> Also, is it intentional that there is no \N{U+HHHH} syntax...? Uhhh. What I meant to ask that "was it intentional to use the \N{U+...} syntax, since currently there is no such syntax". I blame low caffeine levels.
> That was planned at some point but as of there is no such thing: > > ../perl -Ilib -Ilib -Mcharnames=:full -e '"\N{U+20ac}"' > Unknown charname 'U+20ac' at lib/unicore/Name.pl line 1 That being said, there is now such a thing. Or will be as soon as I check in the change. > Why not just use \x{HHHH...}? If that's PERLQQ, that's what > I would expect? If you wanted to used \N{}, there's charnames::viacode() $ ./perl -Ilib -Mcharnames=:full -le 'print "\\N{", charnames::viacode(0x263a), "}"' \N{WHITE SMILING FACE} $ though for unnamed ones I think I have to do something (like use \N{U+HHHH}): $ ./perl -Ilib -Mcharnames=:full -le 'print "\\N{", charnames::viacode(0x3040), "}"' \N{} $ -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen