IMHO something like the Perl 5
charnames::viacode(ord($char));
charnames::vianame($charname);
is needed in Perl 6.
Use cases:
- test
- diagnosis
- manipulation on charname-level (e.g. get base character of
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE, which has no de-composition)
To be defined (TBD):
- naming
- works on and returns String/List versus single Char
- works on resp. returns ord versus char
Obviously it cannot work on Grapheme level, because Graphemes without a
pre-composition do not have a character name[1].
[1] It would be possible to compose character names for the life-time of
the process, but these names would need to be checked for uniqueness
(performance problem).
Helmut Wollmersdorfer
