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: 15.0 (September 2022)
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
MIT License
- Copyright (C) 2017-2023 Jan Lelis https://janlelis.com. Released under the MIT license.
- Unicode data: https://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1