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Map characters to and from their name given in the Unicode standard. This goes to great lengths to be as efficient as possible in both time and space, with the full bidirectional tables weighing barely 500 KB but still offering O(1)* look-up in both directions. (*more precisely, O(length of name).)
Last release 29 days ago
08 Sep 2026
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8 years old
18 releases · first in 2018
Character aliases with spaces failed to resolve (see #60 for details).
Data: Update data to Unicode 17
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Use binary search in iter_str.rs
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Performance improvements:
iter_str.rsInternal:
2026-06-04
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iter_str.rsInternal:
In order to implement UAX#44 (see below) we had to change code generated by unicode_names2_generator in a way that was not compatible with unicode_nam
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unicode_names2_generator in a way thatunicode_names2 v1.3.0 (and vice-versa), forcing us to bumpunicode_names2_generator to v2.0.0. In order to keep them in sync, unicode_names2Feature:
Internal:
Data: Update data to Unicode 16
Data:
Make dependency on 'time' optional
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2024-03-10
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include required license texts in all published crates
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Fix support for platforms using CRLF ( #31 and #33 )
Add alias search fallback to character() ( #12 ) (this adds a dependency on the ph crate and is slightly slower when requesting an alias or non-existi
Feature:
ph crate and is slightly slower when requesting an aliasInternal:
Bump minimum Rust version from 1.48 to 1.63
Update data for Unicode 15
Fix panic when character() is passed a string over 88 chars
*2022-02-06* Data: * Update to Unicode 14.0.0
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