Merge pull request #2349 from SnoopJeDi/feature/optional-unicodedata2-support

unicode_info: Use unicodedata2, if available

Author: dgw

sopel/modules/unicode_info.py

@@ -8,10 +8,14 @@
 """
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import unicodedata
-
 from sopel import plugin
 
+# unicodedata2 can provide a more-modern UCD than the one that comes with Python, use it if present
+try:
+    import unicodedata2 as unicodedata
+except ImportError:
+    import unicodedata
+
 
 def get_codepoint_name(char):
     """Retrieve the code point (and name, if possible) for a given character"""