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# nameAlias

The normative formal alias of the scalar.

```
var nameAlias: String? { get }
```

## Discussion

The name of a scalar is immutable and never changed in future versions of
the Unicode Standard. The `nameAlias` property is provided to issue
corrections if a name was issued erroneously. For example, the `name` of
U+FE18 is “PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRAKCET”
(note that “BRAKCET” is misspelled). The `nameAlias` property then
contains the corrected name.

If a scalar has no alias, this property is `nil`.

This property corresponds to the “Name_Alias” property in the
[Unicode Standard](http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/).

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