uniname - Name the characters in a Unicode text file
uniname ([option flags]) (<file name>)
If no input file name is supplied, uniname reads from the
standard input.
uniname names the characters in a Unicode text file. For
each character, uniname defaults to printing the character offset,
the byte offset, the hexadecimal UTF-32 character code, the encoding as a
sequence of hex byte values, the glyph, and the character's Unicode name.
Command line flags allow undesired information to be suppressed. Glyphs that
do not display nicely, such as control characters and spaces, are not
displayed. For the Latin-1 control characters, whose official Unicode name
is "control", the real name is given. Character and byte offsets
both start from 0.
Where a character does not have a unique Unicode name, as is the
case with Chinese characters, the character is identified as "character
in such-and-such a range". However, if the character is a Chinese
character listed in Nelson's dictionary, the Nelson number is supplied.
By default, input is expected to be UTF-8. Native order UTF-32 may
be specified via the command line flag If invalid UTF8 is encountered, an
explanation is printed as to why it is invalid. -q.
- -A
- Skip ASCII whitespace characters.
- -a
- Skip ASCII characters.
- -B
- Skip characters within the Basic Multilingual Plane.
- -b
- Suppress printing of byte offset.
- -c
- Suppress printing of character offset.
- -e
- Suppress printing of encoding.
- -g
- Suppress printing of glyph.
- -h
- Print usage information.
- -l
- Print line number.
- -n
- Suppress printing of Unicode name.
- -p
- Suppress printing of headers every screenfull.
- -q
- Input is native order UTF-32.
- -r
- Print Unicode range. The ranges reported include both official Unicode
ranges and the constructed language ranges within the Private Use Areas
registered with the Conscript Unicode Registry
(http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/).
- -s <character offset>
- Skip to specified character offset.
- -S <byte offset>
- Skip to specified byte offset. Note that even if the file consists of
well-formed Unicode there is no guarantee that the byte sequence beginning
at an arbitrary byte will be valid Unicode. This option is provided for
use where other programs generate only byte offsets or where it is
necessary to skip over damaged Unicode. In most circumstances use of a
character offset will be more appropriate. If a byte offset is used, the
character offsets shown are with respect to the beginning of the section
of the file examined rather than the beginning of the file.
- -u
- Suppress printing of UTF32 code.
- -V
- Validate the input. In this case, nothing is done other than determine
whether the input is valid UTF-8 Unicode. If it is, no output is produced
and the program exits with status 0. If invalid UTF-8 is encountered, the
program reports the location of the first invalid UTF-8 encountered,
explains why it is invalid, and exits with status 1.
- -v
- Print version information.
Unicode Standard, version 5.1
Bill Poser
billposer@alum.mit.edu
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