#!/usr/bin/env python

"""

For each argument on the command line, look for it in the set of all Unicode

names.  Arguments are treated as case-insensitive regular expressions, e.g.:

    % find-uname 'small letter a$' 'horizontal line'

    *** small letter a$ matches ***

    LATIN SMALL LETTER A (97)

    COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER A (867)

    CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A (1072)

    PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER A (9372)

    CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A (9424)

    FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER A (65345)

    *** horizontal line matches ***

    HORIZONTAL LINE EXTENSION (9135)

"""

import unicodedata

import sys

import re

def main(args):

    unicode_names= []

    for ix in range(sys.maxunicode+1):

        try:

            unicode_names.append( (ix, unicodedata.name(unichr(ix))) )

        except ValueError: # no name for the character

            pass

    for arg in args:

        pat = re.compile(arg, re.I)

        matches = [(x,y) for (x,y) in unicode_names

                       if pat.search(y) is not None]

        if matches:

            print "***", arg, "matches", "***"

            for (x,y) in matches:

                print "%s (%d)" % (y,x)

if __name__ == "__main__":

    main(sys.argv[1:])