strangedoc wrote:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Unicode::UCD qw' charinfo ';
my $k = chr 12794; # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_%28kana%29
print Dumper( {
    ord => ord $k,
    chr => $k,
    charinfo => charinfo(ord $k),
}), "\n";
__END__
$VAR1 = {
          'charinfo' => {
                          'digit' => '',
                          'bidi' => 'L',
                          'category' => 'Lo',
                          'code' => '31FA',
                          'script' => 'Katakana',
                          'combining' => 0,
                          'upper' => '',
                          'name' => 'KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU',
                          'unicode10' => '',
                          'decomposition' => '',
                          'comment' => '',
                          'mirrored' => 'N',
                          'lower' => '',
                          'numeric' => '',
                          'decimal' => '',
                          'title' => '',
                          'block' => 'Katakana Phonetic Extensions'
                        },
          'chr' => "\x{31fa}",
          'ord' => 12794
        };
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Just to demonstrate how much nicer to look at, and more convenient all around, that the CPAN Data::Dump module is for actually dumping out data than the woefully standard Data::Dumper module is, here is the same code written to use the other module:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Unicode::UCD qw(charinfo);
use Data::Dump;

my $k = chr 12794; 

dd {
    ord         =>          ord $k,
    chr         =>              $k,
    charinfo     => charinfo(ord $k),
};
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And here is the lovely output:

{
  charinfo => {
    bidi          => "L",
    block         => "Katakana Phonetic Extensions",
    category      => "Lo",
    code          => "31FA",
    combining     => 0,
    comment       => "",
    decimal       => "",
    decomposition => "",
    digit         => "",
    lower         => "",
    mirrored      => "N",
    name          => "KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU",
    numeric       => "",
    script        => "Katakana",
    title         => "",
    unicode10     => "",
    upper         => "",
  },
  chr => "\x{31FA}",
  ord => 12794,
}
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Isn’t that a lot easier on hand and eye?