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unichar

Print Unicode characters by name or code point

This is a very small utility that I use to insert Unicode characters into text documents in vim:

:r ! unichar bullet

There are likely other ways to do this, but it's nice to be able to call characters up by name:

:r ! unichar 'greek capital letter delta'

Notes

unichar requires a recent version of sclapp (at least bzr revision 89 from the dev branch on launchpad.net). It relies on sclapp's stdio_encoding.py for printing unicode strings.

Development Code

unichar utilizes a launchpad-hosted bzr repository. bzr is a distributed version-control system. To checkout the most recent development code, type this:

$ bzr branch https://launchpad.net/unichar

Ubuntu Packages

Installable packages for Ubuntu are available from my PPA (Personal Package Archive) on launchpad.

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