Thank you, Martin!

That looks like it will let me handle more or less anything if the pubs team decides to start marching through Unicode for footnote callouts.

On Mon, May 25, 2026, at 11:16, Martin Honnen via BaseX-Talk wrote:

On 25/05/2026 17:03, Graydon Saunders via BaseX-Talk wrote:
>
> I am currently exploring what to do when a footnote callout, which
> will wind up in an xs:ID value, is something like U+2020 DAGGER; one
> obvious way is to use the character name. (So instead of an @id value
> of `Fn1` I'd have `Fndagger` or similar.)
>
> I see that the current draft of XPath 4.0 has new-since-3.0
> `characters()` and `grapheme()` functions, but so far as I may tell it
> does not have a way to get UCD properties for a codepoint.
>
> Is there an XQuery (or BaseX) way to do this?
>

You can call Java

declare namespace character = "java:java.lang.Character";

character:getName(0x2020)