Does anyone know if the browser exposes an API to convert unicode characters (e.g. "÷") to their friendly names (e.g. "division sign")? 
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Replying to @feross
I doubt there is built-in for that, but you can autogenerate what you need from http://unicode.org/Public/9.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt …
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Replying to @RReverser @feross
Or directly from http://unicode.org/Public/9.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt …
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Replying to @RReverser @feross
There are some live APIs around too, like https://codepoints.net/api/v1/codepoint/fdfd … [
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or lazy-loading
@mathias' unicode-data library, if you need lots of lookups: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/node-unicode-data …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Replying to @CodepointsNet @FakeUnicode and
require('unicode-9.0.0/Names/index.js').get('÷'.codePointAt()) // 'DIVISION SIGN'
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