UNIC Command-Line Tools

This package provides comman-line tools for developers, helping with common Unicode tasks, like generating, transforming, and inspecting strings.

How to Install

Install the unic-cli package using Cargo.

bash $ cargo install unic-cli

How to Use It

Echo Command

The unic-echo command generates Unicode strings, similar to the common echo command.

```bash

Normally, the output ends with a newline

$ unic-echo Hello سلام Hello سلام

Get the codepoints or UTF-8/UTF-16, instead of plain text

$ unic-echo Hello سلام -o codepoints U+0048 U+0065 U+006C U+006C U+006F U+0020 U+0633 U+0644 U+0627 U+0645

Or see how to escape as a Rust string literal

$ unic-echo Hello سلام -o rust-escape "Hello \u{633}\u{644}\u{627}\u{645}"

Also the input can be in codepoints, or UTF-8/UTF-16 hex

$ unic-echo -i codepoints U+0 U+20 U+41 U+A0 -o rust-escape "\u{0} A\u{a0}"

$ unic-echo --help Write arguments to the standard output

USAGE: unic-echo [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [STRINGS]...

FLAGS: -h, --help Prints help information -n, --no-newline No trailing newline -V, --version Prints version information

OPTIONS: -i, --input Specify input format (see list below) -o, --output Specify output format (see list below)

ARGS: ... Input strings (expected valid Unicode)

INPUT FORMATS: plain Plain Unicode characters (default) codepoints Unicode codepoints (hex) utf8-hex UTF-8 bytes (hex) utf16-hex UTF-16 words (hex)

OUTPUT FORMATS: plain Plain Unicode characters (default) codepoints Unicode codepoints (hex) utf8-hex UTF-8 bytes (hex) utf16-hex UTF-16 words (hex)

braces-escape           String literal with \u{...} escapes for
| js6-escape            control and non-ASCII characters
| rust-escape

braces-escape-all       String literal with \u{...} escapes for
| js6-escape-all        all characters
| rust-escape-all

braces-escape-control   String literal with \u{...} escapes for
| js6-escape-control    control characters
| rust-escape-control

```

Inspector Command

The unic-inspector command lists the Unicode characters in the input string, along with their properties.

bash $ unic-inspector Hello سلام H | U+0048 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H | Uppercase_Letter e | U+0065 | LATIN SMALL LETTER E | Lowercase_Letter l | U+006C | LATIN SMALL LETTER L | Lowercase_Letter l | U+006C | LATIN SMALL LETTER L | Lowercase_Letter o | U+006F | LATIN SMALL LETTER O | Lowercase_Letter | U+0020 | SPACE | Space_Separator س | U+0633 | ARABIC LETTER SEEN | Other_Letter ل | U+0644 | ARABIC LETTER LAM | Other_Letter ا | U+0627 | ARABIC LETTER ALEF | Other_Letter م | U+0645 | ARABIC LETTER MEEM | Other_Letter

Soon, this tool will allow selecting which properties to show, as well as support grouping characters by Grapheme Clusters, Words, Sentenses, etc.