Find out the unicode script of a character

Question

Given a unicode character what would be the simplest way to return its script (as \"Latin\", \"Hangul\" etc)? unicodedata doesn\'t seem to provide this kind of feature.

Answer 1

It seems to me that the Python unicodedata module contains tools for accessing the main file in the Unicode database but nothing for the other files: “The data in this database is based on the UnicodeData.txt file”

The script information is in the Scripts.txt file. It is of relatively simple format (described in UAX #44) and not horribly large (131 kilobytes), so you might consider parsing it in your program. Note that in the Unicode classification, there’s the “Common” script that contains characters used in different scripts, like punctuation marks.