Unicode::Name [version] [travis]

Return Unicode codepoint names, aliases, and labels.

Unicode version: 10.0.0

Supported Rubies: 2.5, 2.4, 2.3

Old Rubies that might still work: 2.2, 2.1, 2.0

Usage

require "unicode/name"

# Name
Unicode::Name.of "A" # => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A"
Unicode::Name.of "🚑" # => "AERIAL TRAMWAY"
Unicode::Name.of "丁" # => "CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E01"
Unicode::Name.of "ν•œ" # => "HANGUL SYLLABLE HAN"

# Aliases, by type
Unicode::Name.aliases "\t" # => {:control=>["CHARACTER TABULATION", "HORIZONTAL TABULATION"],
                                 :abbreviation=>["HT", "TAB"]}

# Corrections (via .aliases[:correction], then name)
Unicode::Name.correct "A" # => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A"
Unicode::Name.correct "Ζ’" # => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GHA"

# Codepoint labels
Unicode::Name.label("\0") # => "<control-0000>"
Unicode::Name.label("\u{D800}") # => "<surrogate-D800>"
Unicode::Name.label("\u{FFFFF}") # => "<noncharacter-FFFFF>"
Unicode::Name.label("\u{10C50}") # => "<reserved-10C50>"

# Best readable representation
Unicode::Name.readable("A") # => "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A"
Unicode::Name.readable("\0") # => "NULL"
Unicode::Name.readable("\u{FFFFD}") # => "<private-use-FFFFD>"

See unicode-x for more Unicode related micro libraries.

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