Re: The name of the character

A google search for a table of Unicode character names found http://unicode.org/charts/charindex.html. The name given for character code ~~007D~~ 007B is "brace, opening".

UPDATE: Corrected character code. See WW's comments for additional corrections and details.

Bill

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Re^2: The name of the character by ww (Archbishop) on Aug 07, 2015 at 13:11 UTC
Not so: "brace, opening" is listed as 007B. That table names 007D (0x007d) as "RIGHT CORNER BRACKET," "CURLY BRACKET, RIGHT," "bracket, closing curly," & "brace, closing." None of those match the opening paren the OP asked about. Update: "PARENTHESIS, LEFT" and "parenthesis, opening" (and perhaps others?) are listed as "0028." The difference in words and capitalization is explained by the nice folks who built the chart (based on "The Unicode Standard, Version 8.0") at http://www.unicode.org/charts/aboutcharindex.html which characterizes lower-case listings as "Alternative character names (aliases)" while all-UPPER listings are "Formal character names."	[reply]
Re^3: The name of the character by shmem (Chancellor) on Aug 07, 2015 at 14:05 UTC
by the nice folks who built the chart just a note, the folks who built the Unicode Standard are equally nice folks, wise guys and a bit funny too, which is consistent with F00 (0xf00) being ༀ - the holy syllable OM in tibetan writing. Mind this, every time you use `$foo`, `$f00` or such.. perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'	[reply] [d/l] [select]