tomo-Text.from_codepoint_names.3

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   2 .\" Copyright (c) 2026 Bruce Hill
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   5 .TH Text.from_codepoint_names 3 2026-03-08 "Tomo man-pages"
   6 .SH NAME
   7 Text.from_codepoint_names \- convert list of unicode codepoint names to text
   8 .SH LIBRARY
   9 Tomo Standard Library
  10 .SH SYNOPSIS
  11 .nf
  12 .BI Text.from_codepoint_names\ :\ func(codepoint_names:\ [Text]\ ->\ [Text])
  13 .fi
  14 .SH DESCRIPTION
  15 Returns text that has the given codepoint names (according to the Unicode specification) as its codepoints.
  16 
  17 
  18 .SH ARGUMENTS
  19 
  20 .TS
  21 allbox;
  22 lb lb lbx
  23 l l l.
  24 Name	Type	Description
  25 codepoint_names	[Text]	The names of each codepoint in the desired text (case-insentive). 
  26 .TE
  27 .SH RETURN
  28 A new text with the specified codepoints after normalization has been applied. Any invalid names are ignored.
  29 
  30 .SH NOTES
  31 The text will be normalized, so the resulting text's codepoints may not exactly match the input codepoints.
  32 
  33 .SH EXAMPLES
  34 .EX
  35 text := Text.from_codepoint_names([
  36     "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE",
  37     "LATIN SMALL LETTER K",
  38     "LATIN SMALL LETTER E",
  39 ])
  40 assert text == "Åke"
  41 .EE
  42 .SH SEE ALSO
  43 .BR Tomo-Text (3)