unicode

Created 2022-05-21. Updated 2022-12-05

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
     u2026   …               Horizontal Ellipsis
     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

Suggestions for protocols:

🕳 U+2161 hole (for gopher)
(🦫  U+1F9AB beaver (close enough to gopherr) Rejected because it takes up too much width)
🗡 U+1F5E1 dagger (for Spartan)
🌐 U+1F310 globe with meridians (for http)
♊ U+264A  gemini (for gemini)

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: § 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)

UNICODE code insertion for four-digit code:

• i - enter insert mode
• Ctrl-V - enter ins-special-keys mode
• u2713 - insert unicode example (✓)

For 8-digit code example:

Ctrl-V U1f60a␣ (😊), or else use leading 0's/

SEE ALSO