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Unicode::SequenceName

Returns the name of a Unicode codepoint sequence (= more than one codepoint involved), if one exists.

Unicode version: 15.1.0 (September 2023)

Emoji version: 15.1 (September 2023)

IVD version: 2022-09-13 (September 2022)

Supported Rubies: 3.2, 3.1, 3.0

Old Rubies which might still work: 2.X

Usage

require "unicode/sequence_name"

Unicode::SequenceName.of "‼︎" # => "DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK (text style)"
Unicode::SequenceName.of "㓟︀" # => "CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F81F"
Unicode::SequenceName.of "င︀" # => "MYANMAR LETTER NGA (dotted form)"
Unicode::SequenceName.of "நி" # => "TAMIL SYLLABLE NI"
Unicode::SequenceName.of "🇺🇳" # => "Flag: UNITED NATIONS"
Unicode::SequenceName.of "🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿" # => "SCOTLAND"
Unicode::SequenceName.of "🧑‍🦱" # => "PERSON: CURLY HAIR"
Unicode::SequenceName.of "👨‍🍼" # => "MAN FEEDING BABY"
Unicode::SequenceName.of "❤️‍🔥" # => "HEART ON FIRE"
Unicode::SequenceName.of "🫱🏻‍🫲🏾" # => "HANDSHAKE: LIGHT SKIN TONE, MEDIUM-DARK SKIN TONE"
Unicode::SequenceName.of "🐦‍⬛" # => "BLACK BIRD"
Unicode::SequenceName.of "🙂‍↔️" # => "HEAD SHAKING HORIZONTALLY"

Names for singular codepoints are not included, you can use unicode-name for that purpose.

Also See

uniscribe - cli utility that makes use of unicode_sequence-name
unicode-x - more Unicode related micro libraries

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Copyright (C) 2017-2023 Jan Lelis https://janlelis.com. Released under the MIT license.
Unicode data: https://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1

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main » require "unicode/sequence_name"
=> true
main » Unicode::SequenceName.of 'ﺍ'
=> nil
main » Unicode::SequenceName.of "‼︎"
=> "DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK (text style)"
main » Unicode::SequenceName.of "a"
=> nil
main » Unicode::SequenceName.of "X"
=> nil
main » Unicode::SequenceName.of "நி"
=> "TAMIL SYLLABLE NI"
main » Unicode::SequenceName.of "م"
=> nil

Curiously enough the uniscribe tool works quite well with all of these.

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