And yet, among the alternatives, there is no mention of `unicode`, a standard-ish command line tool that does more or less the same thing and is available in common Linux distros since ~2005.
Example output (the CLI's output is colored):
$ unicode €
U+20AC EURO SIGN
UTF-8: e2 82 ac UTF-16BE: 20ac Decimal: € Octal: \020254
€
Category: Sc (Symbol, Currency)
Bidi: ET (European Number Terminator)
$ unicode
U+1F30D EARTH GLOBE EUROPE-AFRICA
UTF-8: f0 9f 8c 8d UTF-16BE: d83cdf0d Decimal: 🌍 Octal: \0371415
Category: So (Symbol, Other)
Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)
U+1F3E4 EUROPEAN POST OFFICE
UTF-8: f0 9f 8f a4 UTF-16BE: d83cdfe4 Decimal: 🏤 Octal: \0371744
Category: So (Symbol, Other)
Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)
I am not being sarcastic here. I am just noticing that the software landscape is vast, and that it is often hard to know what exists out there. Even old glories are forgotten.
There should be an interdisciplinary stackoverflow where you can ask: "does this already exist?"
I can't find that one in Void or Arch, but did find it in Debian[1]. I think this is the homepage[2] (Debian packages don't seem to have a clear field for this?) I'll add it to the list.
I mainly searched for "emoji" tools, as that's the real reason I wanted this, so I probably missed a zillion scripts. That list is by no means intended to be comprehensive.
> There should be an interdisciplinary stackoverflow where you can ask: "does this already exist?"
https://alternativeto.net is not too bad, although it takes a while for new projects to appear and also sometimes when a tool does x and y and you're looking for an alternative for x, only alternatives for y are shown.
Example output (the CLI's output is colored):
I am not being sarcastic here. I am just noticing that the software landscape is vast, and that it is often hard to know what exists out there. Even old glories are forgotten.There should be an interdisciplinary stackoverflow where you can ask: "does this already exist?"