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nameAlias

The normative formal alias of the scalar.

Declaration

var nameAlias: String? { get }

Discussion

The name of a scalar is immutable and never changed in future versions of the Unicode Standard. The nameAlias property is provided to issue corrections if a name was issued erroneously. For example, the name of U+FE18 is “PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRAKCET” (note that “BRAKCET” is misspelled). The nameAlias property then contains the corrected name.

If a scalar has no alias, this property is nil.

This property corresponds to the “Name_Alias” property in the Unicode Standard.