unicode

Documentation

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.

For some options you will need UnicodeData.txt installed. Use curl or wget or your favorite webirific tool to copy

ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt

to

$GOPATH/src/robpike.io/cmd/unicode