A CLI utility to get information for Unicode characters.
chmap is a little utility to get information on Unicode characters,
such as its description, hexadecimal/octal representation, Unicode
category, UTF-8 encoding, and more.
$ chmap -r 9-10,13935,255-258
codepoint glyph encoded case description
9 9 other character tabulation
10 A other line feed (lf)
13935 㙯 E3 99 AF other modifier letter chinese tone yin ping
255 ÿ C3 BF lower latin small letter y with diaeresis
256 Ā C4 80 upper latin capital letter a with macron
257 ā C4 81 lower latin small letter a with macron
258 Ă C4 82 upper latin capital letter a with breve
chmap was inspired by the charmap.exe tool present in Windows XP and
later.
Tarballs are available from GitHub releases for Linux-x86_64 and
Linux-armv6l. Extract, cd, and run:
$ sudo ./install.sh /usr/local
- a C99 compiler, GNU Make
- scdoc (manpage)
Download the latest source tarball from GitHub releases
(chmap-v$VERSION.tar.xz), extract, and build:
# make clean install
Run chmap with the -r flag (for range) to get info for a range of
Unicode runes:
$ chmap -r 0-5
codepoint glyph encoded case description
0 other null
1 1 other start of heading
2 2 other start of text
3 3 other end of text
4 4 other end of transmission
5 5 other enquiry
Example ranges: 0-1, 355-369, 34, 189-192,12,45-49.
You may also list info for a list of given characters with the -c flag:
$ chmap -c Lovecraft
codepoint glyph encoded case description
76 L 4C upper latin capital letter l
111 o 6F lower latin small letter o
118 v 76 lower latin small letter v
101 e 65 lower latin small letter e
99 c 63 lower latin small letter c
114 r 72 lower latin small letter r
97 a 61 lower latin small letter a
102 f 66 lower latin small letter f
116 t 74 lower latin small letter t
You can search for characters that match a regex, too, with the -s flag:
$ chmap -s '^latin.*capital letter z'
codepoint glyph encoded case description
90 Z 5A upper latin capital letter z
377 Ź C5 B9 upper latin capital letter z with acute
379 Ż C5 BB upper latin capital letter z with dot above
381 Ž C5 BD upper latin capital letter z with caron
437 Ƶ C6 B5 upper latin capital letter z with stroke
548 Ȥ C8 A4 upper latin capital letter z with hook
7824 Ẑ E1 BA 90 upper latin capital letter z with circumflex
7826 Ẓ E1 BA 92 upper latin capital letter z with dot below
7828 Ẕ E1 BA 94 upper latin capital letter z with line below
11371 Ⱬ E2 B1 AB upper latin capital letter z with descender
11391 Ɀ E2 B1 BF upper latin capital letter z with swash tail
42950 Ᶎ EA 9F 86 upper latin capital letter z with palatal hook
Adding the -l flag causes chmap to print more information:
$ chmap -l -r 13000
codepoint 13000 0x32C8 0o31310
encoding UTF8(E3 8B 88)
glyph ㋈ (2 columns)
description ideographic telegraph symbol for september
case other
category Symbol (other)
See man chmap for more.
I miss some Windows utilities.
I found chars, but it lacked
several features which I'd like:
- A table-like output mode (which
chmaphas by default). This makes viewing many entries more comfortable in a short terminal. - A
categoryfield to specify the Unicode category that the rune falls under.
- Window's
charmap.exe - Eric Raymond's
asciiutility chars(https://github.com/antifuchs/chars)uninamefrom uniutils
This lame little utility is licensed under the MIT License. See
the LICENSE.md file for more information.