From 6248bbbd69fc6f9ad1420a7f89b7e6bf7bcd8c17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cosimo Lupo <cosimo.lupo@daltonmaag.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:13:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [unicode] attempt to import `unicodedata2` backport module

As suggested by Adam @twardoch in https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/issues/83#issuecomment-139052095
---
 Lib/fontTools/unicode.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/unicode.py b/Lib/fontTools/unicode.py
index b5990516b..50dfc5392 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/unicode.py
@@ -30,7 +30,12 @@ class _UnicodeCustom(object):
 class _UnicodeBuiltin(object):
 
 	def __getitem__(self, charCode):
-		import unicodedata
+		try:
+			# use unicodedata backport to python2, if available:
+			# https://github.com/mikekap/unicodedata2
+			import unicodedata2 as unicodedata
+		except ImportError: 
+			import unicodedata
 		try:
 			return unicodedata.name(unichr(charCode))
 		except ValueError: