Command-line tool to decode & explain unicode strings. This repository is not meant to be anything anyone should depend on, but is instead a useful to me tool I decided to write as a means of refreshing my knowledge of Rust (previous work was under Edition 2018!) and also to understand Unicode better. This is currently limited to analyzing UTF-8 input.
Right now, clone the repo. Then run cargo run -- --help (assuming you have cargo
etc installed).
Example:
☰ ~ echo 👮🏽♀️ | ./target/debug/unicode-decode
+---------+------------+-----------------------------------+---------------+
| Display | Code Point | Name | UTF-8 Byte(s) |
+---------+------------+-----------------------------------+---------------+
| 👮 | 1f46e | POLICE OFFICER | f0 9f 91 ae |
+---------+------------+-----------------------------------+---------------+
| 🏽 | 1f3fd | EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-4 | f0 9f 8f bd |
+---------+------------+-----------------------------------+---------------+
| | 200d | ZERO WIDTH JOINER | e2 80 8d |
+---------+------------+-----------------------------------+---------------+
| ♀ | 2640 | FEMALE SIGN | e2 99 80 |
+---------+------------+-----------------------------------+---------------+
| ️ | fe0f | VARIATION SELECTOR-16 | ef b8 8f |
+---------+------------+-----------------------------------+---------------+
| | 000a | LINE FEED (LF) | a |
+---------+------------+-----------------------------------+---------------+
text analyzed: 👮🏽♀️
Pass in a string as an argument:
unicode-decode "some interesting string"
If you don't pass in input by one of these mechanisms, the tool will wait for input followed by a newline:
unicode-decode<enter>
some interesting string
Options:
- Positional arguments: string to process
-e/--encoding: the type of data (only allowed: utf8)-h/--help: print help message
- Shows each Unicode code point and its name
- Shows the byte(s) it is represented in utf-8
MIT