Every so often, I have to identify or research some Unicode characters. There’s a tool called uni1 in the Perl 5 distribution App::Uni,2 developed by Audrey Tang and Ricardo Signes.
Let’s reimplement its basic functionality in a few lines of Raku code and use that as an occasion to talk about Unicode support in Raku
If you give it one character on the command line, it prints out a description of the following character:
$ uni њ
њ - U+0045a - CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE
If you give it a longer string instead, it searches in the list of Unicode character names and prints out the same information for each ...
