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

The only way I know of is unfortunately to get the Unicode code point with ord() and then use your own table (by using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Standardized_subsets and more). A preliminary conversion to some normal form may be in order, so as to handle the fact that a single "written" character can be expressed with different sequences of code points (the unicodedata module helps, here).