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Created July 25, 2016 17:54
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Generates a list of Unicode code points sorted by name length
#!/usr/bin/env python
import unicodedata
chars = []
for c in xrange(0,0x10FFFF):
try:
name = unicodedata.name(unichr(c))
chars.append((c,name))
except:
pass
chars.sort(key=lambda a: len(a[1]))
print '\n'.join('U+{:06X} {}'.format(c, name) for c, name in chars)
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