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unicode

Created 2022-05-21. Updated 2022-07-08

Favourites

Some of my favourites:


     UNI     OUTPUT  DI      NAME
     u00A2   ¢       c|      Cents Sign
     u00A3   £       Pd      Pound Sign
     u00A7   §       SE      Section Sign
     u2016   ‖       !2      Double vertical line
     u2020   †       /-      Dagger
     u2021   ‡       /=      Double dagger
     u2022   •       oo      Bullet
     u2055   ⁕       ??      Flower punctuation mark
     u20AC   €       Eu      Euro Sign
     u2013   ℃       oC      Degree Celcius
     u21B3   ↳       ??      Downwards Arrow with Tip Rightwards
     u22A5   ⊥       -T      Up Tack
     u2423   ␣       Vs      Open Box

Legend:

UNI: unicode

OUTPUT: output

DI: Digraph for vim (see below) (?? => unknown)

NAME: Official name

Unicode Character Table

Query

Install:


     apt install unicode

Example usage:


     unicode -x a7 # -x for hex

Example output:


     U+00A7 SECTION SIGN
     UTF-8: c2 a7 UTF-16BE: 00a7 Decimal: &#167; Octal:  247
     §
     Category: Po (Punctuation, Other); East Asian width: A (ambiguous)
     Unicode block: 0080..00FF; Latin-1 Supplement
     Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)

Vim

DIGRAPH insertion: In insert mode type C-k followed by the 2-char-

acter digraph (see also examples above)

Table of digraphs

UNICODE code insertion:

i - enter insert mode
Ctrl-V - enter ins-special-keys mode
u2713 - insert unicode example