uctools 1.2.0

Tools for showing information about unicode characters.

Tools for showing information about unicode characters (UTF-8).

Copyright ® 2018, Luís Gomes <[e-mail]>.

The following command line tools are provided:

ucinfo

writes on stdout the name of each unicode character read from stdin

ucenum

enumerates on stdout all unicode characters of a chosen category

ucinfo

The ucinfo tool reads UTF-8 text from stdin and writes to stdout information about each character, one per line. The output has 5 tab-separated columns:

1. the character itself, if printable, or an escaped representation of it

2. the decimal codepoint of the character

3. the number of bytes that the character occupies

4. the Unicode category of the character

5. the Unicode name of the character

ucenum

The ucenum tool takes a category abbreviation as argument and outputs a list

of all characters belonging to that category. The categories are:

L

Letter

Lu

Letter, Uppercase

Ll

Letter, Lowercase

Lt

Letter, Titlecase

Lm

Letter, Modifier

Lo

Letter, Other

M

Mark

Mn

Mark, Nonspacing

Mc

Mark, Spacing Combining

Me

Mark, Enclosing

N

Number

Nd

Number, Decimal Digit

Nl

Number, Letter

No

Number, Other

P

Punctuation

Pc

Punctuation, Connector

Pd

Punctuation, Dash

Ps

Punctuation, Open

Pe

Punctuation, Close

Pi

Punctuation, Initial quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage)

Pf

Punctuation, Final quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage)

Po

Punctuation, Other

S

Symbol

Sm

Symbol, Math

Sc

Symbol, Currency

Sk

Symbol, Modifier

So

Symbol, Other

Z

Separator

Zs

Separator, Space

Zl

Separator, Line

Zp

Separator, Paragraph

C

Other

Cc

Other, Control

Cf

Other, Format

Cs

Other, Surrogate

Co

Other, Private Use

Cn

Other, Not Assigned