Unicode character by name

Question

It is possible in julia 0.6 obtain the unicode character by its name?

In python it is possible by doing

s = u'\N{SECTION SIGN}'

There is something alike? I know I can do

s =  '\u00a3'

but I want to do it by name.

Thank you

Answer 1

StringLiterals.jl lets you do this.

via s = f"\N{SECTION SIGN}"

StringLiterals.jl was just registered the other day. You can install it via Pkg.add("StringLiterals")

Examples

julia> using StringLiterals

julia> s = f"\N{SECTION SIGN}" #Unicode Entity
"§"

julia> f"\N{SNOWMAN}" #Unicode Entity
"☃"

julia> f"\:mage:" #Emoji Entity 
"\U1f9d9"

julia> f"\<sun>" #LaTeX Entity
"☼"

julia> f"\&euro;" # HTML Entity
"€"