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{}
$
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