Get the description, code point(s) and UTF encoding of Unicode characters and sequences, in a variety of formats and encodings with clui (Command Line Unicode Information) for macOS
Check out blog entries on clui at brunerd.com
See clui in action:
./clui -u for usage/help output in less
clui (1.0) - Command Line Unicode Info (https://github.com/brunerd/clui)
Usage: clui [options] <input> ...
Input can be:
* Unicode characters, space or comma delimited (use -x to expand non-delimited strings)
* Hexadecimal codepoint representations (U+hhhhh or 0xhhhhh), double-quoted muti-point sequences
* Hyphenated ranges (ascending or descending): z-a, U+A1-U+BF or 0x20-0x7E
* Category or Group names (see Input Options)
* Descriptive words or phrases (see Input Options)
Output Options
-D Discrete info fields for CharacterDB and localized AppleName.strings
-H Hide characters lacking info descriptions
-l <localization>
Show localized info (Emoji only). Use -Ll to list available localizations.
-p Preserve case of CharacterDB info
Encoding style for UTF field
-E <encoding>
h* UTF-8 hexadecimal, space delimited and capitalized (NN) (default)
H Hex HTML Entity UTF-32 (&#xnnnn;)
0 Octal UTF-8 with leading 0 (\0nnn)
o Octal UTF-8 (\nnn)
x Shell style UTF-8 hex(\xnn)
u JS style UTF-16 (\unnnn)
U zsh style UTF-32 Unicode Code Point (\Unnnnnnnn)
w Web/URL UTF-8 encoding (%nn)
Output format
-O <output format>
C* CSV (default)
c Character-only, space delimited
j JSON output (array of objects)
J JSON Sequence output (objects delimited by 0x1E and 0x0A)
p Plain output (no field descriptions)
r RTF output (plain output with large sized characters)
y YAML output
Format dependent output options
-f <char size, info size> set font size for RTF output of char and info fields (default: 256,32)
-h Hide headers for CSV output
Input Options
-C <Category>[,Subsection]
Treat input as a Category name with possible a subsection (see -L for listing)
-F Remove Fitzpatrick skin tone modifier and process, then process as-is
-G <Group>[,Category]
Treat input as a Group name with possible category name (see -L for listing)
-l <localization>
Search localized descriptions (Emoji only), use -Ll to list available localizations
-S <mode>
Treat input as search criteria
d Search descriptions in CharacterDB and AppleName.strings (case insensitive)
c Search for character in other Unicode sequences
C Search for character plus "related characters"
-x Expand and describe each individual code point in a sequence
-X Expand plus display original sequence prior to expansion
-V Verbatim, process input raw/as-is, no additional interpretation or delimitation
Other Modes
List categories and groups
-L <mode> List categories or groups in CSV (use -h to suppress header)
c Category list (* after a name denotes subsections)
C Category list, with subsections expanded
g Groups of categories, top level name
G Group name with member categories expanded
l Locales available to search and display results from (Emoji only)
-u Display usage info (aka help) with less (press q to quit)
Examples:
Search for characters a to z plus "related characters" and output as CSV (default)
clui -SC a-z
Look up all available Categories
clui -Lc
Get every character in Emoji category and output in RTF to a file
clui -Or -C Emoji > Emoji.rtf
All characters in Emoji category with discrete info fields in Spanish to a CSV to a file
clui -D -l es -C Emoji > Emoji-es.csv
Search descriptions for substring "family" and expand multi-code point ZWJ sequences
clui -X -Sd "family"