This is a simple JavaScript application for searching/browsing Unicode characters. You can see it in action at http://liip.to/unicode.
See the application's built-in help for usage instructions.
In order to serve a copy of this software from your own web server (or local
disk), after cloning the git repository you will need to run the
make-data-file script, which downloads the XML Unicode Character Database
files from Unicode.org and produces a much smaller summary data file.
Before running the make-data-file script, you'll need to install a few dependencies. On Debian/Ubuntu, you can install these packages:
sudo apt-get install libwww-perl libarchive-zip-perl libxml-sax-expat-perl
If you're installing direct from CPAN, these are the modules you'll need:
- libwww-perl
- Archive::Zip
- XML::SAX::Expat
The first time you run the script, you'll need to provide the --download
option:
./make-data-file --download
This will download the latest data files from Unicode.org. If you're modifying
the script and re-running it, you don't need to provide --download each time.
For more information about the script and the format of the file it produces,
use the --help option.
If you have trouble installing dependencies or running the script, you can always just grab the data file from the web site
Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Grant McLean
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License.