NAME
unicode - command line unicode database query tool
SYNOPSIS
unicode [options] string
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the unicode command.
unicode is a command line unicode database query tool.
OPTIONS
-h --help
Show help and exit.
-x --hexadecimal
Assume string to be a hexadecimal number
-d --decimal
Assume string to be a decimal number
-r --regexp
Assume string to be a regular expression
-s --string
Assume string to be a sequence of characters
-a --auto
Try to guess type of string from one of the above (default)
-mMAXCOUNT
--max=MAXCOUNT
Maximal number of codepoints to display, default: 20; use 0 for
unlimited
-iCHARSET
--io=IOCHARSET
I/O character set. For maximal pleasure, run unicode on UTF-8
capable terminal and specify IOCHARSET to be UTF-8. unicode
tries to guess this value from your locale, so with properly set
up locale, you should not need to specify it.
-cADDCHARSET
--charset-add=ADDCHARSET
Show hexadecimal reprezentation of displayed characters in this
additional charset.
-CUSE_COLOUR
--colour=USE_COLOUR
USE_COLOUR is one of on off auto
--colour=on will use ANSI colour codes to colourise the output
--colour=off won’t use colours.
--colour=auto will test if standard output is a tty, and use
colours only when it is.
--color is a synonym of --colour
-v --verbose
Be more verbose about displayed characters, e.g. display Unihan
information, if available.
-w --wikipedia
Spawn browser pointing to Wikipedia entry about the character.
USAGE
unicode tries to guess the type of an argument. For example, you can
use any of the following to display information about U+00E1 LATIN
SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE (á):
unicode 00E1
unicode U+00E1
unicode á
unicode ’latin small letter a with acute’
You can specify a range of characters as argumets, unicode will show
these characters in nice tabular format, aligned to 256-byte
boundaries. Use two dots ".." to indicate the range, e.g.
unicode 0450..0520
will display the whole cyrillic and hebrew blocks (characters from
U+0400 to U+05FF)
unicode 0400..
will display just characters from U+0400 up to U+04FF
BUGS
Tabular format does not deal well with full-width, combining, control
and RTL characters.
SEE ALSO
ascii(1)
AUTHOR
Radovan Garabík <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>
2003-01-31