A tiny utility to get the Unicode block of a character
This module provides only one ability that is absent from the built-in module unicodedata.
It contains one function, block(), which returns the name of a
Unicode block that a character belongs to.
You may also access basic Unicode block information by getting items from BLOCKS_BYNAME.
tinyunicodeblock is available on PyPi.
It requires a Python version of at least 3.7.0. and depends on no packages.
To install with pip:
python -m pip install tinyunicodeblock
To install through Git:
python -m pip install git+https://gitlab.com/whoatemybutter/tinyunicodeblock.git
Only one function is publicly available, block(character).
It will return the name of a Unicode block that character belongs to.
Block ranges are also available in the BLOCKS_BYNAME dictionary.
>>> import tinyunicodeblock
>>> tinyunicodeblock.block("a")
'Basic Latin'
>>> tinyunicodeblock.block("\ufdfd")
'Arabic Presentation Forms-A'
>>> tinyunicodeblock.block("\ue845")
'Private Use Area'
>>> tinyunicodeblock.BLOCKS_BYNAME["Basic Latin"]
(0, 127)
Since v1.2, tinyunicodeblocks contains support for the ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR).
It is available through the variables CSUR and CSUR_BYNAME.
The function block() will optionally include CSUR blocks in its results if the argument include_csur=True is passed to it.
>>> tinyunicodeblock.block("\ue845", include_csur=True)
'Dni'
>>> tinyunicodeblock.block("\ue400", include_csur=True)
'Niskloz'
>>> tinyunicodeblock.block("\uf800", include_csur=True)
'Private Use Area'
tinyunicodeblocks does not contain support for the Under-ConScript Unicode Registry (UCSUR).
The changelog is at CHANGELOG.md.
tinyunicodeblock v1.2 and above is licensed under
MIT.
tinyunicodeblock v1.1 and below is licensed under
GNU General Public License 3.0 or later.
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A tiny utility to get the Unicode block of a character
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