#!/usr/bin/env python """For each argument on the command line, look for it in the set of all Unicodenames.  Arguments are treated as case-insensitive regular expressions, e.g.:     % find-uname 'small letter a$' 'horizontal line'    *** small letter a$ matches ***    LATIN SMALL LETTER A (97)    COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER A (867)    CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A (1072)    PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER A (9372)    CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A (9424)    FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER A (65345)    *** horizontal line matches ***    HORIZONTAL LINE EXTENSION (9135)""" import unicodedataimport sysimport re def main(args):    unicode_names= []    for ix in range(sys.maxunicode+1):        try:            unicode_names.append( (ix, unicodedata.name(unichr(ix))) )        except ValueError: # no name for the character            pass    for arg in args:        pat = re.compile(arg, re.I)        matches = [(x,y) for (x,y) in unicode_names                       if pat.search(y) is not None]        if matches:            print "***", arg, "matches", "***"            for (x,y) in matches:                print "%s (%d)" % (y,x) if __name__ == "__main__":    main(sys.argv[1:])