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icu

Select bindings to the ICU unicode library.

Introduction

This library is partially inspired by [https://docs.python.org/3/library/unicodedata.html|Python's unicodedata library]. As it deals with unicode, it also reexports the utf8 egg for ease of use.

Procedures

[procedure] (char-from-name name)

Return char corresponding to string name name. name is passed through string-upcase.

(char-from-name "fire") ;; => #\x1f525
(char-from-name "FIRE") ;; => #\x1f525

[procedure] (char-string-name char)

Returns string name for char.

(char-string-name #\x1f525) ;; => "FIRE"