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1 package charnames;
2 use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits
3 use warnings();
4 $charnames::hint_bits = 0x20000;
6 my $txt;
8 # This is not optimized in any way yet
9 sub charnames {
10 $name = shift;
11 $txt = do "unicode/Name.pl" unless $txt;
12 my @off;
13 if ($^H{charnames_full} and $txt =~ /\t\t$name$/m) {
14 @off = ($-[0], $+[0]);
16 unless (@off) {
17 if ($^H{charnames_short} and $name =~ /^(.*?):(.*)/s) {
18 my ($script, $cname) = ($1,$2);
19 my $case = ( $cname =~ /[[:upper:]]/ ? "CAPITAL" : "SMALL");
20 if ($txt =~ m/\t\t\U$script\E (?:$case )?LETTER \U$cname$/m) {
21 @off = ($-[0], $+[0]);
25 unless (@off) {
26 my $case = ( $name =~ /[[:upper:]]/ ? "CAPITAL" : "SMALL");
27 for ( @{$^H{charnames_scripts}} ) {
28 (@off = ($-[0], $+[0])), last
29 if $txt =~ m/\t\t$_ (?:$case )?LETTER \U$name$/m;
32 die "Unknown charname '$name'" unless @off;
34 my $hexlen = 4; # Unicode guarantees 4-, 5-, or 6-digit format
35 $hexlen++ while
36 $hexlen < 6 && substr($txt, $off[0] - $hexlen - 1, 1) =~ /[0-9a-f]/;
37 my $ord = hex substr $txt, $off[0] - $hexlen, $hexlen;
38 if ($^H & $bytes::hint_bits) { # "use bytes" in effect?
39 use bytes;
40 return chr $ord if $ord <= 255;
41 my $hex = sprintf '%X=0%o', $ord, $ord;
42 my $fname = substr $txt, $off[0] + 2, $off[1] - $off[0] - 2;
43 die "Character 0x$hex with name '$fname' is above 0xFF";
45 return chr $ord;
48 sub import {
49 shift;
50 die "`use charnames' needs explicit imports list" unless @_;
51 $^H |= $charnames::hint_bits;
52 $^H{charnames} = \&charnames ;
53 my %h;
54 @h{@_} = (1) x @_;
55 $^H{charnames_full} = delete $h{':full'};
56 $^H{charnames_short} = delete $h{':short'};
57 $^H{charnames_scripts} = [map uc, keys %h];
58 if (warnings::enabled('utf8') && @{$^H{charnames_scripts}}) {
59 $txt = do "unicode/Name.pl" unless $txt;
60 for (@{$^H{charnames_scripts}}) {
61 warnings::warn('utf8', "No such script: '$_'") unless
62 $txt =~ m/\t\t$_ (?:CAPITAL |SMALL )?LETTER /;
69 __END__
71 =head1 NAME
73 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal escape.
75 =head1 SYNOPSIS
77 use charnames ':full';
78 print "\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA} is called sigma.\n";
80 use charnames ':short';
81 print "\N{greek:Sigma} is an upper-case sigma.\n";
83 use charnames qw(cyrillic greek);
84 print "\N{sigma} is Greek sigma, and \N{be} is Cyrillic b.\n";
86 =head1 DESCRIPTION
88 Pragma C<use charnames> supports arguments C<:full>, C<:short> and
89 script names. If C<:full> is present, for expansion of
90 C<\N{CHARNAME}}> string C<CHARNAME> is first looked in the list of
91 standard Unicode names of chars. If C<:short> is present, and
92 C<CHARNAME> has the form C<SCRIPT:CNAME>, then C<CNAME> is looked up
93 as a letter in script C<SCRIPT>. If pragma C<use charnames> is used
94 with script name arguments, then for C<\N{CHARNAME}}> the name
95 C<CHARNAME> is looked up as a letter in the given scripts (in the
96 specified order).
98 For lookup of C<CHARNAME> inside a given script C<SCRIPTNAME>
99 this pragma looks for the names
101 SCRIPTNAME CAPITAL LETTER CHARNAME
102 SCRIPTNAME SMALL LETTER CHARNAME
103 SCRIPTNAME LETTER CHARNAME
105 in the table of standard Unicode names. If C<CHARNAME> is lowercase,
106 then the C<CAPITAL> variant is ignored, otherwise the C<SMALL> variant is
107 ignored.
109 =head1 CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
111 The mechanism of translation of C<\N{...}> escapes is general and not
112 hardwired into F<charnames.pm>. A module can install custom
113 translations (inside the scope which C<use>s the module) with the
114 following magic incantation:
116 use charnames (); # for $charnames::hint_bits
117 sub import {
118 shift;
119 $^H |= $charnames::hint_bits;
120 $^H{charnames} = \&translator;
123 Here translator() is a subroutine which takes C<CHARNAME> as an
124 argument, and returns text to insert into the string instead of the
125 C<\N{CHARNAME}> escape. Since the text to insert should be different
126 in C<bytes> mode and out of it, the function should check the current
127 state of C<bytes>-flag as in:
129 use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits
130 sub translator {
131 if ($^H & $bytes::hint_bits) {
132 return bytes_translator(@_);
134 else {
135 return utf8_translator(@_);
139 =head1 BUGS
141 Since evaluation of the translation function happens in a middle of
142 compilation (of a string literal), the translation function should not
143 do any C<eval>s or C<require>s. This restriction should be lifted in
144 a future version of Perl.
146 =cut