NAME

uni - command-line utility to find or display Unicode characters

DESCRIPTION

$ uni ¶
¶ - U+0000B6 - PILCROW SIGN [Po]

uni will output information from the Unicode DB in Perl 6; The hex code, the character itself, the characters name, and the properties of the character(s) are output.

This verison of uni is heavily inspired by the Perl 5 module of the same name. H/T to RJBS.

Since it's in Perl 6 - you get the latest Unicode DB in the compiler (currently 9) and regexes are Perl 6-style.

MODES

Default

If you pass a single character to uni, then details of that character are printed; Otherwise the codepoint names are searched.

-s (Single Character)

A single character is processed.

$ uni -s •
• - U+002022 - BULLET [Po]

-n (Name Search)

The text following -n is used to search (case insensitively) through all the codepoints. Parameters that start and end with / are considered regular expressions.

$ uni -n modesty # note the st ligature
䷎ - U+004DCE - HEXAGRAM FOR MODESTY [So]

$ uni -n stroke dotl modifier
ᶡ - U+001DA1 - MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DOTLESS J WITH STROKE [Lm]

$ uni -n /"rev".*"pilcr"/ # note, has to be one shell arg
⁋ - U+00204B - REVERSED PILCROW SIGN [Po]

-w (Word Search)

Same as -n, except each parameter must match an entire word.

$ uni -w cat eyes
😸 - U+001F638 - GRINNING CAT FACE WITH SMILING EYES [So]
😻 - U+001F63B - SMILING CAT FACE WITH HEART-SHAPED EYES [So]
😽 - U+001F63D - KISSING CAT FACE WITH CLOSED EYES [So]

-c (Multiple Characters)

Output multiple characters' information at once:

$uni -c £¢…
£ - U+0000A3 - POUND SIGN [Sc]
¢ - U+0000A2 - CENT SIGN [Sc]
… - U+002026 - HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS [Po]

-u (Codepoint)

Search by hex codepoint:

$ uni -u 221E 00A7
∞ - U+00221E - INFINITY [Sm]
§ - U+0000A7 - SECTION SIGN [Po]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This is a re-implementation of the Perl 5 module of the same name, by RJBS: Check out his module for the continued history.