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Add qr/\p{Name=...}/
This accomplishes the same thing as \N{...}, but only for regex
patterns, using loose matching and only the official Unicode names.
This commit includes a comparison of the two approaches, added to
perlunicode. But the real reason to do this is as a way station to
being able to specify wild card lookup on the name property, coming in a
later commit.
I chose to not include user-defined aliases nor :short character names
at this time. I thought that there might be unforeseen consequences of
using them. It's better to later relax a requirement than to try to
restrict it.
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