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NAME

       unihist - Generate a histogram of the characters in a Unicode file

SYNOPSIS

       unihist ([option flags])

DESCRIPTION

       unihist  generates a histogram of the characters in its input, which must be encoded in UTF-8 Unicode. By
       default, for each character it prints the frequency of the character as a percentage of  the  total,  the
       absolute  number  of  tokens  in  the  input,  the  UTF-32 code in  hexadecimal, and, if the character is
       displayable, the glyph itself as UTF-8 Unicode. Command line  flags  allow  unwanted  information  to  be
       suppressed.   In  particular,  note  that  by  suppressing  the  percentages and counts it is possible to
       generate a list of the unique characters in the input.

       Output is produced ordered by character code. To sort it in  descending  order  of  frequency,  pipe  the
       output into the command:

              sort -k1 -n -r

       By default, unihist handles all of Unicode. To reduce memory usage and increase speed, it may be compiled
       so as to handle only the Basic Multilingual Plane (plane 0) by defining BMPONLY.

COMMAND LINE FLAGS

       -c     Suppress printing of counts and percentages.

       -g     Suppress printing of glyphs.

       -h     Print usage information.

       -u     Suppress printing of the Unicode code as text.

       -v     Print version information.

SEE ALSO

       uniname (1)

REFERENCES

       Unicode Standard, version 5.0

AUTHOR

       Bill Poser
       billposer@alum.mit.edu

LICENSE

       GNU General Public License

                                                    May, 2008                                         unihist(1)