unicode

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Overview

Unicode is a command-line tool for studying Unicode characters.

usage: unicode [-c] [-d] [-n] [-t]

-c: args are hex; output characters (xyz)
-n: args are characters; output hex (23 or 23-44)
-g: args are regular expressions for matching names
-d: output textual description
-t: output plain text, not one char per line
-U: output full Unicode description

Default behavior sniffs the arguments to select -c vs. -n.