Documentation for routine uniname assembled from the following types:

class Cool

From Cool

(Cool) routine uniname

Defined as:

sub uniname(Str(Cool) --> Str)
method uniname(--> Str)

Interprets the invocant or first argument as a Str, and returns the Unicode codepoint name of the first codepoint of the first character. See uninames for a routine that works with multiple codepoints, and uniparse for the opposite direction.

# Camelia in Unicode
say ‘»ö«’.uniname;
# OUTPUT: «"RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK"␤»
say "Ḍ̇".uniname; # Note, doesn't show "COMBINING DOT ABOVE"
# OUTPUT: «"LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH DOT BELOW"␤»

# Find the char with the longest Unicode name.
say (0..0x1FFFF).sort(*.uniname.chars)[*-1].chr.uniname;
# OUTPUT: ««ARABIC LIGATURE UIGHUR KIRGHIZ YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE WITH ALEF MAKSURA INITIAL FORM␤»␤»