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- package charnames;
- use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits
- $charnames::hint_bits = 0x20000;
-
- my $txt;
-
- # This is not optimized in any way yet
- sub charnames {
- $name = shift;
- $txt = do "unicode/Name.pl" unless $txt;
- my @off;
- if ($^H{charnames_full} and $txt =~ /\t\t$name$/m) {
- @off = ($-[0], $+[0]);
- }
- unless (@off) {
- if ($^H{charnames_short} and $name =~ /^(.*?):(.*)/s) {
- my ($script, $cname) = ($1,$2);
- my $case = ( $cname =~ /[[:upper:]]/ ? "CAPITAL" : "SMALL");
- if ($txt =~ m/\t\t\U$script\E (?:$case )?LETTER \U$cname$/m) {
- @off = ($-[0], $+[0]);
- }
- }
- }
- unless (@off) {
- my $case = ( $name =~ /[[:upper:]]/ ? "CAPITAL" : "SMALL");
- for ( @{$^H{charnames_scripts}} ) {
- (@off = ($-[0], $+[0])), last
- if $txt =~ m/\t\t$_ (?:$case )?LETTER \U$name$/m;
- }
- }
- die "Unknown charname '$name'" unless @off;
-
- my $ord = hex substr $txt, $off[0] - 4, 4;
- if ($^H & $bytes::hint_bits) { # "use bytes" in effect?
- use bytes;
- return chr $ord if $ord <= 255;
- my $hex = sprintf '%X=0%o', $ord, $ord;
- my $fname = substr $txt, $off[0] + 2, $off[1] - $off[0] - 2;
- die "Character 0x$hex with name '$fname' is above 0xFF";
- }
- return chr $ord;
- }
-
- sub import {
- shift;
- die "`use charnames' needs explicit imports list" unless @_;
- $^H |= $charnames::hint_bits;
- $^H{charnames} = \&charnames ;
- my %h;
- @h{@_} = (1) x @_;
- $^H{charnames_full} = delete $h{':full'};
- $^H{charnames_short} = delete $h{':short'};
- $^H{charnames_scripts} = [map uc, keys %h];
- }
-
-
- 1;
- __END__
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal escape.
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use charnames ':full';
- print "\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA} is called sigma.\n";
-
- use charnames ':short';
- print "\N{greek:Sigma} is an upper-case sigma.\n";
-
- use charnames qw(cyrillic greek);
- print "\N{sigma} is Greek sigma, and \N{be} is Cyrillic b.\n";
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- Pragma C<use charnames> supports arguments C<:full>, C<:short> and
- script names. If C<:full> is present, for expansion of
- C<\N{CHARNAME}}> string C<CHARNAME> is first looked in the list of
- standard Unicode names of chars. If C<:short> is present, and
- C<CHARNAME> has the form C<SCRIPT:CNAME>, then C<CNAME> is looked up
- as a letter in script C<SCRIPT>. If pragma C<use charnames> is used
- with script name arguments, then for C<\N{CHARNAME}}> the name
- C<CHARNAME> is looked up as a letter in the given scripts (in the
- specified order).
-
- For lookup of C<CHARNAME> inside a given script C<SCRIPTNAME>
- this pragma looks for the names
-
- SCRIPTNAME CAPITAL LETTER CHARNAME
- SCRIPTNAME SMALL LETTER CHARNAME
- SCRIPTNAME LETTER CHARNAME
-
- in the table of standard Unicode names. If C<CHARNAME> is lowercase,
- then the C<CAPITAL> variant is ignored, otherwise the C<SMALL> variant is
- ignored.
-
- =head1 CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
-
- The mechanism of translation of C<\N{...}> escapes is general and not
- hardwired into F<charnames.pm>. A module can install custom
- translations (inside the scope which C<use>s the module) with the
- following magic incantation:
-
- use charnames (); # for $charnames::hint_bits
- sub import {
- shift;
- $^H |= $charnames::hint_bits;
- $^H{charnames} = \&translator;
- }
-
- Here translator() is a subroutine which takes C<CHARNAME> as an
- argument, and returns text to insert into the string instead of the
- C<\N{CHARNAME}> escape. Since the text to insert should be different
- in C<bytes> mode and out of it, the function should check the current
- state of C<bytes>-flag as in:
-
- use bytes (); # for $bytes::hint_bits
- sub translator {
- if ($^H & $bytes::hint_bits) {
- return bytes_translator(@_);
- }
- else {
- return utf8_translator(@_);
- }
- }
-
- =head1 BUGS
-
- Since evaluation of the translation function happens in a middle of
- compilation (of a string literal), the translation function should not
- do any C<eval>s or C<require>s. This restriction should be lifted in
- a future version of Perl.
-
- =cut
-