py-cooperhewitt-unicode

Tools for working with Unicode data.

Example

cooperhewitt.unicode.names

import cooperhewitt.unicode.names as names
import sys

input = sys.argv[1:]
input = " ".join(input)

input = input.decode('utf-8')

ref = names.lookup()

for char in input:
    name = ref.name(char)
    print "%s is %s" % (char, name)

Scripts

ucd-name

Display the Unicode name for one or more characters

/usr/local/bin/ucd-name ☃
SNOWMAN

/usr/local/bin/ucd-name ☈ 
THUNDERSTORM

/usr/local/bin/ucd-name Mr ☃!
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
LATIN SMALL LETTER R
SPACE
SNOWMAN
EXCLAMATION MARK

build-ucd-lookup

Fetch UCD data and export as a JSON dictionary mapping hex value to Unicode name

/usr/local/bin/build-ucd-lookup > data/lookup.json

See also

• https://github.com/cooperhewitt/go-ucd
• https://github.com/cooperhewitt/plumbing-ucd-server
• http://unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/