package charnames; use strict; use warnings; use Carp; our $VERSION = '1.01'; use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits $charnames::hint_bits = 0x20000; my $txt; # This is not optimized in any way yet sub charnames { my $name = shift; ## Suck in the code/name list as a big string. ## Lines look like: ## "0052\t\tLATIN CAPITAL LETTER R\n" $txt = do "unicore/Name.pl" unless $txt; ## @off will hold the index into the code/name string of the start and ## end of the name as we find it. my @off; ## If :full, look for the the name exactly if ($^H{charnames_full} and $txt =~ /\t\t$name$/m) { @off = ($-[0], $+[0]); } ## If we didn't get above, and :short allowed, look for the short name. ## The short name is like "greek:Sigma" unless (@off) { if ($^H{charnames_short} and $name =~ /^(.+?):(.+)/s) { my ($script, $cname) = ($1,$2); my $case = ( $cname =~ /[[:upper:]]/ ? "CAPITAL" : "SMALL"); if ($txt =~ m/\t\t\U$script\E (?:$case )?LETTER \U$cname$/m) { @off = ($-[0], $+[0]); } } } ## If we still don't have it, check for the name among the loaded ## scripts. if (not @off) { my $case = ( $name =~ /[[:upper:]]/ ? "CAPITAL" : "SMALL"); for my $script ( @{$^H{charnames_scripts}} ) { if ($txt =~ m/\t\t$script (?:$case )?LETTER \U$name$/m) { @off = ($-[0], $+[0]); last; } } } ## If we don't have it by now, give up. die "Unknown charname '$name'" unless @off; ## ## Now know where in the string the name starts. ## The code, in hex, is befor that. ## ## The code can be 4-6 characters long, so we've got to sort of ## go look for it, just after the newline that comes before $off[0]. ## ## This would be much easier if unicore/Name.pl had info in ## a name/code order, instead of code/name order. ## ## The +1 after the rindex() is to skip past the newline we're finding, ## or, if the rindex() fails, to put us to an offset of zero. ## my $hexstart = rindex($txt, "\n", $off[0]) + 1; ## we know where it starts, so turn into number - the ordinal for the char. my $ord = hex substr($txt, $hexstart, $off[0] - $hexstart); if ($^H & $bytes::hint_bits) { # "use bytes" in effect? use bytes; return chr $ord if $ord <= 255; my $hex = sprintf '%X=0%o', $ord, $ord; my $fname = substr $txt, $off[0] + 2, $off[1] - $off[0] - 2; die "Character 0x$hex with name '$fname' is above 0xFF"; } return pack "U", $ord; } sub import { shift; ## ignore class name if (not @_) { carp("`use charnames' needs explicit imports list"); } $^H |= $charnames::hint_bits; $^H{charnames} = \&charnames ; ## ## fill %h keys with our @_ args. ## my %h; @h{@_} = (1) x @_; $^H{charnames_full} = delete $h{':full'}; $^H{charnames_short} = delete $h{':short'}; $^H{charnames_scripts} = [map uc, keys %h]; ## ## If utf8? warnings are enabled, and some scripts were given, ## see if at least we can find one letter of each script. ## if (warnings::enabled('utf8') && @{$^H{charnames_scripts}}) { $txt = do "unicore/Name.pl" unless $txt; for my $script (@{$^H{charnames_scripts}}) { if (not $txt =~ m/\t\t$script (?:CAPITAL |SMALL )?LETTER /) { warnings::warn('utf8', "No such script: '$script'"); } } } } sub viacode { if (@_ != 1) { carp "charnames::viacode() expects one numeric value"; return () } my $arg = shift; my $hex; if ($arg =~ m/^[0-9]+$/) { $hex = sprintf "%04X", $arg; } else { carp("unexpected arg \"$arg\" to charnames::viacode()"); return (); } $txt = do "unicore/Name.pl" unless $txt; if ($txt =~ m/^$hex\t\t(.+)/m) { return $1; } else { return (); } } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal escapes. =head1 SYNOPSIS use charnames ':full'; print "\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA} is called sigma.\n"; use charnames ':short'; print "\N{greek:Sigma} is an upper-case sigma.\n"; use charnames qw(cyrillic greek); print "\N{sigma} is Greek sigma, and \N{be} is Cyrillic b.\n"; print charname::viacode(0x1234); # prints "ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE SEE" =head1 DESCRIPTION Pragma C supports arguments C<:full>, C<:short> and script names. If C<:full> is present, for expansion of C<\N{CHARNAME}}> string C is first looked in the list of standard Unicode names of chars. If C<:short> is present, and C has the form C, then C is looked up as a letter in script C