package charnames;
use strict;
use warnings;
-use File::Spec;
-our $VERSION = '1.15';
+our $VERSION = '1.43';
+use unicore::Name; # mktables-generated algorithmically-defined names
+use _charnames (); # The submodule for this where most of the work gets done
use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits
+use re "/aa"; # Everything in here should be ASCII
-my %system_aliases = (
- # Icky 3.2 names with parentheses.
- 'LINE FEED' => 0x0A, # LINE FEED (LF)
- 'FORM FEED' => 0x0C, # FORM FEED (FF)
- 'CARRIAGE RETURN' => 0x0D, # CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
- 'NEXT LINE' => 0x85, # NEXT LINE (NEL)
-
- # Some variant names from Wikipedia
- 'SINGLE-SHIFT 2' => 0x8E,
- 'SINGLE-SHIFT 3' => 0x8F,
- 'PRIVATE USE 1' => 0x91,
- 'PRIVATE USE 2' => 0x92,
- 'START OF PROTECTED AREA' => 0x96,
- 'END OF PROTECTED AREA' => 0x97,
-
- # Convenience. Standard abbreviations for the controls
- 'NUL' => 0x00, # NULL
- 'SOH' => 0x01, # START OF HEADING
- 'STX' => 0x02, # START OF TEXT
- 'ETX' => 0x03, # END OF TEXT
- 'EOT' => 0x04, # END OF TRANSMISSION
- 'ENQ' => 0x05, # ENQUIRY
- 'ACK' => 0x06, # ACKNOWLEDGE
- 'BEL' => 0x07, # BELL
- 'BS' => 0x08, # BACKSPACE
- 'HT' => 0x09, # HORIZONTAL TABULATION
- 'LF' => 0x0A, # LINE FEED (LF)
- 'VT' => 0x0B, # VERTICAL TABULATION
- 'FF' => 0x0C, # FORM FEED (FF)
- 'CR' => 0x0D, # CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
- 'SO' => 0x0E, # SHIFT OUT
- 'SI' => 0x0F, # SHIFT IN
- 'DLE' => 0x10, # DATA LINK ESCAPE
- 'DC1' => 0x11, # DEVICE CONTROL ONE
- 'DC2' => 0x12, # DEVICE CONTROL TWO
- 'DC3' => 0x13, # DEVICE CONTROL THREE
- 'DC4' => 0x14, # DEVICE CONTROL FOUR
- 'NAK' => 0x15, # NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGE
- 'SYN' => 0x16, # SYNCHRONOUS IDLE
- 'ETB' => 0x17, # END OF TRANSMISSION BLOCK
- 'CAN' => 0x18, # CANCEL
- 'EOM' => 0x19, # END OF MEDIUM
- 'SUB' => 0x1A, # SUBSTITUTE
- 'ESC' => 0x1B, # ESCAPE
- 'FS' => 0x1C, # FILE SEPARATOR
- 'GS' => 0x1D, # GROUP SEPARATOR
- 'RS' => 0x1E, # RECORD SEPARATOR
- 'US' => 0x1F, # UNIT SEPARATOR
- 'DEL' => 0x7F, # DELETE
- 'BPH' => 0x82, # BREAK PERMITTED HERE
- 'NBH' => 0x83, # NO BREAK HERE
- 'NEL' => 0x85, # NEXT LINE (NEL)
- 'SSA' => 0x86, # START OF SELECTED AREA
- 'ESA' => 0x87, # END OF SELECTED AREA
- 'HTS' => 0x88, # CHARACTER TABULATION SET
- 'HTJ' => 0x89, # CHARACTER TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION
- 'VTS' => 0x8A, # LINE TABULATION SET
- 'PLD' => 0x8B, # PARTIAL LINE FORWARD
- 'PLU' => 0x8C, # PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD
- 'RI ' => 0x8D, # REVERSE LINE FEED
- 'SS2' => 0x8E, # SINGLE SHIFT TWO
- 'SS3' => 0x8F, # SINGLE SHIFT THREE
- 'DCS' => 0x90, # DEVICE CONTROL STRING
- 'PU1' => 0x91, # PRIVATE USE ONE
- 'PU2' => 0x92, # PRIVATE USE TWO
- 'STS' => 0x93, # SET TRANSMIT STATE
- 'CCH' => 0x94, # CANCEL CHARACTER
- 'MW ' => 0x95, # MESSAGE WAITING
- 'SPA' => 0x96, # START OF GUARDED AREA
- 'EPA' => 0x97, # END OF GUARDED AREA
- 'SOS' => 0x98, # START OF STRING
- 'SCI' => 0x9A, # SINGLE CHARACTER INTRODUCER
- 'CSI' => 0x9B, # CONTROL SEQUENCE INTRODUCER
- 'ST ' => 0x9C, # STRING TERMINATOR
- 'OSC' => 0x9D, # OPERATING SYSTEM COMMAND
- 'PM ' => 0x9E, # PRIVACY MESSAGE
- 'APC' => 0x9F, # APPLICATION PROGRAM COMMAND
-
- # There are no names for these in the Unicode standard;
- # perhaps should be deprecated, but then again there are
- # no alternative names, so am not deprecating. And if
- # did, the code would have to change to not recommend an
- # alternative for these.
- 'PADDING CHARACTER' => 0x80,
- 'PAD' => 0x80,
- 'HIGH OCTET PRESET' => 0x81,
- 'HOP' => 0x81,
- 'INDEX' => 0x84,
- 'IND' => 0x84,
- 'SINGLE GRAPHIC CHARACTER INTRODUCER' => 0x99,
- 'SGC' => 0x99,
-
- # More convenience. For further convenience,
- # it is suggested some way of using the NamesList
- # aliases be implemented, but there are ambiguities in
- # NamesList.txt
- 'BOM' => 0xFEFF, # BYTE ORDER MARK
- 'BYTE ORDER MARK'=> 0xFEFF,
- 'CGJ' => 0x034F, # COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER
- 'FVS1' => 0x180B, # MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR ONE
- 'FVS2' => 0x180C, # MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR TWO
- 'FVS3' => 0x180D, # MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR THREE
- 'LRE' => 0x202A, # LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING
- 'LRM' => 0x200E, # LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
- 'LRO' => 0x202D, # LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE
- 'MMSP' => 0x205F, # MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
- 'MVS' => 0x180E, # MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR
- 'NBSP' => 0x00A0, # NO-BREAK SPACE
- 'NNBSP' => 0x202F, # NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
- 'PDF' => 0x202C, # POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
- 'RLE' => 0x202B, # RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING
- 'RLM' => 0x200F, # RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
- 'RLO' => 0x202E, # RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
- 'SHY' => 0x00AD, # SOFT HYPHEN
- 'VS1' => 0xFE00, # VARIATION SELECTOR-1
- 'VS2' => 0xFE01, # VARIATION SELECTOR-2
- 'VS3' => 0xFE02, # VARIATION SELECTOR-3
- 'VS4' => 0xFE03, # VARIATION SELECTOR-4
- 'VS5' => 0xFE04, # VARIATION SELECTOR-5
- 'VS6' => 0xFE05, # VARIATION SELECTOR-6
- 'VS7' => 0xFE06, # VARIATION SELECTOR-7
- 'VS8' => 0xFE07, # VARIATION SELECTOR-8
- 'VS9' => 0xFE08, # VARIATION SELECTOR-9
- 'VS10' => 0xFE09, # VARIATION SELECTOR-10
- 'VS11' => 0xFE0A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-11
- 'VS12' => 0xFE0B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-12
- 'VS13' => 0xFE0C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-13
- 'VS14' => 0xFE0D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-14
- 'VS15' => 0xFE0E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-15
- 'VS16' => 0xFE0F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-16
- 'VS17' => 0xE0100, # VARIATION SELECTOR-17
- 'VS18' => 0xE0101, # VARIATION SELECTOR-18
- 'VS19' => 0xE0102, # VARIATION SELECTOR-19
- 'VS20' => 0xE0103, # VARIATION SELECTOR-20
- 'VS21' => 0xE0104, # VARIATION SELECTOR-21
- 'VS22' => 0xE0105, # VARIATION SELECTOR-22
- 'VS23' => 0xE0106, # VARIATION SELECTOR-23
- 'VS24' => 0xE0107, # VARIATION SELECTOR-24
- 'VS25' => 0xE0108, # VARIATION SELECTOR-25
- 'VS26' => 0xE0109, # VARIATION SELECTOR-26
- 'VS27' => 0xE010A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-27
- 'VS28' => 0xE010B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-28
- 'VS29' => 0xE010C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-29
- 'VS30' => 0xE010D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-30
- 'VS31' => 0xE010E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-31
- 'VS32' => 0xE010F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-32
- 'VS33' => 0xE0110, # VARIATION SELECTOR-33
- 'VS34' => 0xE0111, # VARIATION SELECTOR-34
- 'VS35' => 0xE0112, # VARIATION SELECTOR-35
- 'VS36' => 0xE0113, # VARIATION SELECTOR-36
- 'VS37' => 0xE0114, # VARIATION SELECTOR-37
- 'VS38' => 0xE0115, # VARIATION SELECTOR-38
- 'VS39' => 0xE0116, # VARIATION SELECTOR-39
- 'VS40' => 0xE0117, # VARIATION SELECTOR-40
- 'VS41' => 0xE0118, # VARIATION SELECTOR-41
- 'VS42' => 0xE0119, # VARIATION SELECTOR-42
- 'VS43' => 0xE011A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-43
- 'VS44' => 0xE011B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-44
- 'VS45' => 0xE011C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-45
- 'VS46' => 0xE011D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-46
- 'VS47' => 0xE011E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-47
- 'VS48' => 0xE011F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-48
- 'VS49' => 0xE0120, # VARIATION SELECTOR-49
- 'VS50' => 0xE0121, # VARIATION SELECTOR-50
- 'VS51' => 0xE0122, # VARIATION SELECTOR-51
- 'VS52' => 0xE0123, # VARIATION SELECTOR-52
- 'VS53' => 0xE0124, # VARIATION SELECTOR-53
- 'VS54' => 0xE0125, # VARIATION SELECTOR-54
- 'VS55' => 0xE0126, # VARIATION SELECTOR-55
- 'VS56' => 0xE0127, # VARIATION SELECTOR-56
- 'VS57' => 0xE0128, # VARIATION SELECTOR-57
- 'VS58' => 0xE0129, # VARIATION SELECTOR-58
- 'VS59' => 0xE012A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-59
- 'VS60' => 0xE012B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-60
- 'VS61' => 0xE012C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-61
- 'VS62' => 0xE012D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-62
- 'VS63' => 0xE012E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-63
- 'VS64' => 0xE012F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-64
- 'VS65' => 0xE0130, # VARIATION SELECTOR-65
- 'VS66' => 0xE0131, # VARIATION SELECTOR-66
- 'VS67' => 0xE0132, # VARIATION SELECTOR-67
- 'VS68' => 0xE0133, # VARIATION SELECTOR-68
- 'VS69' => 0xE0134, # VARIATION SELECTOR-69
- 'VS70' => 0xE0135, # VARIATION SELECTOR-70
- 'VS71' => 0xE0136, # VARIATION SELECTOR-71
- 'VS72' => 0xE0137, # VARIATION SELECTOR-72
- 'VS73' => 0xE0138, # VARIATION SELECTOR-73
- 'VS74' => 0xE0139, # VARIATION SELECTOR-74
- 'VS75' => 0xE013A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-75
- 'VS76' => 0xE013B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-76
- 'VS77' => 0xE013C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-77
- 'VS78' => 0xE013D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-78
- 'VS79' => 0xE013E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-79
- 'VS80' => 0xE013F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-80
- 'VS81' => 0xE0140, # VARIATION SELECTOR-81
- 'VS82' => 0xE0141, # VARIATION SELECTOR-82
- 'VS83' => 0xE0142, # VARIATION SELECTOR-83
- 'VS84' => 0xE0143, # VARIATION SELECTOR-84
- 'VS85' => 0xE0144, # VARIATION SELECTOR-85
- 'VS86' => 0xE0145, # VARIATION SELECTOR-86
- 'VS87' => 0xE0146, # VARIATION SELECTOR-87
- 'VS88' => 0xE0147, # VARIATION SELECTOR-88
- 'VS89' => 0xE0148, # VARIATION SELECTOR-89
- 'VS90' => 0xE0149, # VARIATION SELECTOR-90
- 'VS91' => 0xE014A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-91
- 'VS92' => 0xE014B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-92
- 'VS93' => 0xE014C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-93
- 'VS94' => 0xE014D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-94
- 'VS95' => 0xE014E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-95
- 'VS96' => 0xE014F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-96
- 'VS97' => 0xE0150, # VARIATION SELECTOR-97
- 'VS98' => 0xE0151, # VARIATION SELECTOR-98
- 'VS99' => 0xE0152, # VARIATION SELECTOR-99
- 'VS100' => 0xE0153, # VARIATION SELECTOR-100
- 'VS101' => 0xE0154, # VARIATION SELECTOR-101
- 'VS102' => 0xE0155, # VARIATION SELECTOR-102
- 'VS103' => 0xE0156, # VARIATION SELECTOR-103
- 'VS104' => 0xE0157, # VARIATION SELECTOR-104
- 'VS105' => 0xE0158, # VARIATION SELECTOR-105
- 'VS106' => 0xE0159, # VARIATION SELECTOR-106
- 'VS107' => 0xE015A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-107
- 'VS108' => 0xE015B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-108
- 'VS109' => 0xE015C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-109
- 'VS110' => 0xE015D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-110
- 'VS111' => 0xE015E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-111
- 'VS112' => 0xE015F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-112
- 'VS113' => 0xE0160, # VARIATION SELECTOR-113
- 'VS114' => 0xE0161, # VARIATION SELECTOR-114
- 'VS115' => 0xE0162, # VARIATION SELECTOR-115
- 'VS116' => 0xE0163, # VARIATION SELECTOR-116
- 'VS117' => 0xE0164, # VARIATION SELECTOR-117
- 'VS118' => 0xE0165, # VARIATION SELECTOR-118
- 'VS119' => 0xE0166, # VARIATION SELECTOR-119
- 'VS120' => 0xE0167, # VARIATION SELECTOR-120
- 'VS121' => 0xE0168, # VARIATION SELECTOR-121
- 'VS122' => 0xE0169, # VARIATION SELECTOR-122
- 'VS123' => 0xE016A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-123
- 'VS124' => 0xE016B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-124
- 'VS125' => 0xE016C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-125
- 'VS126' => 0xE016D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-126
- 'VS127' => 0xE016E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-127
- 'VS128' => 0xE016F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-128
- 'VS129' => 0xE0170, # VARIATION SELECTOR-129
- 'VS130' => 0xE0171, # VARIATION SELECTOR-130
- 'VS131' => 0xE0172, # VARIATION SELECTOR-131
- 'VS132' => 0xE0173, # VARIATION SELECTOR-132
- 'VS133' => 0xE0174, # VARIATION SELECTOR-133
- 'VS134' => 0xE0175, # VARIATION SELECTOR-134
- 'VS135' => 0xE0176, # VARIATION SELECTOR-135
- 'VS136' => 0xE0177, # VARIATION SELECTOR-136
- 'VS137' => 0xE0178, # VARIATION SELECTOR-137
- 'VS138' => 0xE0179, # VARIATION SELECTOR-138
- 'VS139' => 0xE017A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-139
- 'VS140' => 0xE017B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-140
- 'VS141' => 0xE017C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-141
- 'VS142' => 0xE017D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-142
- 'VS143' => 0xE017E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-143
- 'VS144' => 0xE017F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-144
- 'VS145' => 0xE0180, # VARIATION SELECTOR-145
- 'VS146' => 0xE0181, # VARIATION SELECTOR-146
- 'VS147' => 0xE0182, # VARIATION SELECTOR-147
- 'VS148' => 0xE0183, # VARIATION SELECTOR-148
- 'VS149' => 0xE0184, # VARIATION SELECTOR-149
- 'VS150' => 0xE0185, # VARIATION SELECTOR-150
- 'VS151' => 0xE0186, # VARIATION SELECTOR-151
- 'VS152' => 0xE0187, # VARIATION SELECTOR-152
- 'VS153' => 0xE0188, # VARIATION SELECTOR-153
- 'VS154' => 0xE0189, # VARIATION SELECTOR-154
- 'VS155' => 0xE018A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-155
- 'VS156' => 0xE018B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-156
- 'VS157' => 0xE018C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-157
- 'VS158' => 0xE018D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-158
- 'VS159' => 0xE018E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-159
- 'VS160' => 0xE018F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-160
- 'VS161' => 0xE0190, # VARIATION SELECTOR-161
- 'VS162' => 0xE0191, # VARIATION SELECTOR-162
- 'VS163' => 0xE0192, # VARIATION SELECTOR-163
- 'VS164' => 0xE0193, # VARIATION SELECTOR-164
- 'VS165' => 0xE0194, # VARIATION SELECTOR-165
- 'VS166' => 0xE0195, # VARIATION SELECTOR-166
- 'VS167' => 0xE0196, # VARIATION SELECTOR-167
- 'VS168' => 0xE0197, # VARIATION SELECTOR-168
- 'VS169' => 0xE0198, # VARIATION SELECTOR-169
- 'VS170' => 0xE0199, # VARIATION SELECTOR-170
- 'VS171' => 0xE019A, # VARIATION SELECTOR-171
- 'VS172' => 0xE019B, # VARIATION SELECTOR-172
- 'VS173' => 0xE019C, # VARIATION SELECTOR-173
- 'VS174' => 0xE019D, # VARIATION SELECTOR-174
- 'VS175' => 0xE019E, # VARIATION SELECTOR-175
- 'VS176' => 0xE019F, # VARIATION SELECTOR-176
- 'VS177' => 0xE01A0, # VARIATION SELECTOR-177
- 'VS178' => 0xE01A1, # VARIATION SELECTOR-178
- 'VS179' => 0xE01A2, # VARIATION SELECTOR-179
- 'VS180' => 0xE01A3, # VARIATION SELECTOR-180
- 'VS181' => 0xE01A4, # VARIATION SELECTOR-181
- 'VS182' => 0xE01A5, # VARIATION SELECTOR-182
- 'VS183' => 0xE01A6, # VARIATION SELECTOR-183
- 'VS184' => 0xE01A7, # VARIATION SELECTOR-184
- 'VS185' => 0xE01A8, # VARIATION SELECTOR-185
- 'VS186' => 0xE01A9, # VARIATION SELECTOR-186
- 'VS187' => 0xE01AA, # VARIATION SELECTOR-187
- 'VS188' => 0xE01AB, # VARIATION SELECTOR-188
- 'VS189' => 0xE01AC, # VARIATION SELECTOR-189
- 'VS190' => 0xE01AD, # VARIATION SELECTOR-190
- 'VS191' => 0xE01AE, # VARIATION SELECTOR-191
- 'VS192' => 0xE01AF, # VARIATION SELECTOR-192
- 'VS193' => 0xE01B0, # VARIATION SELECTOR-193
- 'VS194' => 0xE01B1, # VARIATION SELECTOR-194
- 'VS195' => 0xE01B2, # VARIATION SELECTOR-195
- 'VS196' => 0xE01B3, # VARIATION SELECTOR-196
- 'VS197' => 0xE01B4, # VARIATION SELECTOR-197
- 'VS198' => 0xE01B5, # VARIATION SELECTOR-198
- 'VS199' => 0xE01B6, # VARIATION SELECTOR-199
- 'VS200' => 0xE01B7, # VARIATION SELECTOR-200
- 'VS201' => 0xE01B8, # VARIATION SELECTOR-201
- 'VS202' => 0xE01B9, # VARIATION SELECTOR-202
- 'VS203' => 0xE01BA, # VARIATION SELECTOR-203
- 'VS204' => 0xE01BB, # VARIATION SELECTOR-204
- 'VS205' => 0xE01BC, # VARIATION SELECTOR-205
- 'VS206' => 0xE01BD, # VARIATION SELECTOR-206
- 'VS207' => 0xE01BE, # VARIATION SELECTOR-207
- 'VS208' => 0xE01BF, # VARIATION SELECTOR-208
- 'VS209' => 0xE01C0, # VARIATION SELECTOR-209
- 'VS210' => 0xE01C1, # VARIATION SELECTOR-210
- 'VS211' => 0xE01C2, # VARIATION SELECTOR-211
- 'VS212' => 0xE01C3, # VARIATION SELECTOR-212
- 'VS213' => 0xE01C4, # VARIATION SELECTOR-213
- 'VS214' => 0xE01C5, # VARIATION SELECTOR-214
- 'VS215' => 0xE01C6, # VARIATION SELECTOR-215
- 'VS216' => 0xE01C7, # VARIATION SELECTOR-216
- 'VS217' => 0xE01C8, # VARIATION SELECTOR-217
- 'VS218' => 0xE01C9, # VARIATION SELECTOR-218
- 'VS219' => 0xE01CA, # VARIATION SELECTOR-219
- 'VS220' => 0xE01CB, # VARIATION SELECTOR-220
- 'VS221' => 0xE01CC, # VARIATION SELECTOR-221
- 'VS222' => 0xE01CD, # VARIATION SELECTOR-222
- 'VS223' => 0xE01CE, # VARIATION SELECTOR-223
- 'VS224' => 0xE01CF, # VARIATION SELECTOR-224
- 'VS225' => 0xE01D0, # VARIATION SELECTOR-225
- 'VS226' => 0xE01D1, # VARIATION SELECTOR-226
- 'VS227' => 0xE01D2, # VARIATION SELECTOR-227
- 'VS228' => 0xE01D3, # VARIATION SELECTOR-228
- 'VS229' => 0xE01D4, # VARIATION SELECTOR-229
- 'VS230' => 0xE01D5, # VARIATION SELECTOR-230
- 'VS231' => 0xE01D6, # VARIATION SELECTOR-231
- 'VS232' => 0xE01D7, # VARIATION SELECTOR-232
- 'VS233' => 0xE01D8, # VARIATION SELECTOR-233
- 'VS234' => 0xE01D9, # VARIATION SELECTOR-234
- 'VS235' => 0xE01DA, # VARIATION SELECTOR-235
- 'VS236' => 0xE01DB, # VARIATION SELECTOR-236
- 'VS237' => 0xE01DC, # VARIATION SELECTOR-237
- 'VS238' => 0xE01DD, # VARIATION SELECTOR-238
- 'VS239' => 0xE01DE, # VARIATION SELECTOR-239
- 'VS240' => 0xE01DF, # VARIATION SELECTOR-240
- 'VS241' => 0xE01E0, # VARIATION SELECTOR-241
- 'VS242' => 0xE01E1, # VARIATION SELECTOR-242
- 'VS243' => 0xE01E2, # VARIATION SELECTOR-243
- 'VS244' => 0xE01E3, # VARIATION SELECTOR-244
- 'VS245' => 0xE01E4, # VARIATION SELECTOR-245
- 'VS246' => 0xE01E5, # VARIATION SELECTOR-246
- 'VS247' => 0xE01E6, # VARIATION SELECTOR-247
- 'VS248' => 0xE01E7, # VARIATION SELECTOR-248
- 'VS249' => 0xE01E8, # VARIATION SELECTOR-249
- 'VS250' => 0xE01E9, # VARIATION SELECTOR-250
- 'VS251' => 0xE01EA, # VARIATION SELECTOR-251
- 'VS252' => 0xE01EB, # VARIATION SELECTOR-252
- 'VS253' => 0xE01EC, # VARIATION SELECTOR-253
- 'VS254' => 0xE01ED, # VARIATION SELECTOR-254
- 'VS255' => 0xE01EE, # VARIATION SELECTOR-255
- 'VS256' => 0xE01EF, # VARIATION SELECTOR-256
- 'WJ' => 0x2060, # WORD JOINER
- 'ZWJ' => 0x200D, # ZERO WIDTH JOINER
- 'ZWNJ' => 0x200C, # ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
- 'ZWSP' => 0x200B, # ZERO WIDTH SPACE
- );
-
-my %deprecated_aliases = (
- # Pre-3.2 compatibility (only for the first 256 characters).
- # Use of these gives deprecated message.
- 'HORIZONTAL TABULATION' => 0x09, # CHARACTER TABULATION
- 'VERTICAL TABULATION' => 0x0B, # LINE TABULATION
- 'FILE SEPARATOR' => 0x1C, # INFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR
- 'GROUP SEPARATOR' => 0x1D, # INFORMATION SEPARATOR THREE
- 'RECORD SEPARATOR' => 0x1E, # INFORMATION SEPARATOR TWO
- 'UNIT SEPARATOR' => 0x1F, # INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE
- 'HORIZONTAL TABULATION SET' => 0x88, # CHARACTER TABULATION SET
- 'HORIZONTAL TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION' => 0x89, # CHARACTER TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION
- 'PARTIAL LINE DOWN' => 0x8B, # PARTIAL LINE FORWARD
- 'PARTIAL LINE UP' => 0x8C, # PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD
- 'VERTICAL TABULATION SET' => 0x8A, # LINE TABULATION SET
- 'REVERSE INDEX' => 0x8D, # REVERSE LINE FEED
- );
-
-
-my $txt; # The table of official character names
-
-my %full_names_cache; # Holds already-looked-up names, so don't have to
-# re-look them up again. The previous versions of charnames had scoping
-# bugs. For example if we use script A in one scope and find and cache
-# what Z resolves to, we can't use that cache in a different scope that
-# uses script B instead of A, as Z might be an entirely different letter
-# there; or there might be different aliases in effect in different
-# scopes, or :short may be in effect or not effect in different scopes,
-# or various combinations thereof. This was solved in this version
-# mostly by moving things to %^H. But some things couldn't be moved
-# there. One of them was the cache of runtime looked-up names, in part
-# because %^H is read-only at runtime. I (khw) don't know why the cache
-# was run-time only in the previous versions: perhaps oversight; perhaps
-# that compile time looking doesn't happen in a loop so didn't think it
-# was worthwhile; perhaps not wanting to make the cache too large. But
-# I decided to make it compile time as well; this could easily be
-# changed.
-# Anyway, this hash is not scoped, and is added to at runtime. It
-# doesn't have scoping problems because the data in it is restricted to
-# official names, which are always invariant, and we only set it and
-# look at it at during :full lookups, so is unaffected by any other
-# scoped options. I put this in to maintain parity with the older
-# version. If desired, a %short_names cache could also be made, as well
-# as one for each script, say in %script_names_cache, with each key
-# being a hash for a script named in a 'use charnames' statement. I
-# decided not to do that for now, just because it's added complication,
-# and because I'm just trying to maintain parity, not extend it.
-
-# Designed so that test decimal first, and then hex. Leading zeros
-# imply non-decimal, as do non-[0-9]
-my $decimal_qr = qr/^[1-9]\d*$/;
-
-# Returns the hex number in $1.
-my $hex_qr = qr/^(?:[Uu]\+|0[xX])?([[:xdigit:]]+)$/;
-
-sub croak
-{
- require Carp; goto &Carp::croak;
-} # croak
-
-sub carp
-{
- require Carp; goto &Carp::carp;
-} # carp
-
-sub alias (@) # Set up a single alias
-{
- my $alias = ref $_[0] ? $_[0] : { @_ };
- foreach my $name (keys %$alias) {
- my $value = $alias->{$name};
- next unless defined $value; # Omit if screwed up.
-
- # Is slightly slower to just after this statement see if it is
- # decimal, since we already know it is after having converted from
- # hex, but makes the code easier to maintain, and is called
- # infrequently, only at compile-time
- if ($value !~ $decimal_qr && $value =~ $hex_qr) {
- $value = CORE::hex $1;
- }
- if ($value =~ $decimal_qr) {
- $^H{charnames_ord_aliases}{$name} = $value;
-
- # Use a canonical form.
- $^H{charnames_inverse_ords}{sprintf("%05X", $value)} = $name;
- }
- else {
- # XXX validate syntax when deprecation cycle complete. ie. start
- # with an alpha only, etc.
- $^H{charnames_name_aliases}{$name} = $value;
- }
- }
-} # alias
-
-sub not_legal_use_bytes_msg {
- my ($name, $ord) = @_;
- return sprintf("Character 0x%04x with name '$name' is above 0xFF with 'use bytes' in effect", $ord);
-}
-
-sub alias_file ($) # Reads a file containing alias definitions
-{
- my ($arg, $file) = @_;
- if (-f $arg && File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute ($arg)) {
- $file = $arg;
- }
- elsif ($arg =~ m/^\w+$/) {
- $file = "unicore/${arg}_alias.pl";
- }
- else {
- croak "Charnames alias files can only have identifier characters";
- }
- if (my @alias = do $file) {
- @alias == 1 && !defined $alias[0] and
- croak "$file cannot be used as alias file for charnames";
- @alias % 2 and
- croak "$file did not return a (valid) list of alias pairs";
- alias (@alias);
- return (1);
- }
- 0;
-} # alias_file
-
-# For use when don't import anything. This structure must be kept in
-# sync with the one that import() fills up.
-my %dummy_H = (
- charnames_stringified_names => "",
- charnames_stringified_ords => "",
- charnames_scripts => "",
- charnames_full => 1,
- charnames_short => 0,
- );
+# Translate between Unicode character names and their code points.
+# This is a wrapper around the submodule C<_charnames>. This design allows
+# C<_charnames> to be autoloaded to enable use of \N{...}, but requires this
+# module to be explicitly requested for the functions API.
-
-sub lookup_name ($;$) {
-
- # Finds the ordinal of a character name, first in the aliases, then in
- # the large table. If not found, returns undef if runtime; if
- # compile, complains and returns the Unicode replacement character.
-
- my $runtime = (@_ > 1); # compile vs run time
-
- my ($name, $hints_ref) = @_;
-
- my $utf8;
- my $save_input;
-
- if ($runtime) {
-
- # If we didn't import anything (which happens with 'use charnames ()',
- # substitute a dummy structure.
- $hints_ref = \%dummy_H if ! defined $hints_ref
- || ! defined $hints_ref->{charnames_full};
-
- # At runtime, but currently not at compile time, $^H gets
- # stringified, so un-stringify back to the original data structures.
- # These get thrown away by perl before the next invocation
- # Also fill in the hash with the non-stringified data.
- # N.B. New fields must be also added to %dummy_H
-
- %{$^H{charnames_name_aliases}} = split ',',
- $hints_ref->{charnames_stringified_names};
- %{$^H{charnames_ord_aliases}} = split ',',
- $hints_ref->{charnames_stringified_ords};
- $^H{charnames_scripts} = $hints_ref->{charnames_scripts};
- $^H{charnames_full} = $hints_ref->{charnames_full};
- $^H{charnames_short} = $hints_ref->{charnames_short};
- }
-
- # User alias should be checked first or else can't override ours, and if we
- # add any, could conflict with theirs.
- if (exists $^H{charnames_ord_aliases}{$name}) {
- $utf8 = $^H{charnames_ord_aliases}{$name};
- }
- elsif (exists $^H{charnames_name_aliases}{$name}) {
- $name = $^H{charnames_name_aliases}{$name};
- $save_input = $name; # Cache the result for any error message
- }
- elsif (exists $system_aliases{$name}) {
- $utf8 = $system_aliases{$name};
- }
- elsif (exists $deprecated_aliases{$name}) {
- require warnings;
- warnings::warnif('deprecated', "Unicode character name \"$name\" is deprecated, use \"" . viacode($deprecated_aliases{$name}) . "\" instead");
- $utf8 = $deprecated_aliases{$name};
- }
-
- my @off;
-
- if (! defined $utf8) {
-
- # See if has looked this up earlier.
- if ($^H{charnames_full} && exists $full_names_cache{$name}) {
- $utf8 = $full_names_cache{$name};
- }
- else {
-
- ## Suck in the code/name list as a big string.
- ## Lines look like:
- ## "00052\tLATIN CAPITAL LETTER R\n"
- $txt = do "unicore/Name.pl" unless $txt;
-
- ## @off will hold the index into the code/name string of the start and
- ## end of the name as we find it.
-
- ## If :full, look for the name exactly; runtime implies full
- my $found_full_in_table = 0; # Tells us if can cache the result
- if ($^H{charnames_full}) {
-
- # See if the name is one which is algorithmically determinable.
- # The subroutine is included in Name.pl. The table contained in
- # $txt doesn't contain these. Experiments show that checking
- # for these before checking for the regular names has no
- # noticeable impact on performance for the regular names, but
- # the other way around slows down finding these immensely.
- # Algorithmically determinables are not placed in the cache (that
- # $found_full_in_table indicates) because that uses up memory,
- # and finding these again is fast.
- if (! defined ($utf8 = name_to_code_point_special($name))) {
-
- # Not algorthmically determinable; look up in the table.
- if ($txt =~ /\t\Q$name\E$/m) {
- @off = ($-[0] + 1, $+[0]); # The 1 is for the tab
- $found_full_in_table = 1;
- }
- }
- }
-
- # If we didn't get it above, keep looking
- if (! $found_full_in_table && ! defined $utf8) {
-
- # If :short is allowed, see if input is like "greek:Sigma".
- my $scripts_trie;
- if (($^H{charnames_short})
- && $name =~ /^ \s* (.+?) \s* : \s* (.+?) \s* $ /xs)
- {
- $scripts_trie = "\U\Q$1";
- $name = $2;
- }
- else {
- $scripts_trie = $^H{charnames_scripts};
- }
-
- my $case = $name =~ /[[:upper:]]/ ? "CAPITAL" : "SMALL";
- if ($txt !~
- /\t (?: $scripts_trie ) \ (?:$case\ )? LETTER \ \U\Q$name\E $/xm)
- {
- # Here we still don't have it, give up.
- return if $runtime;
-
- # May have zapped input name, get it again.
- $name = (defined $save_input) ? $save_input : $_[0];
- carp "Unknown charname '$name'";
- return 0xFFFD;
- }
-
- @off = ($-[0] + 1, $+[0]); # The 1 is for the tab
- }
-
- if (! defined $utf8) {
-
- # Now know where in the string the name starts.
- # The code, 5 hex digits long (and a tab), is before that.
- $utf8 = CORE::hex substr($txt, $off[0] - 6, 5);
- }
-
- # Cache the input so as to not have to search the large table
- # again, but only if it came from the one search that we cache.
- $full_names_cache{$name} = $utf8 if $found_full_in_table;
- }
- }
-
- return $utf8 if $runtime || $utf8 <= 255 || ! ($^H & $bytes::hint_bits);
-
- # Here is compile time, "use bytes" is in effect, and the character
- # won't fit in a byte
- # Prefer any official name over the input one.
- if (@off) {
- $name = substr($txt, $off[0], $off[1] - $off[0]) if @off;
- }
- else {
- $name = (defined $save_input) ? $save_input : $_[0];
- }
- croak not_legal_use_bytes_msg($name, $utf8);
-} # lookup_name
-
-sub charnames {
- my $name = shift;
-
- # For \N{...}. Looks up the character name and returns its ordinal if
- # found, undef otherwise. If not in 'use bytes', forces into utf8
-
- my $ord = lookup_name($name);
- return if ! defined $ord;
- return chr $ord if $^H & $bytes::hint_bits;
-
- no warnings 'utf8'; # allow even illegal characters
- return pack "U", $ord;
-}
+$Carp::Internal{ (__PACKAGE__) } = 1;
sub import
{
shift; ## ignore class name
-
- if (not @_) {
- carp("`use charnames' needs explicit imports list");
- }
- $^H{charnames} = \&charnames ;
- $^H{charnames_ord_aliases} = {};
- $^H{charnames_name_aliases} = {};
- $^H{charnames_inverse_ords} = {};
- # New fields must be added to %dummy_H, and the code in lookup_name()
- # that copies fields from the runtime structure
-
- ##
- ## fill %h keys with our @_ args.
- ##
- my ($promote, %h, @args) = (0);
- while (my $arg = shift) {
- if ($arg eq ":alias") {
- @_ or
- croak ":alias needs an argument in charnames";
- my $alias = shift;
- if (ref $alias) {
- ref $alias eq "HASH" or
- croak "Only HASH reference supported as argument to :alias";
- alias ($alias);
- next;
- }
- if ($alias =~ m{:(\w+)$}) {
- $1 eq "full" || $1 eq "short" and
- croak ":alias cannot use existing pragma :$1 (reversed order?)";
- alias_file ($1) and $promote = 1;
- next;
- }
- alias_file ($alias);
- next;
- }
- if (substr($arg, 0, 1) eq ':' and ! ($arg eq ":full" || $arg eq ":short")) {
- warn "unsupported special '$arg' in charnames";
- next;
- }
- push @args, $arg;
- }
- @args == 0 && $promote and @args = (":full");
- @h{@args} = (1) x @args;
-
- $^H{charnames_full} = delete $h{':full'} || 0; # Don't leave undefined,
- # as tested for in
- # lookup_names
- $^H{charnames_short} = delete $h{':short'} || 0;
- my @scripts = map uc, keys %h;
-
- ##
- ## If utf8? warnings are enabled, and some scripts were given,
- ## see if at least we can find one letter from each script.
- ##
- if (warnings::enabled('utf8') && @scripts) {
- $txt = do "unicore/Name.pl" unless $txt;
-
- for my $script (@scripts) {
- if (not $txt =~ m/\t$script (?:CAPITAL |SMALL )?LETTER /) {
- warnings::warn('utf8', "No such script: '$script'");
- $script = quotemeta $script; # Escape it, for use in the re.
- }
- }
- }
-
- # %^H gets stringified, so serialize it ourselves so can extract the
- # real data back later.
- $^H{charnames_stringified_ords} = join ",", %{$^H{charnames_ord_aliases}};
- $^H{charnames_stringified_names} = join ",", %{$^H{charnames_name_aliases}};
- $^H{charnames_stringified_inverse_ords} = join ",", %{$^H{charnames_inverse_ords}};
- $^H{charnames_scripts} = join "|", @scripts; # Stringifiy them as a trie
-} # import
+ _charnames->import(@_);
+}
# Cache of already looked-up values. This is set to only contain
# official values, and user aliases can't override them, so scoping is
my %viacode;
sub viacode {
+ return _charnames::viacode(@_);
+}
- # Returns the name of the code point argument
-
+sub vianame
+{
if (@_ != 1) {
- carp "charnames::viacode() expects one argument";
- return;
+ _charnames::carp "charnames::vianame() expects one name argument";
+ return ()
}
+ # Looks up the character name and returns its ordinal if
+ # found, undef otherwise.
+
my $arg = shift;
- # This is derived from Unicode::UCD, where it is nearly the same as the
- # function _getcode(), but here it makes sure that even a hex argument
- # has the proper number of leading zeros, which is critical in
- # matching against $txt below
- # Must check if decimal first; see comments at that definition
- my $hex;
- if ($arg =~ $decimal_qr) {
- $hex = sprintf "%05X", $arg;
- } elsif ($arg =~ $hex_qr) {
- # Below is the line that differs from the _getcode() source
- $hex = sprintf "%05X", hex $1;
- } else {
- carp("unexpected arg \"$arg\" to charnames::viacode()");
+ if ($arg =~ /^U\+([0-9a-fA-F]+)$/) {
+
+ # khw claims that this is poor interface design. The function should
+ # return either a an ord or a chr for all inputs; not be bipolar. But
+ # can't change it because of backward compatibility. New code can use
+ # string_vianame() instead.
+ my $ord = CORE::hex $1;
+ return pack("U", $ord) if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
+ _charnames::carp _charnames::not_legal_use_bytes_msg($arg, chr $ord);
return;
}
- return $viacode{$hex} if exists $viacode{$hex};
-
- # If the code point is above the max in the table, there's no point
- # looking through it. Checking the length first is slightly faster
- if (length($hex) <= 5 || CORE::hex($hex) <= 0x10FFFF) {
- $txt = do "unicore/Name.pl" unless $txt;
-
- # See if the name is algorithmically determinable.
- my $algorithmic = code_point_to_name_special(CORE::hex $hex);
- if (defined $algorithmic) {
- $viacode{$hex} = $algorithmic;
- return $algorithmic;
- }
-
- # Return the official name, if exists. It's unclear to me (khw) at
- # this juncture if it is better to return a user-defined override, so
- # leaving it as is for now.
- if ($txt =~ m/^$hex\t/m) {
-
- # The name starts with the next character and goes up to the
- # next new-line. Using capturing parentheses above instead of
- # @+ more than doubles the execution time in Perl 5.13
- $viacode{$hex} = substr($txt, $+[0], index($txt, "\n", $+[0]) - $+[0]);
- return $viacode{$hex};
- }
- }
+ # The first 1 arg means wants an ord returned; the second that we are in
+ # runtime, and this is the first level routine called from the user
+ return _charnames::lookup_name($arg, 1, 1);
+} # vianame
- # See if there is a user name for it, before giving up completely.
- # First get the scoped aliases, give up if have none.
- my $H_ref = (caller(0))[10];
- return if ! defined $H_ref
- || ! exists $H_ref->{charnames_stringified_inverse_ords};
-
- my %code_point_aliases = split ',',
- $H_ref->{charnames_stringified_inverse_ords};
- if (! exists $code_point_aliases{$hex}) {
- if (CORE::hex($hex) > 0x10FFFF) {
- carp "Unicode characters only allocated up to U+10FFFF (you asked for U+$hex)";
- }
- return;
- }
+sub string_vianame {
- return $code_point_aliases{$hex};
-} # viacode
+ # Looks up the character name and returns its string representation if
+ # found, undef otherwise.
-sub vianame
-{
if (@_ != 1) {
- carp "charnames::vianame() expects one name argument";
- return ()
+ _charnames::carp "charnames::string_vianame() expects one name argument";
+ return;
}
- # Looks up the character name and returns its ordinal if
- # found, undef otherwise.
-
my $arg = shift;
if ($arg =~ /^U\+([0-9a-fA-F]+)$/) {
- # khw claims that this is bad. The function should return either a
- # an ord or a chr for all inputs; not be bipolar.
my $ord = CORE::hex $1;
- return chr $ord if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
- carp not_legal_use_bytes_msg($arg, $ord);
+ return pack("U", $ord) if $ord <= 255 || ! ((caller 0)[8] & $bytes::hint_bits);
+
+ _charnames::carp _charnames::not_legal_use_bytes_msg($arg, chr $ord);
return;
}
- return lookup_name($arg, (caller(0))[10]);
-} # vianame
-
+ # The 0 arg means wants a string returned; the 1 arg means that we are in
+ # runtime, and this is the first level routine called from the user
+ return _charnames::lookup_name($arg, 0, 1);
+} # string_vianame
1;
__END__
+=encoding utf8
+
=head1 NAME
-charnames - access to Unicode character names; define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal escapes
+charnames - access to Unicode character names and named character sequences; also define character names
=head1 SYNOPSIS
- use charnames ':full';
- print "\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA} is called sigma.\n";
+ use charnames ':full';
+ print "\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA} is called sigma.\n";
+ print "\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH VERTICAL LINE BELOW}",
+ " is an officially named sequence of two Unicode characters\n";
+
+ use charnames ':loose';
+ print "\N{Greek small-letter sigma}",
+ "can be used to ignore case, underscores, most blanks,"
+ "and when you aren't sure if the official name has hyphens\n";
+
+ use charnames ':short';
+ print "\N{greek:Sigma} is an upper-case sigma.\n";
+
+ use charnames qw(cyrillic greek);
+ print "\N{sigma} is Greek sigma, and \N{be} is Cyrillic b.\n";
+
+ use utf8;
+ use charnames ":full", ":alias" => {
+ e_ACUTE => "LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE",
+ mychar => 0xE8000, # Private use area
+ "自転車に乗る人" => "BICYCLIST"
+ };
+ print "\N{e_ACUTE} is a small letter e with an acute.\n";
+ print "\N{mychar} allows me to name private use characters.\n";
+ print "And I can create synonyms in other languages,",
+ " such as \N{自転車に乗る人} for "BICYCLIST (U+1F6B4)\n";
+
+ use charnames ();
+ print charnames::viacode(0x1234); # prints "ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SEE"
+ printf "%04X", charnames::vianame("GOTHIC LETTER AHSA"); # prints
+ # "10330"
+ print charnames::vianame("LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A"); # prints 65 on
+ # ASCII platforms;
+ # 193 on EBCDIC
+ print charnames::string_vianame("LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A"); # prints "A"
- use charnames ':short';
- print "\N{greek:Sigma} is an upper-case sigma.\n";
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
- use charnames qw(cyrillic greek);
- print "\N{sigma} is Greek sigma, and \N{be} is Cyrillic b.\n";
+Pragma C<use charnames> is used to gain access to the names of the
+Unicode characters and named character sequences, and to allow you to define
+your own character and character sequence names.
- use charnames ":full", ":alias" => {
- e_ACUTE => "LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE",
- mychar => 0xE8000, # Private use area
- };
- print "\N{e_ACUTE} is a small letter e with an acute.\n";
- print "\\N{mychar} allows me to name private use characters.\n";
+All forms of the pragma enable use of the following 3 functions:
- use charnames ();
- print charnames::viacode(0x1234); # prints "ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SEE"
- printf "%04X", charnames::vianame("GOTHIC LETTER AHSA"); # prints
- # "10330"
+=over
-=head1 DESCRIPTION
+=item *
-Pragma C<use charnames> is used to gain access to the names of the
-Unicode characters, and to allow you to define your own character names.
+L</charnames::string_vianame(I<name>)> for run-time lookup of a
+either a character name or a named character sequence, returning its string
+representation
+
+=item *
+
+L</charnames::vianame(I<name>)> for run-time lookup of a
+character name (but not a named character sequence) to get its ordinal value
+(code point)
-All forms of the pragma enable use of the
-L</charnames::vianame(I<name>)> function for run-time lookup of a
-character name to get its ordinal (code point), and the inverse
-function, L</charnames::viacode(I<code>)>.
+=item *
-Forms other than C<S<"use charnames ();">> enable the use of of
-C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}> sequences to compile a Unicode character into a
-string based on its name.
+L</charnames::viacode(I<code>)> for run-time lookup of a code point to get its
+Unicode name.
+
+=back
+
+Starting in Perl v5.16, any occurrence of C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}> sequences
+in a double-quotish string automatically loads this module with arguments
+C<:full> and C<:short> (described below) if it hasn't already been loaded with
+different arguments, in order to compile the named Unicode character into
+position in the string. Prior to v5.16, an explicit S<C<use charnames>> was
+required to enable this usage. (However, prior to v5.16, the form C<S<"use
+charnames ();">> did not enable C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}>.)
Note that C<\N{U+I<...>}>, where the I<...> is a hexadecimal number,
-also inserts a character into a string, but doesn't require the use of
-this pragma. The character it inserts is the one whose code point
+also inserts a character into a string.
+The character it inserts is the one whose Unicode code point
(ordinal value) is equal to the number. For example, C<"\N{U+263a}"> is
-the Unicode (white background, black foreground) smiley face; it doesn't
-require this pragma, whereas the equivalent, C<"\N{WHITE SMILING FACE}">
-does.
-Also, C<\N{I<...>}> can mean a regex quantifier instead of a character
-name, when the I<...> is a number (or comma separated pair of numbers;
-see L<perlreref/QUANTIFIERS>), and is not related to this pragma.
-
-The C<charnames> pragma supports arguments C<:full>, C<:short>, script
-names and customized aliases. If C<:full> is present, for expansion of
+the Unicode (white background, black foreground) smiley face
+equivalent to C<"\N{WHITE SMILING FACE}">.
+Also note, C<\N{I<...>}> can mean a regex quantifier instead of a character
+name, when the I<...> is a number (or comma separated pair of numbers
+(see L<perlreref/QUANTIFIERS>), and is not related to this pragma.
+
+The C<charnames> pragma supports arguments C<:full>, C<:loose>, C<:short>,
+script names and L<customized aliases|/CUSTOM ALIASES>.
+
+If C<:full> is present, for expansion of
C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}>, the string I<CHARNAME> is first looked up in the list of
-standard Unicode character names. If C<:short> is present, and
+standard Unicode character names.
+
+C<:loose> is a variant of C<:full> which allows I<CHARNAME> to be less
+precisely specified. Details are in L</LOOSE MATCHES>.
+
+If C<:short> is present, and
I<CHARNAME> has the form C<I<SCRIPT>:I<CNAME>>, then I<CNAME> is looked up
-as a letter in script I<SCRIPT>. If C<use charnames> is used
+as a letter in script I<SCRIPT>, as described in the next paragraph.
+Or, if C<use charnames> is used
with script name arguments, then for C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}> the name
I<CHARNAME> is looked up as a letter in the given scripts (in the
specified order). Customized aliases can override these, and are explained in
L</CUSTOM ALIASES>.
-For lookup of I<CHARNAME> inside a given script I<SCRIPTNAME>
-this pragma looks for the names
+For lookup of I<CHARNAME> inside a given script I<SCRIPTNAME>,
+this pragma looks in the table of standard Unicode names for the names
SCRIPTNAME CAPITAL LETTER CHARNAME
SCRIPTNAME SMALL LETTER CHARNAME
SCRIPTNAME LETTER CHARNAME
-in the table of standard Unicode names. If I<CHARNAME> is lowercase,
+If I<CHARNAME> is all lowercase,
then the C<CAPITAL> variant is ignored, otherwise the C<SMALL> variant
-is ignored.
+is ignored, and both I<CHARNAME> and I<SCRIPTNAME> are converted to all
+uppercase for look-up. Other than that, both of them follow L<loose|/LOOSE
+MATCHES> rules if C<:loose> is also specified; strict otherwise.
Note that C<\N{...}> is compile-time; it's a special form of string
constant used inside double-quotish strings; this means that you cannot
use variables inside the C<\N{...}>. If you want similar run-time
-functionality, use L<charnames::vianame()|/charnames::vianame(I<name>)>.
+functionality, use
+L<charnames::string_vianame()|/charnames::string_vianame(I<name>)>.
-For the C0 and C1 control characters (U+0000..U+001F, U+0080..U+009F)
-there are no official Unicode names but you can use instead the ISO 6429
-names (LINE FEED, ESCAPE, and so forth, and their abbreviations, LF,
-ESC, ...). In Unicode 3.2 (as of Perl 5.8) some naming changes took
-place, and ISO 6429 was updated, see L</ALIASES>.
+Note, starting in Perl 5.18, the name C<BELL> refers to the Unicode character
+U+1F514, instead of the traditional U+0007. For the latter, use C<ALERT>
+or C<BEL>.
-If the input name is unknown, C<\N{NAME}> raises a warning and
-substitutes the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD).
+It is a syntax error to use C<\N{NAME}> where C<NAME> is unknown.
-It is a fatal error if C<use bytes> is in effect and the input name is
-that of a character that won't fit into a byte (i.e., whose ordinal is
-above 255).
+For C<\N{NAME}>, it is a fatal error if C<use bytes> is in effect and the
+input name is that of a character that won't fit into a byte (i.e., whose
+ordinal is above 255).
Otherwise, any string that includes a C<\N{I<charname>}> or
-C<S<\N{U+I<code point>}>> will automatically have Unicode semantics (see
+C<S<\N{U+I<code point>}>> will automatically have Unicode rules (see
L<perlunicode/Byte and Character Semantics>).
+=head1 LOOSE MATCHES
+
+By specifying C<:loose>, Unicode's L<loose character name
+matching|http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44#Matching_Rules> rules are
+selected instead of the strict exact match used otherwise.
+That means that I<CHARNAME> doesn't have to be so precisely specified.
+Upper/lower case doesn't matter (except with scripts as mentioned above), nor
+do any underscores, and the only hyphens that matter are those at the
+beginning or end of a word in the name (with one exception: the hyphen in
+U+1180 C<HANGUL JUNGSEONG O-E> does matter).
+Also, blanks not adjacent to hyphens don't matter.
+The official Unicode names are quite variable as to where they use hyphens
+versus spaces to separate word-like units, and this option allows you to not
+have to care as much.
+The reason non-medial hyphens matter is because of cases like
+U+0F60 C<TIBETAN LETTER -A> versus U+0F68 C<TIBETAN LETTER A>.
+The hyphen here is significant, as is the space before it, and so both must be
+included.
+
+C<:loose> slows down look-ups by a factor of 2 to 3 versus
+C<:full>, but the trade-off may be worth it to you. Each individual look-up
+takes very little time, and the results are cached, so the speed difference
+would become a factor only in programs that do look-ups of many different
+spellings, and probably only when those look-ups are through C<vianame()> and
+C<string_vianame()>, since C<\N{...}> look-ups are done at compile time.
+
=head1 ALIASES
-A few aliases have been defined for convenience: instead of having
-to use the official names
-
- LINE FEED (LF)
- FORM FEED (FF)
- CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
- NEXT LINE (NEL)
-
-(yes, with parentheses), one can use
-
- LINE FEED
- FORM FEED
- CARRIAGE RETURN
- NEXT LINE
- LF
- FF
- CR
- NEL
-
-All the other standard abbreviations for the controls, such as C<ACK> for
-C<ACKNOWLEDGE> also can be used.
-
-One can also use
-
- BYTE ORDER MARK
- BOM
-
-and these abbreviations
-
- Abbreviation Full Name
-
- CGJ COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER
- FVS1 MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR ONE
- FVS2 MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR TWO
- FVS3 MONGOLIAN FREE VARIATION SELECTOR THREE
- LRE LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING
- LRM LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
- LRO LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE
- MMSP MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
- MVS MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR
- NBSP NO-BREAK SPACE
- NNBSP NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
- PDF POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
- RLE RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING
- RLM RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
- RLO RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
- SHY SOFT HYPHEN
- VS1 VARIATION SELECTOR-1
- .
- .
- .
- VS256 VARIATION SELECTOR-256
- WJ WORD JOINER
- ZWJ ZERO WIDTH JOINER
- ZWNJ ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
- ZWSP ZERO WIDTH SPACE
-
-For backward compatibility one can use the old names for
-certain C0 and C1 controls
-
- old new
-
- FILE SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR FOUR
- GROUP SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR THREE
- HORIZONTAL TABULATION CHARACTER TABULATION
- HORIZONTAL TABULATION SET CHARACTER TABULATION SET
- HORIZONTAL TABULATION WITH JUSTIFICATION CHARACTER TABULATION
- WITH JUSTIFICATION
- PARTIAL LINE DOWN PARTIAL LINE FORWARD
- PARTIAL LINE UP PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD
- RECORD SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR TWO
- REVERSE INDEX REVERSE LINE FEED
- UNIT SEPARATOR INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE
- VERTICAL TABULATION LINE TABULATION
- VERTICAL TABULATION SET LINE TABULATION SET
-
-but the old names in addition to giving the character
-will also give a warning about being deprecated.
-
-And finally, certain published variants are usable, including some for
-controls that have no Unicode names:
-
- name character
-
- END OF PROTECTED AREA END OF GUARDED AREA, U+0097
- HIGH OCTET PRESET U+0081
- HOP U+0081
- IND U+0084
- INDEX U+0084
- PAD U+0080
- PADDING CHARACTER U+0080
- PRIVATE USE 1 PRIVATE USE ONE, U+0091
- PRIVATE USE 2 PRIVATE USE TWO, U+0092
- SGC U+0099
- SINGLE GRAPHIC CHARACTER INTRODUCER U+0099
- SINGLE-SHIFT 2 SINGLE SHIFT TWO, U+008E
- SINGLE-SHIFT 3 SINGLE SHIFT THREE, U+008F
- START OF PROTECTED AREA START OF GUARDED AREA, U+0096
+Starting in Unicode 6.1 and Perl v5.16, Unicode defines many abbreviations and
+names that were formerly Perl extensions, and some additional ones that Perl
+did not previously accept. The list is getting too long to reproduce here,
+but you can get the complete list from the Unicode web site:
+L<http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NameAliases.txt>.
+
+Earlier versions of Perl accepted almost all the 6.1 names. These were most
+extensively documented in the v5.14 version of this pod:
+L<http://perldoc.perl.org/5.14.0/charnames.html#ALIASES>.
=head1 CUSTOM ALIASES
you're twisted enough, you can change C<"\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A}"> to
mean C<"B">, etc.
-Note that an alias should not be something that is a legal curly
-brace-enclosed quantifier (see L<perlreref/QUANTIFIERS>). For example
-C<\N{123}> means to match 123 non-newline characters, and is not treated as a
-charnames alias. Aliases are discouraged from beginning with anything
-other than an alphabetic character and from containing anything other
-than alphanumerics, spaces, dashes, parentheses, and underscores.
-Currently they must be ASCII.
-
-An alias can map to either an official Unicode character name or to a
+Aliases must begin with a character that is alphabetic. After that, each may
+contain any combination of word (C<\w>) characters, SPACE (U+0020),
+HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D), LEFT PARENTHESIS (U+0028), RIGHT PARENTHESIS (U+0029),
+and NO-BREAK SPACE (U+00A0). These last three should never have been allowed
+in names, and are retained for backwards compatibility only; NO-BREAK SPACE IS
+currently deprecated and scheduled for removal in Perl v5.26; the other two
+may also be
+deprecated and removed in future releases of Perl, so don't use them for new
+names. (More precisely, the first character of a name you specify must be
+something that matches all of C<\p{ID_Start}>, C<\p{Alphabetic}>, and
+C<\p{Gc=Letter}>. This makes sure it is what any reasonable person would view
+as an alphabetic character. And, the continuation characters that match C<\w>
+must also match C<\p{ID_Continue}>.) Starting with Perl v5.18, any Unicode
+characters meeting the above criteria may be used; prior to that only
+Latin1-range characters were acceptable.
+
+An alias can map to either an official Unicode character name (not a loose
+matched name) or to a
numeric code point (ordinal). The latter is useful for assigning names
to code points in Unicode private use areas such as U+E800 through
U+F8FF.
-A numeric code point must be a non-negative integer or a string beginning
+A numeric code point must be a non-negative integer, or a string beginning
with C<"U+"> or C<"0x"> with the remainder considered to be a
hexadecimal integer. A literal numeric constant must be unsigned; it
will be interpreted as hex if it has a leading zero or contains
non-decimal hex digits; otherwise it will be interpreted as decimal.
+If it begins with C<"U+">, it is interpreted as the Unicode code point;
+otherwise it is interpreted as native. (Only code points below 256 can
+differ between Unicode and native.) Thus C<U+41> is always the Latin letter
+"A"; but C<0x41> can be "NO-BREAK SPACE" on EBCDIC platforms.
Aliases are added either by the use of anonymous hashes:
use charnames ":alias" => "pro";
-will try to read C<"unicore/pro_alias.pl"> from the C<@INC> path. This
+This will try to read C<"unicore/pro_alias.pl"> from the C<@INC> path. This
file should return a list in plain perl:
(
use charnames ":full", ":alias" => "pro";
+C<":loose"> has no effect with these. Input names must match exactly, using
+C<":full"> rules.
+
+Also, both these methods currently allow only single characters to be named.
+To name a sequence of characters, use a
+L<custom translator|/CUSTOM TRANSLATORS> (described below).
+
+=head1 charnames::string_vianame(I<name>)
+
+This is a runtime equivalent to C<\N{...}>. I<name> can be any expression
+that evaluates to a name accepted by C<\N{...}> under the L<C<:full>
+option|/DESCRIPTION> to C<charnames>. In addition, any other options for the
+controlling C<"use charnames"> in the same scope apply, like C<:loose> or any
+L<script list, C<:short> option|/DESCRIPTION>, or L<custom aliases|/CUSTOM
+ALIASES> you may have defined.
+
+The only differences are due to the fact that C<string_vianame> is run-time
+and C<\N{}> is compile time. You can't interpolate inside a C<\N{}>, (so
+C<\N{$variable}> doesn't work); and if the input name is unknown,
+C<string_vianame> returns C<undef> instead of it being a syntax error.
+
+=head1 charnames::vianame(I<name>)
+
+This is similar to C<string_vianame>. The main difference is that under most
+circumstances, C<vianame> returns an ordinal code
+point, whereas C<string_vianame> returns a string. For example,
+
+ printf "U+%04X", charnames::vianame("FOUR TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK");
+
+prints "U+2722".
+
+This leads to the other two differences. Since a single code point is
+returned, the function can't handle named character sequences, as these are
+composed of multiple characters (it returns C<undef> for these. And, the code
+point can be that of any
+character, even ones that aren't legal under the C<S<use bytes>> pragma,
+
+See L</BUGS> for the circumstances in which the behavior differs
+from that described above.
+
=head1 charnames::viacode(I<code>)
Returns the full name of the character indicated by the numeric code.
prints "FOUR TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK".
-The name returned is the official name for the code point, if
-available, otherwise your custom alias for it. This means that your
-alias will only be returned for code points that don't have an official
-Unicode name (nor Unicode version 1 name), such as private use code
-points, and the 4 control characters U+0080, U+0081, U+0084, and U+0099.
+The name returned is the "best" (defined below) official name or alias
+for the code point, if
+available; otherwise your custom alias for it, if defined; otherwise C<undef>.
+This means that your alias will only be returned for code points that don't
+have an official Unicode name (nor alias) such as private use code points.
+
If you define more than one name for the code point, it is indeterminate
which one will be returned.
-The function returns C<undef> if no name is known for the code point.
-In Unicode the proper name of these is the empty string, which
+As mentioned, the function returns C<undef> if no name is known for the code
+point. In Unicode the proper name for these is the empty string, which
C<undef> stringifies to. (If you ask for a code point past the legal
Unicode maximum of U+10FFFF that you haven't assigned an alias to, you
get C<undef> plus a warning.)
-The input number must be a non-negative integer or a string beginning
+The input number must be a non-negative integer, or a string beginning
with C<"U+"> or C<"0x"> with the remainder considered to be a
hexadecimal integer. A literal numeric constant must be unsigned; it
will be interpreted as hex if it has a leading zero or contains
non-decimal hex digits; otherwise it will be interpreted as decimal.
-
-Notice that the name returned for of U+FEFF is "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK
-SPACE", not "BYTE ORDER MARK".
-
-=head1 charnames::vianame(I<name>)
-
-Returns the code point indicated by the name.
-For example,
-
- printf "%04X", charnames::vianame("FOUR TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK");
-
-prints "2722".
-
-C<vianame> takes the identical inputs that C<\N{...}> does under the
-L<C<:full> option|/DESCRIPTION> to C<charnames>. In addition, any other
-options for the controlling C<"use charnames"> in the same scope apply,
-like any L<script list, C<:short> option|/DESCRIPTION>, or L<custom
-aliases|/CUSTOM ALIASES> you may have defined.
-
-There are just a few differences. The main one is that under
-most (see L</BUGS> for the others) circumstances, vianame returns
-an ord, whereas C<\\N{...}> is seamlessly placed as a chr into the
-string in which it appears. This leads to a second difference.
-Since an ord is returned, it can be that of any character, even one
-that isn't legal under the C<S<use bytes>> pragma.
-
-The final difference is that if the input name is unknown C<vianame>
-returns C<undef> instead of the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, and it does not
-raise a warning message.
+If it begins with C<"U+">, it is interpreted as the Unicode code point;
+otherwise it is interpreted as native. (Only code points below 256 can
+differ between Unicode and native.) Thus C<U+41> is always the Latin letter
+"A"; but C<0x41> can be "NO-BREAK SPACE" on EBCDIC platforms.
+
+As mentioned above under L</ALIASES>, Unicode 6.1 defines extra names
+(synonyms or aliases) for some code points, most of which were already
+available as Perl extensions. All these are accepted by C<\N{...}> and the
+other functions in this module, but C<viacode> has to choose which one
+name to return for a given input code point, so it returns the "best" name.
+To understand how this works, it is helpful to know more about the Unicode
+name properties. All code points actually have only a single name, which
+(starting in Unicode 2.0) can never change once a character has been assigned
+to the code point. But mistakes have been made in assigning names, for
+example sometimes a clerical error was made during the publishing of the
+Standard which caused words to be misspelled, and there was no way to correct
+those. The Name_Alias property was eventually created to handle these
+situations. If a name was wrong, a corrected synonym would be published for
+it, using Name_Alias. C<viacode> will return that corrected synonym as the
+"best" name for a code point. (It is even possible, though it hasn't happened
+yet, that the correction itself will need to be corrected, and so another
+Name_Alias can be created for that code point; C<viacode> will return the
+most recent correction.)
+
+The Unicode name for each of the control characters (such as LINE FEED) is the
+empty string. However almost all had names assigned by other standards, such
+as the ASCII Standard, or were in common use. C<viacode> returns these names
+as the "best" ones available. Unicode 6.1 has created Name_Aliases for each
+of them, including alternate names, like NEW LINE. C<viacode> uses the
+original name, "LINE FEED" in preference to the alternate. Similarly the
+name returned for U+FEFF is "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE", not "BYTE ORDER
+MARK".
+
+Until Unicode 6.1, the 4 control characters U+0080, U+0081, U+0084, and U+0099
+did not have names nor aliases.
+To preserve backwards compatibility, any alias you define for these code
+points will be returned by this function, in preference to the official name.
+
+Some code points also have abbreviated names, such as "LF" or "NL".
+C<viacode> never returns these.
+
+Because a name correction may be added in future Unicode releases, the name
+that C<viacode> returns may change as a result. This is a rare event, but it
+does happen.
=head1 CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
Here translator() is a subroutine which takes I<CHARNAME> as an
argument, and returns text to insert into the string instead of the
-C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}> escape. Since the text to insert should be different
+C<\N{I<CHARNAME>}> escape.
+
+This is the only way you can create a custom named sequence of code points.
+
+Since the text to insert should be different
in C<bytes> mode and out of it, the function should check the current
state of C<bytes>-flag as in:
See L</CUSTOM ALIASES> above for restrictions on I<CHARNAME>.
-Of course, C<vianame> and C<viacode> would need to be overridden as
-well.
+Of course, C<vianame>, C<viacode>, and C<string_vianame> would need to be
+overridden as well.
=head1 BUGS
-vianame returns a chr if the input name is of the form C<U+...>, and an ord
-otherwise. It is proposed to change this to always return an ord. Send email
-to C<perl5-porters@perl.org> to comment on this proposal. If S<C<use
-bytes>> is in effect when a chr is returned, and if that chr won't fit
-into a byte, C<undef> is returned instead.
-
-Names must be ASCII characters only, which means that you are out of luck if
-you want to create aliases in a language where some or all the characters of
-the desired aliases are non-ASCII.
-
-Unicode standard named sequences are not recognized, such as
-C<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON AND GRAVE>
-(which should mean C<LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON> with an additional
-C<COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT>).
+vianame() normally returns an ordinal code point, but when the input name is of
+the form C<U+...>, it returns a chr instead. In this case, if C<use bytes> is
+in effect and the character won't fit into a byte, it returns C<undef> and
+raises a warning.
Since evaluation of the translation function (see L</CUSTOM
TRANSLATORS>) happens in the middle of compilation (of a string