Yes, my gmail client transformed unicodata . name to a url. I hope the mobile gmail client won't do it here.
Yes current version is 11. I noticed it after sending the mail, I've compared to the version 6 and all my arguments are still valid (they just added some characters in the "correction" set). As I'm at, I mentionned the ffef character but we don't care about it because it already has a name, so that's mostly a control character issue. Yes a new function name is also what I prefer but I thought it would clutter the unicodata namespace. I like your alias(...) function, with that one, an application could code my function like try name(x) expect alias(x).abbreviations[0]. If the abbreviation list is sorted by AdditionToUnicodeDate. However, having a standard canonical name for all character in the stdlib would help people choosing the same convention. A new function like "canonical_name" or a shorter name would be an idea. Instead of name(char, abbreviation=True, correction=False) I would have Imagined a "default_behavior" ala csv.dialect such that name(char, default_bevior=unicodata.first_abbreviation) would use my algorithm. first_abbreviation would be a enum, or like in csv.dialect a class like : class first_abbreviation: abbreviation = True; correction = False; ... But I guess that's too specific, abbreviation=True would mean "take the first abbreviation in the list".
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