$ perl -v | head -2 | tail -1 This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 0 (v5.24.0) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level #### $ perl -C -E 'say "\N{alpha}"' Unknown charname 'alpha' at -e line 1, within string Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. #### use charnames qw(greek); #### $ perl -E 'use charnames (); say $charnames::VERSION' 1.43 #### $ perl -MUnicode::UCD=charprops_all -E 'say charprops_all("U+$_")->{Age} for qw{3b1 df a3}' V1_1 V1_1 V1_1