#! /usr/bin/python2.7
"""
For each argument on the command line, look for it in the set of all Unicode
names. Arguments are treated as case-insensitive regular expressions, e.g.:
% find-uname 'small letter a$' 'horizontal line'
*** small letter a$ matches ***
LATIN SMALL LETTER A (97)
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER A (867)
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A (1072)
PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER A (9372)
CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A (9424)
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER A (65345)
*** horizontal line matches ***
HORIZONTAL LINE EXTENSION (9135)
"""
import unicodedata
import sys
import re
def main(args):
unicode_names = []
for ix in range(sys.maxunicode+1):
try:
unicode_names.append((ix, unicodedata.name(unichr(ix))))
except ValueError: # no name for the character
pass
for arg in args:
pat = re.compile(arg, re.I)
matches = [(y,x) for (x,y) in unicode_names
if pat.search(y) is not None]
if matches:
print "***", arg, "matches", "***"
for match in matches:
print "%s (%d)" % match
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv[1:])
