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

       -o     --octal

              Assume string to be an octal number

       -b     --binary

              Assume string to be a binary 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.

       --fcp=CHARSET
              --fromcp=CHARSET

              Convert  numerical  arguments from this encoding, default: no conversion.  Multibyte encodings are
              supported. This is ignored for non-numerical arguments.

       -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 English Wikipedia entry about the character.

       --wt   --wiktionary

              Spawn browser pointing to English Wiktionary entry about the character.

       --brief

              Display character information in brief format

       --format=fmt

              Use your own format for character information display. See the README for details.

       --list

              List (approximately) all known encodings.

USAGE

       unicode tries to guess the type of an argument. In particular,  if  the  arguments  looks  like  a  valid
       hexadecimal representation of a Unicode codepoint, it will be considered to be such. Using

       unicode face

       will display information about U+FACE CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FACE, and it will not search for 'face'
       in character descriptions - for the latter, use:

       unicode -r face

       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

       Use --fromcp to query codepoints from other encodings:

       unicode --fromcp cp1250 -d 200

       Multibyte encodings are supported: unicode --fromcp big5 -x aff3

       and multi-char strings are supported, too:

       unicode --fromcp utf-8 -x c599c3adc5a5

BUGS

       Tabular format does not deal well with full-width, combining, control and RTL characters.

SEE ALSO

       ascii(1)

AUTHOR

       Radovan Garabík <garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>

                                                   2003-01-31                                         UNICODE(1)