Linux / Unix Unicode: Display Detailed Information About a Character

by on December 4, 2012· last updated at December 4, 2012

Fig.02: Get detailed information about a character

The Character Details tabbed section displays the following information about the selected character:

Unicode code point
Example: U+0042
Unicode character name
Example: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
General Character Properties
Unicode category
Example: Letter, Uppercase
Various Useful Representations
UTF-8 encoding
Example: 0x42
UTF-16 encoding
Example: 0x0042
C octal escaped UTF-8 encoding
Example: \102
XML decimal entity
Example: "B"

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