Perl Unicode Cookbook: Get Character Number by Name

Apr 13, 2012 by Tom Christiansen

℞ 7: Get character number by name

Unicode allows you to refer to characters by number or by name. Computers don’t care, but humans do. When you have a character name, you can translate it to its number with the charnames pragma:

 use charnames ();
my $number = charnames::vianame("GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA");

This is, of course, the opposite of Get Character Names by Number.

See Characters and Their Numbers to translate from this number to the appropriate character.

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