Uni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI, with good support for emojis

Re:Uni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI, with good s... by gioele on Friday December 13, 2019 @06:35AM (#21780749)

And yet, among the alternatives, there is no mention of `unicode`, a standard-ish command line tool that does more or less the same thing and is available in common Linux distros since ~2005.

Example output (the CLI's output is colored):

    $ unicode €
    U+20AC EURO SIGN
    UTF-8: e2 82 ac UTF-16BE: 20ac Decimal: &#8364; Octal: \020254
    €
    Category: Sc (Symbol, Currency)
    Bidi: ET (European Number Terminator)

    $ unicode 
    U+1F30D EARTH GLOBE EUROPE-AFRICA
    UTF-8: f0 9f 8c 8d UTF-16BE: d83cdf0d Decimal: &#127757; Octal: \0371415
    
    Category: So (Symbol, Other)
    Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)

    U+1F3E4 EUROPEAN POST OFFICE
    UTF-8: f0 9f 8f a4 UTF-16BE: d83cdfe4 Decimal: &#127972; Octal: \0371744
    
    Category: So (Symbol, Other)
    Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)

I am not being sarcastic here. I am just noticing that the software landscape is vast, and that it is often hard to know what exists out there. Even old glories are forgotten.

There should be an interdisciplinary stackoverflow where you can ask: "does this already exist?"

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Re:Uni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI, with good s... by Carpetsmoker on Friday December 13, 2019 @07:58AM (#21781132)

I can't find that one in Void or Arch, but did find it in Debian[1]. I think this is the homepage[2] (Debian packages don't seem to have a clear field for this?) I'll add it to the list.

I mainly searched for "emoji" tools, as that's the real reason I wanted this, so I probably missed a zillion scripts. That list is by no means intended to be comprehensive.

[1]: https://packages.debian.org/buster/unicode

[2]: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/unicode/

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Re:Uni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI, with good s... by saghm on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:34PM (#21786242)

Looks like it might be this package in the AUR? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/unicode/

Given that it's been around for 10 years though, it probably won't be promoted to the main repos

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Re:Uni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI, with good s... by PhilippGille on Friday December 13, 2019 @12:53PM (#21783720)

> There should be an interdisciplinary stackoverflow where you can ask: "does this already exist?"

https://alternativeto.net is not too bad, although it takes a while for new projects to appear and also sometimes when a tool does x and y and you're looking for an alternative for x, only alternatives for y are shown.

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