In Cool§
See primary documentation in context for routine uniname
sub uniname(Str(Cool) --> Str)method uniname(--> Str)
Interprets the invocant or first argument as a Str
, and returns the Unicode codepoint name of the first codepoint of the first character. See uninames for a routine that works with multiple codepoints, and uniparse for the opposite direction.
# Camelia in Unicodesay ‘»ö«’.uniname;# OUTPUT: «RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK»say "Ḍ̇".uniname; # Note, doesn't show "COMBINING DOT ABOVE"# OUTPUT: «LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH DOT BELOW»# Find the char with the longest Unicode name.say (0..0x1FFFF).sort(*.uniname.chars)[].chr.uniname;# OUTPUT: «BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER CENTRE TO MIDDLE RIGHT AND MIDDLE LEFT TO LOWER CENTRE»
Available as of the 2021.04 Rakudo compiler release.