On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> wrote: > Does anyone know offhand whether the Unicode Consortium has an explicit > policy against use of punctuation in a charname? So far they only > seem to use hyphen and parens, but I wonder to what extent we can > depend on that... >
According to the 5.0.0 standard, section 4.8: "Unicode character names contain only uppercase Latin letters A through Z, digits, space, and hyphen-minus." So it seems the notes in parentheses are not considered part of the char name. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>
