App::Uni
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 Raku; 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 Raku - you get the latest Unicode DB in the compiler (15 in the upcoming release) and regexes are Raku-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]
-v (Verbose, Single Character)
Identical to the -s
variant, except that additional information about the codepoint is also displayed.
$ uni -v 🚮
🚮 - U+01F6AE - PUT LITTER IN ITS PLACE SYMBOL [So]
Properties: Symbol, other
Unicode Script: Common
Unicode Block: Transport and Map Symbols
Added in Unicode: 6.0
White Space: False
Width: W
-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.