Python: Get Unicode Name, Codepoint
Get Codepoint from Char
Get character's Unicode Codepoint .
from unicodedata import * # get codepoint of Unicode char in decimal print(ord("→") == 8594)
Get Name from Char
Find character's Unicode name.
from unicodedata import name print(name("→") == "RIGHTWARDS ARROW")
Get Char from Name
Get Unicode char of a given name.
from unicodedata import lookup x1 = lookup("GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA") print(x1 == "α") x2 = lookup("RIGHTWARDS ARROW") print(x2 == "→") x3 = lookup("CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5929") print(x3 == "天")
Here's python 2:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # python 2 from unicodedata import * char1 = lookup("GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA") print(char1.encode('utf-8')) # α char2 = lookup("RIGHTWARDS ARROW") print(char2.encode('utf-8')) # → char3 = lookup("CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5929") print(char3.encode('utf-8')) # 天
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Print a Range of Unicode Chars
Here's a example that prints a range of Unicode chars, with their ordinal in hex, and name.
Chars without a name are skipped. (some of such are undefined codepoints.)
from unicodedata import name xx = [] for i in range(945, 969): xx.append(eval('u"\\u%04x"' % i)) for x in xx: if name(x, "-") != "-": print(x, "|", "%04x" % (ord(x)), "|", name(x, "-")) # output # α | 03b1 | GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA # β | 03b2 | GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA # γ | 03b3 | GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA # δ | 03b4 | GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA # ε | 03b5 | GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON # ζ | 03b6 | GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA # η | 03b7 | GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA # θ | 03b8 | GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA # ι | 03b9 | GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA # κ | 03ba | GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA # λ | 03bb | GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA # μ | 03bc | GREEK SMALL LETTER MU # ν | 03bd | GREEK SMALL LETTER NU # ξ | 03be | GREEK SMALL LETTER XI # ο | 03bf | GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON # π | 03c0 | GREEK SMALL LETTER PI # ρ | 03c1 | GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO # ς | 03c2 | GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA # σ | 03c3 | GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA # τ | 03c4 | GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU # υ | 03c5 | GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON # φ | 03c6 | GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI # χ | 03c7 | GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI # ψ | 03c8 | GREEK SMALL LETTER PSI