# unicode_names2
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Time and memory efficiently mapping characters to and from their
Unicode 8.0 names, at runtime and compile-time.
```rust
extern crate unicode_names2;
fn main() {
println!("☃ is called {}", unicode_names2::name('☃')); // SNOWMAN
println!("{} is happy", unicode_names2::character("white smiling face")); // ☺
// (NB. case insensitivity)
}
```
The maps are compressed using similar tricks to Python's `unicodedata`
module, although those here are about 70KB (12%) smaller.
[**Documentation**](https://docs.rs/unicode_names2)