is a member of such a
1913 # block. That is, that the block of characters surrounding this one
1914 # consists of all \d characters whose numeric values are the expected
1916 UnicodeVersion() unless defined $v_unicode_version;
1917 if ($v_unicode_version lt v6.0.0) {
1918 for my $i (0 .. 9) {
1919 my $ord = $zero_ord + $i;
1920 return unless chr($ord) =~ /\d/;
1921 my $numeric = $NUMERIC{$ord};
1922 return unless defined $numeric;
1923 return unless $numeric == $i;
1927 for my $i (1 .. $length -1) {
1929 # Here we know either by verifying, or by fact of the first character
1930 # being a \d in Unicode 6.0 or later, that any character between the
1931 # character that means 0, and 9 positions above it must be \d, and
1932 # must have its value correspond to its offset from the zero. Any
1933 # characters outside these 10 do not form a legal number for this
1935 my $ord = ord(substr($string, $i, 1));
1936 my $digit = $ord - $zero_ord;
1937 return unless $digit >= 0 && $digit <= 9;
1938 $value = $value * 10 + $digit;
1946 =head2 B<prop_aliases()>
1948 use Unicode::UCD 'prop_aliases';
1950 my ($short_name, $full_name, @other_names) = prop_aliases("space");
1951 my $same_full_name = prop_aliases("Space"); # Scalar context
1952 my ($same_short_name) = prop_aliases("Space"); # gets 0th element
1953 print "The full name is $full_name\n";
1954 print "The short name is $short_name\n";
1955 print "The other aliases are: ", join(", ", @other_names), "\n";
1958 The full name is White_Space
1959 The short name is WSpace
1960 The other aliases are: Space
1962 Most Unicode properties have several synonymous names. Typically, there is at
1963 least a short name, convenient to type, and a long name that more fully
1964 describes the property, and hence is more easily understood.
1966 If you know one name for a Unicode property, you can use C<prop_aliases> to find
1967 either the long name (when called in scalar context), or a list of all of the
1968 names, somewhat ordered so that the short name is in the 0th element, the long
1969 name in the next element, and any other synonyms are in the remaining
1970 elements, in no particular order.
1972 The long name is returned in a form nicely capitalized, suitable for printing.
1974 The input parameter name is loosely matched, which means that white space,
1975 hyphens, and underscores are ignored (except for the trailing underscore in
1976 the old_form grandfathered-in C<"L_">, which is better written as C<"LC">, and
1977 both of which mean C<General_Category=Cased Letter>).
1979 If the name is unknown, C<undef> is returned (or an empty list in list
1980 context). Note that Perl typically recognizes property names in regular
1981 expressions with an optional C<"Is_>" (with or without the underscore)
1982 prefixed to them, such as C<\p{isgc=punct}>. This function does not recognize
1983 those in the input, returning C<undef>. Nor are they included in the output
1984 as possible synonyms.
1986 C<prop_aliases> does know about the Perl extensions to Unicode properties,
1987 such as C<Any> and C<XPosixAlpha>, and the single form equivalents to Unicode
1988 properties such as C<XDigit>, C<Greek>, C<In_Greek>, and C<Is_Greek>. The
1989 final example demonstrates that the C<"Is_"> prefix is recognized for these
1990 extensions; it is needed to resolve ambiguities. For example,
1991 C<prop_aliases('lc')> returns the list C<(lc, Lowercase_Mapping)>, but
1992 C<prop_aliases('islc')> returns C<(Is_LC, Cased_Letter)>. This is
1993 because C<islc> is a Perl extension which is short for
1994 C<General_Category=Cased Letter>. The lists returned for the Perl extensions
1995 will not include the C<"Is_"> prefix (whether or not the input had it) unless
1996 needed to resolve ambiguities, as shown in the C<"islc"> example, where the
1997 returned list had one element containing C<"Is_">, and the other without.
1999 It is also possible for the reverse to happen: C<prop_aliases('isc')> returns
2000 the list C<(isc, ISO_Comment)>; whereas C<prop_aliases('c')> returns
2001 C<(C, Other)> (the latter being a Perl extension meaning
2002 C<General_Category=Other>.
2003 L<perluniprops/Properties accessible through Unicode::UCD> lists the available
2004 forms, including which ones are discouraged from use.
2006 Those discouraged forms are accepted as input to C<prop_aliases>, but are not
2007 returned in the lists. C<prop_aliases('isL&')> and C<prop_aliases('isL_')>,
2008 which are old synonyms for C<"Is_LC"> and should not be used in new code, are
2009 examples of this. These both return C<(Is_LC, Cased_Letter)>. Thus this
2010 function allows you to take a discouraged form, and find its acceptable
2011 alternatives. The same goes with single-form Block property equivalences.
2012 Only the forms that begin with C<"In_"> are not discouraged; if you pass
2013 C<prop_aliases> a discouraged form, you will get back the equivalent ones that
2014 begin with C<"In_">. It will otherwise look like a new-style block name (see.
2015 L</Old-style versus new-style block names>).
2017 C<prop_aliases> does not know about any user-defined properties, and will
2018 return C<undef> if called with one of those. Likewise for Perl internal
2019 properties, with the exception of "Perl_Decimal_Digit" which it does know
2020 about (and which is documented below in L</prop_invmap()>).
2024 # It may be that there are use cases where the discouraged forms should be
2025 # returned. If that comes up, an optional boolean second parameter to the
2026 # function could be created, for example.
2028 # These are created by mktables for this routine and stored in unicore/UCD.pl
2029 # where their structures are described.
2030 our %string_property_loose_to_name;
2031 our %ambiguous_names;
2032 our %loose_perlprop_to_name;
2035 sub prop_aliases ($) {
2037 return unless defined $prop;
2039 require "unicore/UCD.pl";
2040 require "unicore/Heavy.pl";
2041 require "utf8_heavy.pl";
2043 # The property name may be loosely or strictly matched; we don't know yet.
2044 # But both types use lower-case.
2047 # It is loosely matched if its lower case isn't known to be strict.
2049 if (! exists $utf8::stricter_to_file_of{$prop}) {
2050 my $loose = utf8::_loose_name($prop);
2052 # There is a hash that converts from any loose name to its standard
2053 # form, mapping all synonyms for a name to one name that can be used
2054 # as a key into another hash. The whole concept is for memory
2055 # savings, as the second hash doesn't have to have all the
2056 # combinations. Actually, there are two hashes that do the
2057 # converstion. One is used in utf8_heavy.pl (stored in Heavy.pl) for
2058 # looking up properties matchable in regexes. This function needs to
2059 # access string properties, which aren't available in regexes, so a
2060 # second conversion hash is made for them (stored in UCD.pl). Look in
2061 # the string one now, as the rest can have an optional 'is' prefix,
2062 # which these don't.
2063 if (exists $string_property_loose_to_name{$loose}) {
2065 # Convert to its standard loose name.
2066 $prop = $string_property_loose_to_name{$loose};
2069 my $retrying = 0; # bool. ? Has an initial 'is' been stripped
2071 if (exists $utf8::loose_property_name_of{$loose}
2073 || ! exists $ambiguous_names{$loose}))
2075 # Found an entry giving the standard form. We don't get here
2076 # (in the test above) when we've stripped off an
2077 # 'is' and the result is an ambiguous name. That is because
2078 # these are official Unicode properties (though Perl can have
2079 # an optional 'is' prefix meaning the official property), and
2080 # all ambiguous cases involve a Perl single-form extension
2081 # for the gc, script, or block properties, and the stripped
2082 # 'is' means that they mean one of those, and not one of
2084 $prop = $utf8::loose_property_name_of{$loose};
2086 elsif (exists $loose_perlprop_to_name{$loose}) {
2088 # This hash is specifically for this function to list Perl
2089 # extensions that aren't in the earlier hashes. If there is
2090 # only one element, the short and long names are identical.
2091 # Otherwise the form is already in the same form as
2092 # %prop_aliases, which is handled at the end of the function.
2093 $list_ref = $loose_perlprop_to_name{$loose};
2094 if (@$list_ref == 1) {
2095 my @list = ($list_ref->[0], $list_ref->[0]);
2099 elsif (! exists $utf8::loose_to_file_of{$loose}) {
2101 # loose_to_file_of is a complete list of loose names. If not
2102 # there, the input is unknown.
2105 elsif ($loose =~ / [:=] /x) {
2107 # Here we found the name but not its aliases, so it has to
2108 # exist. Exclude property-value combinations. (This shows up
2109 # for something like ccc=vr which matches loosely, but is a
2110 # synonym for ccc=9 which matches only strictly.
2115 # Here it has to exist, and isn't a property-value
2116 # combination. This means it must be one of the Perl
2117 # single-form extensions. First see if it is for a
2118 # property-value combination in one of the following
2121 foreach my $property ("gc", "script") {
2122 @list = prop_value_aliases($property, $loose);
2127 # Here, it is one of those property-value combination
2128 # single-form synonyms. There are ambiguities with some
2129 # of these. Check against the list for these, and adjust
2131 for my $i (0 .. @list -1) {
2132 if (exists $ambiguous_names
2133 {utf8::_loose_name(lc $list[$i])})
2135 # The ambiguity is resolved by toggling whether or
2136 # not it has an 'is' prefix
2137 $list[$i] =~ s/^Is_// or $list[$i] =~ s/^/Is_/;
2143 # Here, it wasn't one of the gc or script single-form
2144 # extensions. It could be a block property single-form
2145 # extension. An 'in' prefix definitely means that, and should
2146 # be looked up without the prefix. However, starting in
2147 # Unicode 6.1, we have to special case 'indic...', as there
2148 # is a property that begins with that name. We shouldn't
2149 # strip the 'in' from that. I'm (khw) generalizing this to
2150 # 'indic' instead of the single property, because I suspect
2151 # that others of this class may come along in the future.
2152 # However, this could backfire and a block created whose name
2153 # begins with 'dic...', and we would want to strip the 'in'.
2154 # At which point this would have to be tweaked.
2155 my $began_with_in = $loose =~ s/^in(?!dic)//;
2156 @list = prop_value_aliases("block", $loose);
2158 map { $_ =~ s/^/In_/ } @list;
2162 # Here still haven't found it. The last opportunity for it
2163 # being valid is only if it began with 'is'. We retry without
2164 # the 'is', setting a flag to that effect so that we don't
2165 # accept things that begin with 'isis...'
2166 if (! $retrying && ! $began_with_in && $loose =~ s/^is//) {
2171 # Here, didn't find it. Since it was in %loose_to_file_of, we
2172 # should have been able to find it.
2173 carp __PACKAGE__, "::prop_aliases: Unexpectedly could not find '$prop'. Send bug report to perlbug\@perl.org";
2180 # Here, we have set $prop to a standard form name of the input. Look
2181 # it up in the structure created by mktables for this purpose, which
2182 # contains both strict and loosely matched properties. Avoid
2184 $list_ref = $prop_aliases{$prop} if exists $prop_aliases{$prop};
2185 return unless $list_ref;
2188 # The full name is in element 1.
2189 return $list_ref->[1] unless wantarray;
2191 return @{_dclone $list_ref};
2196 =head2 B<prop_values()>
2198 use Unicode::UCD 'prop_values';
2200 print "AHex values are: ", join(", ", prop_values("AHex")),
2203 AHex values are: N, Y
2205 Some Unicode properties have a restricted set of legal values. For example,
2206 all binary properties are restricted to just C<true> or C<false>; and there
2207 are only a few dozen possible General Categories. Use C<prop_values>
2208 to find out if a given property is one such, and if so, to get a list of the
2211 print join ", ", prop_values("NFC_Quick_Check");
2215 If the property doesn't have such a restricted set, C<undef> is returned.
2217 There are usually several synonyms for each possible value. Use
2218 L</prop_value_aliases()> to access those.
2220 Case, white space, hyphens, and underscores are ignored in the input property
2221 name (except for the trailing underscore in the old-form grandfathered-in
2222 general category property value C<"L_">, which is better written as C<"LC">).
2224 If the property name is unknown, C<undef> is returned. Note that Perl typically
2225 recognizes property names in regular expressions with an optional C<"Is_>"
2226 (with or without the underscore) prefixed to them, such as C<\p{isgc=punct}>.
2227 This function does not recognize those in the property parameter, returning
2230 For the block property, new-style block names are returned (see
2231 L</Old-style versus new-style block names>).
2233 C<prop_values> does not know about any user-defined properties, and
2234 will return C<undef> if called with one of those.
2238 # These are created by mktables for this module and stored in unicore/UCD.pl
2239 # where their structures are described.
2240 our %loose_to_standard_value;
2241 our %prop_value_aliases;
2243 sub prop_values ($) {
2245 return undef unless defined $prop;
2247 require "unicore/UCD.pl";
2248 require "utf8_heavy.pl";
2250 # Find the property name synonym that's used as the key in other hashes,
2251 # which is element 0 in the returned list.
2252 ($prop) = prop_aliases($prop);
2253 return undef if ! $prop;
2254 $prop = utf8::_loose_name(lc $prop);
2256 # Here is a legal property.
2257 return undef unless exists $prop_value_aliases{$prop};
2259 foreach my $value_key (sort { lc $a cmp lc $b }
2260 keys %{$prop_value_aliases{$prop}})
2262 push @return, $prop_value_aliases{$prop}{$value_key}[0];
2269 =head2 B<prop_value_aliases()>
2271 use Unicode::UCD 'prop_value_aliases';
2273 my ($short_name, $full_name, @other_names)
2274 = prop_value_aliases("Gc", "Punct");
2275 my $same_full_name = prop_value_aliases("Gc", "P"); # Scalar cntxt
2276 my ($same_short_name) = prop_value_aliases("Gc", "P"); # gets 0th
2278 print "The full name is $full_name\n";
2279 print "The short name is $short_name\n";
2280 print "The other aliases are: ", join(", ", @other_names), "\n";
2283 The full name is Punctuation
2285 The other aliases are: Punct
2287 Some Unicode properties have a restricted set of legal values. For example,
2288 all binary properties are restricted to just C<true> or C<false>; and there
2289 are only a few dozen possible General Categories.
2291 You can use L</prop_values()> to find out if a given property is one which has
2292 a restricted set of values, and if so, what those values are. But usually
2293 each value actually has several synonyms. For example, in Unicode binary
2294 properties, I<truth> can be represented by any of the strings "Y", "Yes", "T",
2295 or "True"; and the General Category "Punctuation" by that string, or "Punct",
2298 Like property names, there is typically at least a short name for each such
2299 property-value, and a long name. If you know any name of the property-value
2300 (which you can get by L</prop_values()>, you can use C<prop_value_aliases>()
2301 to get the long name (when called in scalar context), or a list of all the
2302 names, with the short name in the 0th element, the long name in the next
2303 element, and any other synonyms in the remaining elements, in no particular
2304 order, except that any all-numeric synonyms will be last.
2306 The long name is returned in a form nicely capitalized, suitable for printing.
2308 Case, white space, hyphens, and underscores are ignored in the input parameters
2309 (except for the trailing underscore in the old-form grandfathered-in general
2310 category property value C<"L_">, which is better written as C<"LC">).
2312 If either name is unknown, C<undef> is returned. Note that Perl typically
2313 recognizes property names in regular expressions with an optional C<"Is_>"
2314 (with or without the underscore) prefixed to them, such as C<\p{isgc=punct}>.
2315 This function does not recognize those in the property parameter, returning
2318 If called with a property that doesn't have synonyms for its values, it
2319 returns the input value, possibly normalized with capitalization and
2320 underscores, but not necessarily checking that the input value is valid.
2322 For the block property, new-style block names are returned (see
2323 L</Old-style versus new-style block names>).
2325 To find the synonyms for single-forms, such as C<\p{Any}>, use
2326 L</prop_aliases()> instead.
2328 C<prop_value_aliases> does not know about any user-defined properties, and
2329 will return C<undef> if called with one of those.
2333 sub prop_value_aliases ($$) {
2334 my ($prop, $value) = @_;
2335 return unless defined $prop && defined $value;
2337 require "unicore/UCD.pl";
2338 require "utf8_heavy.pl";
2340 # Find the property name synonym that's used as the key in other hashes,
2341 # which is element 0 in the returned list.
2342 ($prop) = prop_aliases($prop);
2344 $prop = utf8::_loose_name(lc $prop);
2346 # Here is a legal property, but the hash below (created by mktables for
2347 # this purpose) only knows about the properties that have a very finite
2348 # number of potential values, that is not ones whose value could be
2349 # anything, like most (if not all) string properties. These don't have
2350 # synonyms anyway. Simply return the input. For example, there is no
2351 # synonym for ('Uppercase_Mapping', A').
2352 if (! exists $prop_value_aliases{$prop}) {
2354 # Here, we have a legal property, but an unknown value. Since the
2355 # property is legal, if it isn't in the prop_aliases hash, it must be
2356 # a Perl-extension All perl extensions are binary, hence are
2357 # enumerateds, which means that we know that the input unknown value
2359 return if ! exists $Unicode::UCD::prop_aliases{$prop};
2361 # Otherwise, we assume it's valid, as documented.
2365 # The value name may be loosely or strictly matched; we don't know yet.
2366 # But both types use lower-case.
2369 # If the name isn't found under loose matching, it certainly won't be
2370 # found under strict
2371 my $loose_value = utf8::_loose_name($value);
2372 return unless exists $loose_to_standard_value{"$prop=$loose_value"};
2374 # Similarly if the combination under loose matching doesn't exist, it
2375 # won't exist under strict.
2376 my $standard_value = $loose_to_standard_value{"$prop=$loose_value"};
2377 return unless exists $prop_value_aliases{$prop}{$standard_value};
2379 # Here we did find a combination under loose matching rules. But it could
2380 # be that is a strict property match that shouldn't have matched.
2381 # %prop_value_aliases is set up so that the strict matches will appear as
2382 # if they were in loose form. Thus, if the non-loose version is legal,
2383 # we're ok, can skip the further check.
2384 if (! exists $utf8::stricter_to_file_of{"$prop=$value"}
2386 # We're also ok and skip the further check if value loosely matches.
2387 # mktables has verified that no strict name under loose rules maps to
2388 # an existing loose name. This code relies on the very limited
2389 # circumstances that strict names can be here. Strict name matching
2390 # happens under two conditions:
2391 # 1) when the name begins with an underscore. But this function
2392 # doesn't accept those, and %prop_value_aliases doesn't have
2394 # 2) When the values are numeric, in which case we need to look
2395 # further, but their squeezed-out loose values will be in
2396 # %stricter_to_file_of
2397 && exists $utf8::stricter_to_file_of{"$prop=$loose_value"})
2399 # The only thing that's legal loosely under strict is that can have an
2400 # underscore between digit pairs XXX
2401 while ($value =~ s/(\d)_(\d)/$1$2/g) {}
2402 return unless exists $utf8::stricter_to_file_of{"$prop=$value"};
2405 # Here, we know that the combination exists. Return it.
2406 my $list_ref = $prop_value_aliases{$prop}{$standard_value};
2407 if (@$list_ref > 1) {
2408 # The full name is in element 1.
2409 return $list_ref->[1] unless wantarray;
2411 return @{_dclone $list_ref};
2414 return $list_ref->[0] unless wantarray;
2416 # Only 1 element means that it repeats
2417 return ( $list_ref->[0], $list_ref->[0] );
2420 # All 1 bits is the largest possible UV.
2421 $Unicode::UCD::MAX_CP = ~0;
2425 =head2 B<prop_invlist()>
2427 C<prop_invlist> returns an inversion list (described below) that defines all the
2428 code points for the binary Unicode property (or "property=value" pair) given
2429 by the input parameter string:
2432 use Unicode::UCD 'prop_invlist';
2433 say join ", ", prop_invlist("Any");
2438 If the input is unknown C<undef> is returned in scalar context; an empty-list
2439 in list context. If the input is known, the number of elements in
2440 the list is returned if called in scalar context.
2442 L<perluniprops|perluniprops/Properties accessible through \p{} and \P{}> gives
2443 the list of properties that this function accepts, as well as all the possible
2444 forms for them (including with the optional "Is_" prefixes). (Except this
2445 function doesn't accept any Perl-internal properties, some of which are listed
2446 there.) This function uses the same loose or tighter matching rules for
2447 resolving the input property's name as is done for regular expressions. These
2448 are also specified in L<perluniprops|perluniprops/Properties accessible
2449 through \p{} and \P{}>. Examples of using the "property=value" form are:
2451 say join ", ", prop_invlist("Script=Shavian");
2456 say join ", ", prop_invlist("ASCII_Hex_Digit=No");
2459 0, 48, 58, 65, 71, 97, 103
2461 say join ", ", prop_invlist("ASCII_Hex_Digit=Yes");
2464 48, 58, 65, 71, 97, 103
2466 Inversion lists are a compact way of specifying Unicode property-value
2467 definitions. The 0th item in the list is the lowest code point that has the
2468 property-value. The next item (item [1]) is the lowest code point beyond that
2469 one that does NOT have the property-value. And the next item beyond that
2470 ([2]) is the lowest code point beyond that one that does have the
2471 property-value, and so on. Put another way, each element in the list gives
2472 the beginning of a range that has the property-value (for even numbered
2473 elements), or doesn't have the property-value (for odd numbered elements).
2474 The name for this data structure stems from the fact that each element in the
2475 list toggles (or inverts) whether the corresponding range is or isn't on the
2478 In the final example above, the first ASCII Hex digit is code point 48, the
2479 character "0", and all code points from it through 57 (a "9") are ASCII hex
2480 digits. Code points 58 through 64 aren't, but 65 (an "A") through 70 (an "F")
2481 are, as are 97 ("a") through 102 ("f"). 103 starts a range of code points
2482 that aren't ASCII hex digits. That range extends to infinity, which on your
2483 computer can be found in the variable C<$Unicode::UCD::MAX_CP>. (This
2484 variable is as close to infinity as Perl can get on your platform, and may be
2485 too high for some operations to work; you may wish to use a smaller number for
2488 Note that the inversion lists returned by this function can possibly include
2489 non-Unicode code points, that is anything above 0x10FFFF. Unicode properties
2490 are not defined on such code points. You might wish to change the output to
2491 not include these. Simply add 0x110000 at the end of the non-empty returned
2492 list if it isn't already that value; and pop that value if it is; like:
2494 my @list = prop_invlist("foo");
2496 if ($list[-1] == 0x110000) {
2497 pop @list; # Defeat the turning on for above Unicode
2500 push @list, 0x110000; # Turn off for above Unicode
2504 It is a simple matter to expand out an inversion list to a full list of all
2505 code points that have the property-value:
2507 my @invlist = prop_invlist($property_name);
2508 die "empty" unless @invlist;
2510 for (my $i = 0; $i < @invlist; $i += 2) {
2511 my $upper = ($i + 1) < @invlist
2512 ? $invlist[$i+1] - 1 # In range
2513 : $Unicode::UCD::MAX_CP; # To infinity. You may want
2514 # to stop much much earlier;
2515 # going this high may expose
2516 # perl deficiencies with very
2518 for my $j ($invlist[$i] .. $upper) {
2519 push @full_list, $j;
2523 C<prop_invlist> does not know about any user-defined nor Perl internal-only
2524 properties, and will return C<undef> if called with one of those.
2526 The L</search_invlist()> function is provided for finding a code point within
2531 # User-defined properties could be handled with some changes to utf8_heavy.pl;
2532 # and implementing here of dealing with EXTRAS. If done, consideration should
2533 # be given to the fact that the user subroutine could return different results
2534 # with each call; security issues need to be thought about.
2536 # These are created by mktables for this routine and stored in unicore/UCD.pl
2537 # where their structures are described.
2538 our %loose_defaults;
2539 our $MAX_UNICODE_CODEPOINT;
2541 sub prop_invlist ($;$) {
2544 # Undocumented way to get at Perl internal properties; it may be changed
2545 # or removed without notice at any time.
2546 my $internal_ok = defined $_[1] && $_[1] eq '_perl_core_internal_ok';
2548 return if ! defined $prop;
2550 require "utf8_heavy.pl";
2552 # Warnings for these are only for regexes, so not applicable to us
2553 no warnings 'deprecated';
2555 # Get the swash definition of the property-value.
2556 my $swash = utf8::SWASHNEW(__PACKAGE__, $prop, undef, 1, 0);
2558 # Fail if not found, or isn't a boolean property-value, or is a
2559 # user-defined property, or is internal-only.
2562 || $swash->{'BITS'} != 1
2563 || $swash->{'USER_DEFINED'}
2564 || (! $internal_ok && $prop =~ /^\s*_/);
2566 if ($swash->{'EXTRAS'}) {
2567 carp __PACKAGE__, "::prop_invlist: swash returned for $prop unexpectedly has EXTRAS magic";
2570 if ($swash->{'SPECIALS'}) {
2571 carp __PACKAGE__, "::prop_invlist: swash returned for $prop unexpectedly has SPECIALS magic";
2577 if ($swash->{'LIST'} =~ /^V/) {
2579 # A 'V' as the first character marks the input as already an inversion
2580 # list, in which case, all we need to do is put the remaining lines
2582 @invlist = split "\n", $swash->{'LIST'} =~ s/ \s* (?: \# .* )? $ //xmgr;
2586 # The input lines look like:
2590 # Split into lines, stripped of trailing comments
2591 foreach my $range (split "\n",
2592 $swash->{'LIST'} =~ s/ \s* (?: \# .* )? $ //xmgr)
2594 # And find the beginning and end of the range on the line
2595 my ($hex_begin, $hex_end) = split "\t", $range;
2596 my $begin = hex $hex_begin;
2598 # If the new range merely extends the old, we remove the marker
2599 # created the last time through the loop for the old's end, which
2600 # causes the new one's end to be used instead.
2601 if (@invlist && $begin == $invlist[-1]) {
2605 # Add the beginning of the range
2606 push @invlist, $begin;
2609 if (defined $hex_end) { # The next item starts with the code point 1
2610 # beyond the end of the range.
2611 no warnings 'portable';
2612 my $end = hex $hex_end;
2613 last if $end == $Unicode::UCD::MAX_CP;
2614 push @invlist, $end + 1;
2616 else { # No end of range, is a single code point.
2617 push @invlist, $begin + 1;
2622 # Could need to be inverted: add or subtract a 0 at the beginning of the
2624 if ($swash->{'INVERT_IT'}) {
2625 if (@invlist && $invlist[0] == 0) {
2629 unshift @invlist, 0;
2638 =head2 B<prop_invmap()>
2640 use Unicode::UCD 'prop_invmap';
2641 my ($list_ref, $map_ref, $format, $default)
2642 = prop_invmap("General Category");
2644 C<prop_invmap> is used to get the complete mapping definition for a property,
2645 in the form of an inversion map. An inversion map consists of two parallel
2646 arrays. One is an ordered list of code points that mark range beginnings, and
2647 the other gives the value (or mapping) that all code points in the
2648 corresponding range have.
2650 C<prop_invmap> is called with the name of the desired property. The name is
2651 loosely matched, meaning that differences in case, white-space, hyphens, and
2652 underscores are not meaningful (except for the trailing underscore in the
2653 old-form grandfathered-in property C<"L_">, which is better written as C<"LC">,
2654 or even better, C<"Gc=LC">).
2656 Many Unicode properties have more than one name (or alias). C<prop_invmap>
2657 understands all of these, including Perl extensions to them. Ambiguities are
2658 resolved as described above for L</prop_aliases()>. The Perl internal
2659 property "Perl_Decimal_Digit, described below, is also accepted. An empty
2660 list is returned if the property name is unknown.
2661 See L<perluniprops/Properties accessible through Unicode::UCD> for the
2662 properties acceptable as inputs to this function.
2664 It is a fatal error to call this function except in list context.
2666 In addition to the two arrays that form the inversion map, C<prop_invmap>
2667 returns two other values; one is a scalar that gives some details as to the
2668 format of the entries of the map array; the other is a default value, useful
2669 in maps whose format name begins with the letter C<"a">, as described
2670 L<below in its subsection|/a>; and for specialized purposes, such as
2671 converting to another data structure, described at the end of this main
2674 This means that C<prop_invmap> returns a 4 element list. For example,
2676 my ($blocks_ranges_ref, $blocks_maps_ref, $format, $default)
2677 = prop_invmap("Block");
2679 In this call, the two arrays will be populated as shown below (for Unicode
2682 Index @blocks_ranges @blocks_maps
2683 0 0x0000 Basic Latin
2684 1 0x0080 Latin-1 Supplement
2685 2 0x0100 Latin Extended-A
2686 3 0x0180 Latin Extended-B
2687 4 0x0250 IPA Extensions
2688 5 0x02B0 Spacing Modifier Letters
2689 6 0x0300 Combining Diacritical Marks
2690 7 0x0370 Greek and Coptic
2693 233 0x2B820 No_Block
2694 234 0x2F800 CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement
2695 235 0x2FA20 No_Block
2697 237 0xE0080 No_Block
2698 238 0xE0100 Variation Selectors Supplement
2699 239 0xE01F0 No_Block
2700 240 0xF0000 Supplementary Private Use Area-A
2701 241 0x100000 Supplementary Private Use Area-B
2702 242 0x110000 No_Block
2704 The first line (with Index [0]) means that the value for code point 0 is "Basic
2705 Latin". The entry "0x0080" in the @blocks_ranges column in the second line
2706 means that the value from the first line, "Basic Latin", extends to all code
2707 points in the range from 0 up to but not including 0x0080, that is, through
2708 127. In other words, the code points from 0 to 127 are all in the "Basic
2709 Latin" block. Similarly, all code points in the range from 0x0080 up to (but
2710 not including) 0x0100 are in the block named "Latin-1 Supplement", etc.
2711 (Notice that the return is the old-style block names; see L</Old-style versus
2712 new-style block names>).
2714 The final line (with Index [242]) means that the value for all code points above
2715 the legal Unicode maximum code point have the value "No_Block", which is the
2716 term Unicode uses for a non-existing block.
2718 The arrays completely specify the mappings for all possible code points.
2719 The final element in an inversion map returned by this function will always be
2720 for the range that consists of all the code points that aren't legal Unicode,
2721 but that are expressible on the platform. (That is, it starts with code point
2722 0x110000, the first code point above the legal Unicode maximum, and extends to
2723 infinity.) The value for that range will be the same that any typical
2724 unassigned code point has for the specified property. (Certain unassigned
2725 code points are not "typical"; for example the non-character code points, or
2726 those in blocks that are to be written right-to-left. The above-Unicode
2727 range's value is not based on these atypical code points.) It could be argued
2728 that, instead of treating these as unassigned Unicode code points, the value
2729 for this range should be C<undef>. If you wish, you can change the returned
2732 The maps for almost all properties are simple scalars that should be
2734 These values are those given in the Unicode-supplied data files, which may be
2735 inconsistent as to capitalization and as to which synonym for a property-value
2736 is given. The results may be normalized by using the L</prop_value_aliases()>
2739 There are exceptions to the simple scalar maps. Some properties have some
2740 elements in their map list that are themselves lists of scalars; and some
2741 special strings are returned that are not to be interpreted as-is. Element
2742 [2] (placed into C<$format> in the example above) of the returned four element
2743 list tells you if the map has any of these special elements or not, as follows:
2749 means all the elements of the map array are simple scalars, with no special
2750 elements. Almost all properties are like this, like the C<block> example
2755 means that some of the map array elements have the form given by C<"s">, and
2756 the rest are lists of scalars. For example, here is a portion of the output
2757 of calling C<prop_invmap>() with the "Script Extensions" property:
2759 @scripts_ranges @scripts_maps
2762 0x0964 [ Bengali, Devanagari, Gurumukhi, Oriya ]
2766 Here, the code points 0x964 and 0x965 are both used in Bengali,
2767 Devanagari, Gurmukhi, and Oriya, but no other scripts.
2769 The Name_Alias property is also of this form. But each scalar consists of two
2770 components: 1) the name, and 2) the type of alias this is. They are
2771 separated by a colon and a space. In Unicode 6.1, there are several alias types:
2777 indicates that the name is a corrected form for the
2778 original name (which remains valid) for the same code point.
2782 adds a new name for a control character.
2786 is an alternate name for a character
2790 is a name for a character that has been documented but was never in any
2793 =item C<abbreviation>
2795 is a common abbreviation for a character
2799 The lists are ordered (roughly) so the most preferred names come before less
2804 @aliases_ranges @alias_maps
2806 0x009E [ 'PRIVACY MESSAGE: control', 'PM: abbreviation' ]
2807 0x009F [ 'APPLICATION PROGRAM COMMAND: control',
2810 0x00A0 'NBSP: abbreviation'
2812 0x00AD 'SHY: abbreviation'
2814 0x01A2 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GHA: correction'
2815 0x01A3 'LATIN SMALL LETTER GHA: correction'
2819 A map to the empty string means that there is no alias defined for the code
2824 is like C<"s"> in that all the map array elements are scalars, but here they are
2825 restricted to all being integers, and some have to be adjusted (hence the name
2826 C<"a">) to get the correct result. For example, in:
2828 my ($uppers_ranges_ref, $uppers_maps_ref, $format, $default)
2829 = prop_invmap("Simple_Uppercase_Mapping");
2831 the returned arrays look like this:
2833 @$uppers_ranges_ref @$uppers_maps_ref Note
2835 97 65 'a' maps to 'A', b => B ...
2837 181 924 MICRO SIGN => Greek Cap MU
2841 and C<$default> is 0.
2843 Let's start with the second line. It says that the uppercase of code point 97
2844 is 65; or C<uc("a")> == "A". But the line is for the entire range of code
2845 points 97 through 122. To get the mapping for any code point in this range,
2846 you take the offset it has from the beginning code point of the range, and add
2847 that to the mapping for that first code point. So, the mapping for 122 ("z")
2848 is derived by taking the offset of 122 from 97 (=25) and adding that to 65,
2849 yielding 90 ("z"). Likewise for everything in between.
2851 Requiring this simple adjustment allows the returned arrays to be
2852 significantly smaller than otherwise, up to a factor of 10, speeding up
2853 searching through them.
2855 Ranges that map to C<$default>, C<"0">, behave somewhat differently. For
2856 these, each code point maps to itself. So, in the first line in the example,
2857 S<C<ord(uc(chr(0)))>> is 0, S<C<ord(uc(chr(1)))>> is 1, ..
2858 S<C<ord(uc(chr(96)))>> is 96.
2862 means that some of the map array elements have the form given by C<"a">, and
2863 the rest are ordered lists of code points.
2866 my ($uppers_ranges_ref, $uppers_maps_ref, $format, $default)
2867 = prop_invmap("Uppercase_Mapping");
2869 the returned arrays look like this:
2871 @$uppers_ranges_ref @$uppers_maps_ref
2878 0x0149 [ 0x02BC 0x004E ]
2883 This is the full Uppercase_Mapping property (as opposed to the
2884 Simple_Uppercase_Mapping given in the example for format C<"a">). The only
2885 difference between the two in the ranges shown is that the code point at
2886 0x0149 (LATIN SMALL LETTER N PRECEDED BY APOSTROPHE) maps to a string of two
2887 characters, 0x02BC (MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE) followed by 0x004E (LATIN
2890 No adjustments are needed to entries that are references to arrays; each such
2891 entry will have exactly one element in its range, so the offset is always 0.
2893 The fourth (index [3]) element (C<$default>) in the list returned for this
2898 This is like C<"a">, but some elements are the empty string, and should not be
2900 The one internal Perl property accessible by C<prop_invmap> is of this type:
2901 "Perl_Decimal_Digit" returns an inversion map which gives the numeric values
2902 that are represented by the Unicode decimal digit characters. Characters that
2903 don't represent decimal digits map to the empty string, like so:
2918 This means that the code points from 0 to 0x2F do not represent decimal digits;
2919 the code point 0x30 (DIGIT ZERO) represents 0; code point 0x31, (DIGIT ONE),
2920 represents 0+1-0 = 1; ... code point 0x39, (DIGIT NINE), represents 0+9-0 = 9;
2921 ... code points 0x3A through 0x65F do not represent decimal digits; 0x660
2922 (ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO), represents 0; ... 0x07C1 (NKO DIGIT ONE),
2923 represents 0+1-0 = 1 ...
2925 The fourth (index [3]) element (C<$default>) in the list returned for this
2926 format is the empty string.
2930 is a combination of the C<"al"> type and the C<"ae"> type. Some of
2931 the map array elements have the forms given by C<"al">, and
2932 the rest are the empty string. The property C<NFKC_Casefold> has this form.
2933 An example slice is:
2935 @$ranges_ref @$maps_ref Note
2937 0x00AA 97 FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR => 'a'
2939 0x00AD SOFT HYPHEN => ""
2941 0x00AF [ 0x0020, 0x0304 ] MACRON => SPACE . COMBINING MACRON
2945 The fourth (index [3]) element (C<$default>) in the list returned for this
2950 means that all the elements of the map array are either rational numbers or
2951 the string C<"NaN">, meaning "Not a Number". A rational number is either an
2952 integer, or two integers separated by a solidus (C<"/">). The second integer
2953 represents the denominator of the division implied by the solidus, and is
2954 actually always positive, so it is guaranteed not to be 0 and to not be
2955 signed. When the element is a plain integer (without the
2956 solidus), it may need to be adjusted to get the correct value by adding the
2957 offset, just as other C<"a"> properties. No adjustment is needed for
2958 fractions, as the range is guaranteed to have just a single element, and so
2959 the offset is always 0.
2961 If you want to convert the returned map to entirely scalar numbers, you
2962 can use something like this:
2964 my ($invlist_ref, $invmap_ref, $format) = prop_invmap($property);
2965 if ($format && $format eq "ar") {
2966 map { $_ = eval $_ if $_ ne 'NaN' } @$map_ref;
2969 Here's some entries from the output of the property "Nv", which has format
2972 @numerics_ranges @numerics_maps Note
2974 0x30 0 DIGIT 0 .. DIGIT 9
2976 0xB2 2 SUPERSCRIPTs 2 and 3
2978 0xB9 1 SUPERSCRIPT 1
2980 0xBC 1/4 VULGAR FRACTION 1/4
2981 0xBD 1/2 VULGAR FRACTION 1/2
2982 0xBE 3/4 VULGAR FRACTION 3/4
2984 0x660 0 ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO .. NINE
2987 The fourth (index [3]) element (C<$default>) in the list returned for this
2992 means the Name property. All the elements of the map array are simple
2993 scalars, but some of them contain special strings that require more work to
2994 get the actual name.
2998 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-<code point>
3000 mean that the name for the code point is "CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-"
3001 with the code point (expressed in hexadecimal) appended to it, like "CJK
3002 UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-3403" (similarly for S<C<CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-E<lt>code
3009 means that the name is algorithmically calculated. This is easily done by
3010 the function L<charnames/charnames::viacode(code)>.
3012 Note that for control characters (C<Gc=cc>), Unicode's data files have the
3013 string "C<E<lt>controlE<gt>>", but the real name of each of these characters is the empty
3014 string. This function returns that real name, the empty string. (There are
3015 names for these characters, but they are considered aliases, not the Name
3016 property name, and are contained in the C<Name_Alias> property.)
3020 means the Decomposition_Mapping property. This property is like C<"al">
3021 properties, except that one of the scalar elements is of the form:
3025 This signifies that this entry should be replaced by the decompositions for
3026 all the code points whose decomposition is algorithmically calculated. (All
3027 of them are currently in one range and no others outside the range are likely
3028 to ever be added to Unicode; the C<"n"> format
3029 has this same entry.) These can be generated via the function
3030 L<Unicode::Normalize::NFD()|Unicode::Normalize>.
3032 Note that the mapping is the one that is specified in the Unicode data files,
3033 and to get the final decomposition, it may need to be applied recursively.
3035 The fourth (index [3]) element (C<$default>) in the list returned for this
3040 Note that a format begins with the letter "a" if and only the property it is
3041 for requires adjustments by adding the offsets in multi-element ranges. For
3042 all these properties, an entry should be adjusted only if the map is a scalar
3043 which is an integer. That is, it must match the regular expression:
3047 Further, the first element in a range never needs adjustment, as the
3048 adjustment would be just adding 0.
3050 A binary search such as that provided by L</search_invlist()>, can be used to
3051 quickly find a code point in the inversion list, and hence its corresponding
3054 The final, fourth element (index [3], assigned to C<$default> in the "block"
3055 example) in the four element list returned by this function is used with the
3056 C<"a"> format types; it may also be useful for applications
3057 that wish to convert the returned inversion map data structure into some
3058 other, such as a hash. It gives the mapping that most code points map to
3059 under the property. If you establish the convention that any code point not
3060 explicitly listed in your data structure maps to this value, you can
3061 potentially make your data structure much smaller. As you construct your data
3062 structure from the one returned by this function, simply ignore those ranges
3063 that map to this value. For example, to
3064 convert to the data structure searchable by L</charinrange()>, you can follow
3065 this recipe for properties that don't require adjustments:
3067 my ($list_ref, $map_ref, $format, $default) = prop_invmap($property);
3070 # Look at each element in the list, but the -2 is needed because we
3071 # look at $i+1 in the loop, and the final element is guaranteed to map
3072 # to $default by prop_invmap(), so we would skip it anyway.
3073 for my $i (0 .. @$list_ref - 2) {
3074 next if $map_ref->[$i] eq $default;
3075 push @range_list, [ $list_ref->[$i],
3081 print charinrange(\@range_list, $code_point), "\n";
3083 With this, C<charinrange()> will return C<undef> if its input code point maps
3084 to C<$default>. You can avoid this by omitting the C<next> statement, and adding
3085 a line after the loop to handle the final element of the inversion map.
3087 Similarly, this recipe can be used for properties that do require adjustments:
3089 for my $i (0 .. @$list_ref - 2) {
3090 next if $map_ref->[$i] eq $default;
3092 # prop_invmap() guarantees that if the mapping is to an array, the
3093 # range has just one element, so no need to worry about adjustments.
3094 if (ref $map_ref->[$i]) {
3096 [ $list_ref->[$i], $list_ref->[$i], $map_ref->[$i] ];
3098 else { # Otherwise each element is actually mapped to a separate
3099 # value, so the range has to be split into single code point
3104 # For each code point that gets mapped to something...
3105 for my $j ($list_ref->[$i] .. $list_ref->[$i+1] -1 ) {
3107 # ... add a range consisting of just it mapping to the
3108 # original plus the adjustment, which is incremented for the
3109 # next time through the loop, as the offset increases by 1
3110 # for each element in the range
3112 [ $j, $j, $map_ref->[$i] + $adjustment++ ];
3117 Note that the inversion maps returned for the C<Case_Folding> and
3118 C<Simple_Case_Folding> properties do not include the Turkic-locale mappings.
3119 Use L</casefold()> for these.
3121 C<prop_invmap> does not know about any user-defined properties, and will
3122 return C<undef> if called with one of those.
3124 The returned values for the Perl extension properties, such as C<Any> and
3125 C<Greek> are somewhat misleading. The values are either C<"Y"> or C<"N>".
3126 All Unicode properties are bipartite, so you can actually use the C<"Y"> or
3127 C<"N>" in a Perl regular rexpression for these, like C<qr/\p{ID_Start=Y/}> or
3128 C<qr/\p{Upper=N/}>. But the Perl extensions aren't specified this way, only
3129 like C</qr/\p{Any}>, I<etc>. You can't actually use the C<"Y"> and C<"N>" in
3134 # User-defined properties could be handled with some changes to utf8_heavy.pl;
3135 # if done, consideration should be given to the fact that the user subroutine
3136 # could return different results with each call, which could lead to some
3139 # One could store things in memory so they don't have to be recalculated, but
3140 # it is unlikely this will be called often, and some properties would take up
3141 # significant memory.
3143 # These are created by mktables for this routine and stored in unicore/UCD.pl
3144 # where their structures are described.
3145 our @algorithmic_named_code_points;
3149 sub prop_invmap ($;$) {
3151 croak __PACKAGE__, "::prop_invmap: must be called in list context" unless wantarray;
3154 return unless defined $prop;
3156 # Undocumented way to get at Perl internal properties; it may be changed
3157 # or removed without notice at any time. It currently also changes the
3158 # output to use the format specified in the file rather than the one we
3159 # normally compute and return
3160 my $internal_ok = defined $_[1] && $_[1] eq '_perl_core_internal_ok';
3162 # Fail internal properties
3163 return if $prop =~ /^_/ && ! $internal_ok;
3165 # The values returned by this function.
3166 my (@invlist, @invmap, $format, $missing);
3168 # The swash has two components we look at, the base list, and a hash,
3169 # named 'SPECIALS', containing any additional members whose mappings don't
3170 # fit into the base list scheme of things. These generally 'override'
3171 # any value in the base list for the same code point.
3174 require "utf8_heavy.pl";
3175 require "unicore/UCD.pl";
3179 # If there are multiple entries for a single code point
3180 my $has_multiples = 0;
3182 # Try to get the map swash for the property. They have 'To' prepended to
3183 # the property name, and 32 means we will accept 32 bit return values.
3184 # The 0 means we aren't calling this from tr///.
3185 my $swash = utf8::SWASHNEW(__PACKAGE__, "To$prop", undef, 32, 0);
3187 # If didn't find it, could be because needs a proxy. And if was the
3188 # 'Block' or 'Name' property, use a proxy even if did find it. Finding it
3189 # in these cases would be the result of the installation changing mktables
3190 # to output the Block or Name tables. The Block table gives block names
3191 # in the new-style, and this routine is supposed to return old-style block
3192 # names. The Name table is valid, but we need to execute the special code
3193 # below to add in the algorithmic-defined name entries.
3194 # And NFKCCF needs conversion, so handle that here too.
3195 if (ref $swash eq ""
3196 || $swash->{'TYPE'} =~ / ^ To (?: Blk | Na | NFKCCF ) $ /x)
3199 # Get the short name of the input property, in standard form
3200 my ($second_try) = prop_aliases($prop);
3201 return unless $second_try;
3202 $second_try = utf8::_loose_name(lc $second_try);
3204 if ($second_try eq "in") {
3206 # This property is identical to age for inversion map purposes
3210 elsif ($second_try =~ / ^ s ( cf | fc | [ltu] c ) $ /x) {
3212 # These properties use just the LIST part of the full mapping,
3213 # which includes the simple maps that are otherwise overridden by
3214 # the SPECIALS. So all we need do is to not look at the SPECIALS;
3215 # set $overrides to indicate that
3218 # The full name is the simple name stripped of its initial 's'
3221 # .. except for this case
3222 $prop = 'cf' if $prop eq 'fc';
3226 elsif ($second_try eq "blk") {
3228 # We use the old block names. Just create a fake swash from its
3232 $blocks{'LIST'} = "";
3233 $blocks{'TYPE'} = "ToBlk";
3234 $utf8::SwashInfo{ToBlk}{'missing'} = "No_Block";
3235 $utf8::SwashInfo{ToBlk}{'format'} = "s";
3237 foreach my $block (@BLOCKS) {
3238 $blocks{'LIST'} .= sprintf "%x\t%x\t%s\n",
3245 elsif ($second_try eq "na") {
3247 # Use the combo file that has all the Name-type properties in it,
3248 # extracting just the ones that are for the actual 'Name'
3249 # property. And create a fake swash from it.
3251 $names{'LIST'} = "";
3252 my $original = do "unicore/Name.pl";
3253 my $algorithm_names = \@algorithmic_named_code_points;
3255 # We need to remove the names from it that are aliases. For that
3256 # we need to also read in that table. Create a hash with the keys
3257 # being the code points, and the values being a list of the
3258 # aliases for the code point key.
3259 my ($aliases_code_points, $aliases_maps, undef, undef) =
3260 &prop_invmap('Name_Alias');
3262 for (my $i = 0; $i < @$aliases_code_points; $i++) {
3263 my $code_point = $aliases_code_points->[$i];
3264 $aliases{$code_point} = $aliases_maps->[$i];
3266 # If not already a list, make it into one, so that later we
3267 # can treat things uniformly
3268 if (! ref $aliases{$code_point}) {
3269 $aliases{$code_point} = [ $aliases{$code_point} ];
3272 # Remove the alias type from the entry, retaining just the
3274 map { s/:.*// } @{$aliases{$code_point}};
3278 foreach my $line (split "\n", $original) {
3279 my ($hex_code_point, $name) = split "\t", $line;
3281 # Weeds out all comments, blank lines, and named sequences
3282 next if $hex_code_point =~ /[^[:xdigit:]]/a;
3284 my $code_point = hex $hex_code_point;
3286 # The name of all controls is the default: the empty string.
3287 # The set of controls is immutable
3288 next if chr($code_point) =~ /[[:cntrl:]]/u;
3290 # If this is a name_alias, it isn't a name
3291 next if grep { $_ eq $name } @{$aliases{$code_point}};
3293 # If we are beyond where one of the special lines needs to
3295 while ($i < @$algorithm_names
3296 && $code_point > $algorithm_names->[$i]->{'low'})
3299 # ... then insert it, ahead of what we were about to
3301 $names{'LIST'} .= sprintf "%x\t%x\t%s\n",
3302 $algorithm_names->[$i]->{'low'},
3303 $algorithm_names->[$i]->{'high'},
3304 $algorithm_names->[$i]->{'name'};
3306 # Done with this range.
3309 # We loop until all special lines that precede the next
3310 # regular one are output.
3313 # Here, is a normal name.
3314 $names{'LIST'} .= sprintf "%x\t\t%s\n", $code_point, $name;
3315 } # End of loop through all the names
3317 $names{'TYPE'} = "ToNa";
3318 $utf8::SwashInfo{ToNa}{'missing'} = "";
3319 $utf8::SwashInfo{ToNa}{'format'} = "n";
3322 elsif ($second_try =~ / ^ ( d [mt] ) $ /x) {
3324 # The file is a combination of dt and dm properties. Create a
3325 # fake swash from the portion that we want.
3326 my $original = do "unicore/Decomposition.pl";
3329 if ($second_try eq 'dt') {
3330 $decomps{'TYPE'} = "ToDt";
3331 $utf8::SwashInfo{'ToDt'}{'missing'} = "None";
3332 $utf8::SwashInfo{'ToDt'}{'format'} = "s";
3333 } # 'dm' is handled below, with 'nfkccf'
3335 $decomps{'LIST'} = "";
3337 # This property has one special range not in the file: for the
3338 # hangul syllables. But not in Unicode version 1.
3339 UnicodeVersion() unless defined $v_unicode_version;
3340 my $done_hangul = ($v_unicode_version lt v2.0.0)
3342 : 0; # Have we done the hangul range ?
3343 foreach my $line (split "\n", $original) {
3344 my ($hex_lower, $hex_upper, $type_and_map) = split "\t", $line;
3345 my $code_point = hex $hex_lower;
3349 # The type, enclosed in <...>, precedes the mapping separated
3351 if ($type_and_map =~ / ^ < ( .* ) > \s+ (.*) $ /x) {
3352 $value = ($second_try eq 'dt') ? $1 : $2
3354 else { # If there is no type specified, it's canonical
3355 $value = ($second_try eq 'dt')
3360 # Insert the hangul range at the appropriate spot.
3361 if (! $done_hangul && $code_point > $HANGUL_BEGIN) {
3364 sprintf "%x\t%x\t%s\n",
3366 $HANGUL_BEGIN + $HANGUL_COUNT - 1,
3367 ($second_try eq 'dt')
3369 : "<hangul syllable>";
3372 if ($value =~ / / && $hex_upper ne "" && $hex_upper ne $hex_lower) {
3373 $line = sprintf("%04X\t%s\t%s", hex($hex_lower) + 1, $hex_upper, $value);
3378 # And append this to our constructed LIST.
3379 $decomps{'LIST'} .= "$hex_lower\t$hex_upper\t$value\n";
3385 elsif ($second_try ne 'nfkccf') { # Don't know this property. Fail.
3389 if ($second_try eq 'nfkccf' || $second_try eq 'dm') {
3391 # The 'nfkccf' property is stored in the old format for backwards
3392 # compatibility for any applications that has read its file
3393 # directly before prop_invmap() existed.
3394 # And the code above has extracted the 'dm' property from its file
3395 # yielding the same format. So here we convert them to adjusted
3396 # format for compatibility with the other properties similar to
3400 # We construct a new converted list.
3403 my @ranges = split "\n", $swash->{'LIST'};
3404 for (my $i = 0; $i < @ranges; $i++) {
3405 my ($hex_begin, $hex_end, $map) = split "\t", $ranges[$i];
3407 # The dm property has maps that are space separated sequences
3408 # of code points, as well as the special entry "<hangul
3409 # syllable>, which also contains a blank.
3410 my @map = split " ", $map;
3413 # If it's just the special entry, append as-is.
3414 if ($map eq '<hangul syllable>') {
3415 $list .= "$ranges[$i]\n";
3419 # These should all be single-element ranges.
3420 croak __PACKAGE__, "::prop_invmap: Not expecting a mapping with multiple code points in a multi-element range, $ranges[$i]" if $hex_end ne "" && $hex_end ne $hex_begin;
3422 # Convert them to decimal, as that's what's expected.
3423 $list .= "$hex_begin\t\t"
3424 . join(" ", map { hex } @map)
3430 # Here, the mapping doesn't have a blank, is for a single code
3432 my $begin = hex $hex_begin;
3433 my $end = (defined $hex_end && $hex_end ne "")
3437 # Again, the output is to be in decimal.
3438 my $decimal_map = hex $map;
3440 # We know that multi-element ranges with the same mapping
3441 # should not be adjusted, as after the adjustment
3442 # multi-element ranges are for consecutive increasing code
3443 # points. Further, the final element in the list won't be
3444 # adjusted, as there is nothing after it to include in the
3446 if ($begin != $end || $i == @ranges -1) {
3448 # So just convert these to single-element ranges
3449 foreach my $code_point ($begin .. $end) {
3450 $list .= sprintf("%04X\t\t%d\n",
3451 $code_point, $decimal_map);
3456 # Here, we have a candidate for adjusting. What we do is
3457 # look through the subsequent adjacent elements in the
3458 # input. If the map to the next one differs by 1 from the
3459 # one before, then we combine into a larger range with the
3460 # initial map. Loop doing this until we find one that
3461 # can't be combined.
3463 my $offset = 0; # How far away are we from the initial
3465 my $squished = 0; # ? Did we squish at least two
3466 # elements together into one range
3467 for ( ; $i < @ranges; $i++) {
3468 my ($next_hex_begin, $next_hex_end, $next_map)
3469 = split "\t", $ranges[$i+1];
3471 # In the case of 'dm', the map may be a sequence of
3472 # multiple code points, which are never combined with
3474 last if $next_map =~ / /;
3477 my $next_decimal_map = hex $next_map;
3479 # If the next map is not next in sequence, it
3480 # shouldn't be combined.
3481 last if $next_decimal_map != $decimal_map + $offset;
3483 my $next_begin = hex $next_hex_begin;
3485 # Likewise, if the next element isn't adjacent to the
3486 # previous one, it shouldn't be combined.
3487 last if $next_begin != $begin + $offset;
3489 my $next_end = (defined $next_hex_end
3490 && $next_hex_end ne "")
3494 # And finally, if the next element is a multi-element
3495 # range, it shouldn't be combined.
3496 last if $next_end != $next_begin;
3498 # Here, we will combine. Loop to see if we should
3499 # combine the next element too.
3505 # Here, 'i' is the element number of the last element to
3506 # be combined, and the range is single-element, or we
3507 # wouldn't be combining. Get it's code point.
3508 my ($hex_end, undef, undef) = split "\t", $ranges[$i];
3509 $list .= "$hex_begin\t$hex_end\t$decimal_map\n";
3512 # Here, no combining done. Just append the initial
3513 # (and current) values.
3514 $list .= "$hex_begin\t\t$decimal_map\n";
3517 } # End of loop constructing the converted list
3519 # Finish up the data structure for our converted swash
3520 my $type = ($second_try eq 'nfkccf') ? 'ToNFKCCF' : 'ToDm';
3521 $revised_swash{'LIST'} = $list;
3522 $revised_swash{'TYPE'} = $type;
3523 $revised_swash{'SPECIALS'} = $swash->{'SPECIALS'};
3524 $swash = \%revised_swash;
3526 $utf8::SwashInfo{$type}{'missing'} = 0;
3527 $utf8::SwashInfo{$type}{'format'} = 'a';
3531 if ($swash->{'EXTRAS'}) {
3532 carp __PACKAGE__, "::prop_invmap: swash returned for $prop unexpectedly has EXTRAS magic";
3536 # Here, have a valid swash return. Examine it.
3537 my $returned_prop = $swash->{'TYPE'};
3539 # All properties but binary ones should have 'missing' and 'format'
3541 $missing = $utf8::SwashInfo{$returned_prop}{'missing'};
3542 $missing = 'N' unless defined $missing;
3544 $format = $utf8::SwashInfo{$returned_prop}{'format'};
3545 $format = 'b' unless defined $format;
3547 my $requires_adjustment = $format =~ /^a/;
3549 if ($swash->{'LIST'} =~ /^V/) {
3550 @invlist = split "\n", $swash->{'LIST'} =~ s/ \s* (?: \# .* )? $ //xmgr;
3552 shift @invlist; # Get rid of 'V';
3554 # Could need to be inverted: add or subtract a 0 at the beginning of
3556 if ($swash->{'INVERT_IT'}) {
3557 if (@invlist && $invlist[0] == 0) {
3561 unshift @invlist, 0;
3564 foreach my $i (0 .. @invlist - 1) {
3565 $invmap[$i] = ($i % 2 == 0) ? 'Y' : 'N'
3568 # The map includes lines for all code points; add one for the range
3569 # from 0 to the first Y.
3570 if ($invlist[0] != 0) {
3571 unshift @invlist, 0;
3572 unshift @invmap, 'N';
3576 if ($swash->{'INVERT_IT'}) {
3577 croak __PACKAGE__, ":prop_invmap: Don't know how to deal with inverted";
3580 # The LIST input lines look like:
3583 # 0375\t0377\tGreek # [3]
3584 # 037A\t037D\tGreek # [4]
3589 # Convert them to like
3598 # For binary properties, the final non-comment column is absent, and
3599 # assumed to be 'Y'.
3601 foreach my $range (split "\n", $swash->{'LIST'}) {
3602 $range =~ s/ \s* (?: \# .* )? $ //xg; # rmv trailing space, comments
3604 # Find the beginning and end of the range on the line
3605 my ($hex_begin, $hex_end, $map) = split "\t", $range;
3606 my $begin = hex $hex_begin;
3607 no warnings 'portable';
3608 my $end = (defined $hex_end && $hex_end ne "")
3612 # Each time through the loop (after the first):
3613 # $invlist[-2] contains the beginning of the previous range processed
3614 # $invlist[-1] contains the end+1 of the previous range processed
3615 # $invmap[-2] contains the value of the previous range processed
3616 # $invmap[-1] contains the default value for missing ranges
3619 # Thus, things are set up for the typical case of a new
3620 # non-adjacent range of non-missings to be added. But, if the new
3621 # range is adjacent, it needs to replace the [-1] element; and if
3622 # the new range is a multiple value of the previous one, it needs
3623 # to be added to the [-2] map element.
3625 # The first time through, everything will be empty. If the
3626 # property doesn't have a range that begins at 0, add one that
3631 push @invmap, $missing;
3634 elsif (@invlist > 1 && $invlist[-2] == $begin) {
3636 # Here we handle the case where the input has multiple entries
3637 # for each code point. mktables should have made sure that
3638 # each such range contains only one code point. At this
3639 # point, $invlist[-1] is the $missing that was added at the
3640 # end of the last loop iteration, and [-2] is the last real
3641 # input code point, and that code point is the same as the one
3642 # we are adding now, making the new one a multiple entry. Add
3643 # it to the existing entry, either by pushing it to the
3644 # existing list of multiple entries, or converting the single
3645 # current entry into a list with both on it. This is all we
3646 # need do for this iteration.
3648 if ($end != $begin) {
3649 croak __PACKAGE__, ":prop_invmap: Multiple maps per code point in '$prop' require single-element ranges: begin=$begin, end=$end, map=$map";
3651 if (! ref $invmap[-2]) {
3652 $invmap[-2] = [ $invmap[-2], $map ];
3655 push @{$invmap[-2]}, $map;
3660 elsif ($invlist[-1] == $begin) {
3662 # If the input isn't in the most compact form, so that there
3663 # are two adjacent ranges that map to the same thing, they
3664 # should be combined (EXCEPT where the arrays require
3665 # adjustments, in which case everything is already set up
3666 # correctly). This happens in our constructed dt mapping, as
3667 # Element [-2] is the map for the latest range so far
3668 # processed. Just set the beginning point of the map to
3669 # $missing (in invlist[-1]) to 1 beyond where this range ends.
3673 # we have set it up so that it looks like
3677 # We now see that it should be
3680 if (! $requires_adjustment && @invlist > 1 && ( (defined $map)
3681 ? $invmap[-2] eq $map
3682 : $invmap[-2] eq 'Y'))
3684 $invlist[-1] = $end + 1;
3688 # Here, the range started in the previous iteration that maps
3689 # to $missing starts at the same code point as this range.
3690 # That means there is no gap to fill that that range was
3691 # intended for, so we just pop it off the parallel arrays.
3696 # Add the range beginning, and the range's map.
3697 push @invlist, $begin;
3698 if ($returned_prop eq 'ToDm') {
3700 # The decomposition maps are either a line like <hangul
3701 # syllable> which are to be taken as is; or a sequence of code
3702 # points in hex and separated by blanks. Convert them to
3703 # decimal, and if there is more than one, use an anonymous
3705 if ($map =~ /^ < /x) {
3709 my @map = split " ", $map;
3711 push @invmap, $map[0];
3714 push @invmap, \@map;
3720 # Otherwise, convert hex formatted list entries to decimal;
3721 # add a 'Y' map for the missing value in binary properties, or
3722 # otherwise, use the input map unchanged.
3723 $map = ($format eq 'x' || $format eq 'ax')
3731 # We just started a range. It ends with $end. The gap between it
3732 # and the next element in the list must be filled with a range
3733 # that maps to the default value. If there is no gap, the next
3734 # iteration will pop this, unless there is no next iteration, and
3735 # we have filled all of the Unicode code space, so check for that
3737 if ($end < $Unicode::UCD::MAX_CP) {
3738 push @invlist, $end + 1;
3739 push @invmap, $missing;
3744 # If the property is empty, make all code points use the value for missing
3748 push @invmap, $missing;
3751 # The final element is always for just the above-Unicode code points. If
3752 # not already there, add it. It merely splits the current final range
3753 # that extends to infinity into two elements, each with the same map.
3754 # (This is to conform with the API that says the final element is for
3755 # $MAX_UNICODE_CODEPOINT + 1 .. INFINITY.)
3756 if ($invlist[-1] != $MAX_UNICODE_CODEPOINT + 1) {
3757 push @invmap, $invmap[-1];
3758 push @invlist, $MAX_UNICODE_CODEPOINT + 1;
3761 # The second component of the map are those values that require
3762 # non-standard specification, stored in SPECIALS. These override any
3763 # duplicate code points in LIST. If we are using a proxy, we may have
3764 # already set $overrides based on the proxy.
3765 $overrides = $swash->{'SPECIALS'} unless defined $overrides;
3768 # A negative $overrides implies that the SPECIALS should be ignored,
3769 # and a simple 'a' list is the value.
3770 if ($overrides < 0) {
3775 # Currently, all overrides are for properties that normally map to
3776 # single code points, but now some will map to lists of code
3777 # points (but there is an exception case handled below).
3780 # Look through the overrides.
3781 foreach my $cp_maybe_utf8 (keys %$overrides) {
3785 # If the overrides came from SPECIALS, the code point keys are
3787 if ($overrides == $swash->{'SPECIALS'}) {
3788 $cp = $cp_maybe_utf8;
3789 if (! utf8::decode($cp)) {
3790 croak __PACKAGE__, "::prop_invmap: Malformed UTF-8: ",
3791 map { sprintf("\\x{%02X}", unpack("C", $_)) }
3795 $cp = unpack("W", $cp);
3796 @map = unpack "W*", $swash->{'SPECIALS'}{$cp_maybe_utf8};
3798 # The empty string will show up unpacked as an empty
3800 $format = 'ale' if @map == 0;
3804 # But if we generated the overrides, we didn't bother to
3805 # pack them, and we, so far, do this only for properties
3806 # that are 'a' ones.
3807 $cp = $cp_maybe_utf8;
3808 @map = hex $overrides->{$cp};
3812 # Find the range that the override applies to.
3813 my $i = search_invlist(\@invlist, $cp);
3814 if ($cp < $invlist[$i] || $cp >= $invlist[$i + 1]) {
3815 croak __PACKAGE__, "::prop_invmap: wrong_range, cp=$cp; i=$i, current=$invlist[$i]; next=$invlist[$i + 1]"
3818 # And what that range currently maps to
3819 my $cur_map = $invmap[$i];
3821 # If there is a gap between the next range and the code point
3822 # we are overriding, we have to add elements to both arrays to
3823 # fill that gap, using the map that applies to it, which is
3824 # $cur_map, since it is part of the current range.
3825 if ($invlist[$i + 1] > $cp + 1) {
3827 #say "Before splice:";
3828 #say 'i-2=[', $i-2, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i-2], $invmap[$i-2]) if $i >= 2;
3829 #say 'i-1=[', $i-1, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i-1], $invmap[$i-1]) if $i >= 1;
3830 #say 'i =[', $i, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i], $invmap[$i]);
3831 #say 'i+1=[', $i+1, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i+1], $invmap[$i+1]) if $i < @invlist + 1;
3832 #say 'i+2=[', $i+2, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i+2], $invmap[$i+2]) if $i < @invlist + 2;
3834 splice @invlist, $i + 1, 0, $cp + 1;
3835 splice @invmap, $i + 1, 0, $cur_map;
3837 #say "After splice:";
3838 #say 'i-2=[', $i-2, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i-2], $invmap[$i-2]) if $i >= 2;
3839 #say 'i-1=[', $i-1, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i-1], $invmap[$i-1]) if $i >= 1;
3840 #say 'i =[', $i, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i], $invmap[$i]);
3841 #say 'i+1=[', $i+1, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i+1], $invmap[$i+1]) if $i < @invlist + 1;
3842 #say 'i+2=[', $i+2, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i+2], $invmap[$i+2]) if $i < @invlist + 2;
3845 # If the remaining portion of the range is multiple code
3846 # points (ending with the one we are replacing, guaranteed by
3847 # the earlier splice). We must split it into two
3848 if ($invlist[$i] < $cp) {
3849 $i++; # Compensate for the new element
3852 #say "Before splice:";
3853 #say 'i-2=[', $i-2, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i-2], $invmap[$i-2]) if $i >= 2;
3854 #say 'i-1=[', $i-1, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i-1], $invmap[$i-1]) if $i >= 1;
3855 #say 'i =[', $i, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i], $invmap[$i]);
3856 #say 'i+1=[', $i+1, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i+1], $invmap[$i+1]) if $i < @invlist + 1;
3857 #say 'i+2=[', $i+2, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i+2], $invmap[$i+2]) if $i < @invlist + 2;
3859 splice @invlist, $i, 0, $cp;
3860 splice @invmap, $i, 0, 'dummy';
3862 #say "After splice:";
3863 #say 'i-2=[', $i-2, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i-2], $invmap[$i-2]) if $i >= 2;
3864 #say 'i-1=[', $i-1, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i-1], $invmap[$i-1]) if $i >= 1;
3865 #say 'i =[', $i, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i], $invmap[$i]);
3866 #say 'i+1=[', $i+1, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i+1], $invmap[$i+1]) if $i < @invlist + 1;
3867 #say 'i+2=[', $i+2, ']', sprintf("%04X maps to %s", $invlist[$i+2], $invmap[$i+2]) if $i < @invlist + 2;
3870 # Here, the range we are overriding contains a single code
3871 # point. The result could be the empty string, a single
3872 # value, or a list. If the last case, we use an anonymous
3874 $invmap[$i] = (scalar @map == 0)
3882 elsif ($format eq 'x') {
3884 # All hex-valued properties are really to code points, and have been
3885 # converted to decimal.
3888 elsif ($returned_prop eq 'ToDm') {
3891 elsif ($format eq 'sw') { # blank-separated elements to form a list.
3892 map { $_ = [ split " ", $_ ] if $_ =~ / / } @invmap;
3895 elsif ($returned_prop eq 'ToNameAlias') {
3897 # This property currently doesn't have any lists, but theoretically
3901 elsif ($returned_prop eq 'ToPerlDecimalDigit') {
3904 elsif ($returned_prop eq 'ToNv') {
3906 # The one property that has this format is stored as a delta, so needs
3907 # to indicate that need to add code point to it.
3910 elsif ($format eq 'ax') {
3912 # Normally 'ax' properties have overrides, and will have been handled
3913 # above, but if not, they still need adjustment, and the hex values
3914 # have already been converted to decimal
3917 elsif ($format ne 'n' && $format !~ / ^ a /x) {
3919 # All others are simple scalars
3922 if ($has_multiples && $format !~ /l/) {
3923 croak __PACKAGE__, "::prop_invmap: Wrong format '$format' for prop_invmap('$prop'); should indicate has lists";
3926 return (\@invlist, \@invmap, $format, $missing);
3929 sub search_invlist {
3933 =head2 B<search_invlist()>
3935 use Unicode::UCD qw(prop_invmap prop_invlist);
3936 use Unicode::UCD 'search_invlist';
3938 my @invlist = prop_invlist($property_name);
3939 print $code_point, ((search_invlist(\@invlist, $code_point) // -1) % 2)
3942 " in $property_name\n";
3944 my ($blocks_ranges_ref, $blocks_map_ref) = prop_invmap("Block");
3945 my $index = search_invlist($blocks_ranges_ref, $code_point);
3946 print "$code_point is in block ", $blocks_map_ref->[$index], "\n";
3948 C<search_invlist> is used to search an inversion list returned by
3949 C<prop_invlist> or C<prop_invmap> for a particular L</code point argument>.
3950 C<undef> is returned if the code point is not found in the inversion list
3951 (this happens only when it is not a legal L<code point argument>, or is less
3952 than the list's first element). A warning is raised in the first instance.
3954 Otherwise, it returns the index into the list of the range that contains the
3955 code point.; that is, find C<i> such that
3957 list[i]<= code_point < list[i+1].
3959 As explained in L</prop_invlist()>, whether a code point is in the list or not
3960 depends on if the index is even (in) or odd (not in). And as explained in
3961 L</prop_invmap()>, the index is used with the returned parallel array to find
3967 my $list_ref = shift;
3968 my $input_code_point = shift;
3969 my $code_point = _getcode($input_code_point);
3971 if (! defined $code_point) {
3972 carp __PACKAGE__, "::search_invlist: unknown code '$input_code_point'";
3976 my $max_element = @$list_ref - 1;
3978 # Return undef if list is empty or requested item is before the first element.
3979 return if $max_element < 0;
3980 return if $code_point < $list_ref->[0];
3982 # Short cut something at the far-end of the table. This also allows us to
3983 # refer to element [$i+1] without fear of being out-of-bounds in the loop
3985 return $max_element if $code_point >= $list_ref->[$max_element];
3987 use integer; # want integer division
3989 my $i = $max_element / 2;
3992 my $upper = $max_element;
3995 if ($code_point >= $list_ref->[$i]) {
3997 # Here we have met the lower constraint. We can quit if we
3998 # also meet the upper one.
3999 last if $code_point < $list_ref->[$i+1];
4001 $lower = $i; # Still too low.
4006 # Here, $code_point < $list_ref[$i], so look lower down.
4010 # Split search domain in half to try again.
4011 my $temp = ($upper + $lower) / 2;
4013 # No point in continuing unless $i changes for next time
4015 return $i if $temp == $i;
4017 } # End of while loop
4019 # Here we have found the offset
4023 =head2 Unicode::UCD::UnicodeVersion
4025 This returns the version of the Unicode Character Database, in other words, the
4026 version of the Unicode standard the database implements. The version is a
4027 string of numbers delimited by dots (C<'.'>).
4033 sub UnicodeVersion {
4034 unless (defined $UNICODEVERSION) {
4035 openunicode(\$VERSIONFH, "version");
4037 chomp($UNICODEVERSION = <$VERSIONFH>);
4039 croak __PACKAGE__, "::VERSION: strange version '$UNICODEVERSION'"
4040 unless $UNICODEVERSION =~ /^\d+(?:\.\d+)+$/;
4042 $v_unicode_version = pack "C*", split /\./, $UNICODEVERSION;
4043 return $UNICODEVERSION;
4046 =head2 B<Blocks versus Scripts>
4048 The difference between a block and a script is that scripts are closer
4049 to the linguistic notion of a set of code points required to represent
4050 languages, while block is more of an artifact of the Unicode code point
4051 numbering and separation into blocks of consecutive code points (so far the
4052 size of a block is some multiple of 16, like 128 or 256).
4054 For example the Latin B<script> is spread over several B<blocks>, such
4055 as C<Basic Latin>, C<Latin 1 Supplement>, C<Latin Extended-A>, and
4056 C<Latin Extended-B>. On the other hand, the Latin script does not
4057 contain all the characters of the C<Basic Latin> block (also known as
4058 ASCII): it includes only the letters, and not, for example, the digits
4059 nor the punctuation.
4061 For blocks see L<http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Blocks.txt>
4063 For scripts see UTR #24: L<http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr24/>
4065 =head2 B<Matching Scripts and Blocks>
4067 Scripts are matched with the regular-expression construct
4068 C<\p{...}> (e.g. C<\p{Tibetan}> matches characters of the Tibetan script),
4069 while C<\p{Blk=...}> is used for blocks (e.g. C<\p{Blk=Tibetan}> matches
4070 any of the 256 code points in the Tibetan block).
4072 =head2 Old-style versus new-style block names
4074 Unicode publishes the names of blocks in two different styles, though the two
4075 are equivalent under Unicode's loose matching rules.
4077 The original style uses blanks and hyphens in the block names (except for
4078 C<No_Block>), like so:
4080 Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
4082 The newer style replaces these with underscores, like this:
4084 Miscellaneous_Mathematical_Symbols_B
4086 This newer style is consistent with the values of other Unicode properties.
4087 To preserve backward compatibility, all the functions in Unicode::UCD that
4088 return block names (except as noted) return the old-style ones.
4089 L</prop_value_aliases()> returns the new-style and can be used to convert from
4090 old-style to new-style:
4092 my $new_style = prop_values_aliases("block", $old_style);
4094 Perl also has single-form extensions that refer to blocks, C<In_Cyrillic>,
4095 meaning C<Block=Cyrillic>. These have always been written in the new style.
4097 To convert from new-style to old-style, follow this recipe:
4099 $old_style = charblock((prop_invlist("block=$new_style"))[0]);
4101 (which finds the range of code points in the block using C<prop_invlist>,
4102 gets the lower end of the range (0th element) and then looks up the old name
4103 for its block using C<charblock>).
4105 Note that starting in Unicode 6.1, many of the block names have shorter
4106 synonyms. These are always given in the new style.
4108 =head2 Use with older Unicode versions
4110 The functions in this module work as well as can be expected when
4111 used on earlier Unicode versions. But, obviously, they use the available data
4112 from that Unicode version. For example, if the Unicode version predates the
4113 definition of the script property (Unicode 3.1), then any function that deals
4114 with scripts is going to return C<undef> for the script portion of the return
4119 Jarkko Hietaniemi. Now maintained by perl5 porters.