utf8lookup(1)

utf8lookup1

Look up unicode characters from the command line

Usage

utf8lookup <unicode codepoint as hex text without leading 0x>

Overview

utf8lookup is a simple bash script that will read a Unicode codepoint as hex without the leading 0x and print out the name of the corresponding character.

References

Unicode Standard, version 4.1

Releases

Unchanged in 9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–13

Author

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

This manual page was written by Mohammed Sameer <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

License

GNU General Public License

From uniutils 2.28-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.