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chars

display Unicode character information

TLDR

Display character information
$ chars [character]
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Look up by Unicode codepoint
$ chars [U+1F63C]
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Look up by numeric code (ambiguous match)
$ chars [10]
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Look up a control character
$ chars "[^C]"
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Search for characters by name
$ chars [query]
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SYNOPSIS

chars [options] [character|codepoint|query]...

DESCRIPTION

chars is a command-line tool for displaying detailed information about ASCII and Unicode characters and code points. Inspired by `ascii(1)` and `unicode.py`, it supports whitespace and control characters.For each character it prints the Unicode codepoint, encoding representations (hex, octal, UTF-8, UTF-16), display width, Unicode name and aliases, case variants, and escape sequences. Characters can be looked up by literal form, by `U+` codepoint, by numeric code, or by control-character notation.It is written in Rust and useful for developers working with Unicode text or debugging encoding issues.

PARAMETERS

CHARACTER

Character literal, Unicode codepoint (e.g. U+1F63C), numeric code, or control character notation (e.g. ^C).
-h, --help
Display help information.
-V, --version
Display version information.

SEE ALSO

chardet(1), iconv(1), hexdump(1)

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