I wonder if this should also support the special labels for characters without names:<div><br></div><div><div>control-NNNN</div><div>reserved-NNNN</div><div>noncharacter-NNNN</div><div>private-use-NNNN</div><div>surrogate-NNNN</div>

<div><br></div><div>see p. 138 of <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch04.pdf">http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch04.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>I would think that <a href="http://unicodedata.name">unicodedata.name</a> should not return these, but perhaps unicodedata.lookup should accept them. Note that the doc says that these are frequently displayed enclosed in &lt;&gt;, so perhaps</div>

<div><br></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">unicodedata.lookup(&#39;U+0001&#39;)</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">== unicodedata.lookup(&#39;control-0001&#39;) </font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">== unicodedata.lookup(&#39;&lt;control-0001&gt;&#39;)</font></div>

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