Each Unicode character may have two different names: a deprecated name, as defined by Unicode 1.0, and a standard name, as defined in subsequent versions of the standard. These names are defined in the Unicode Character Database. For example, the standard name for the Unicode space character (U+0020) is SPACE.

RWUCharTraits provides the static method RWUCharTraits::getName(), which returns the name of the character represented by a given code point as an RWCString. An optional, second argument, getDeprecatedName, indicates whether the method should return the deprecated name for the character. The default value is false.

Conversely, RWUCharTraits::getChar32() returns the code point for the Unicode character with a given name. An optional, second argument, isDeprecatedName, indicates whether a given name is the deprecated name for the character. The default value is false.