I originally created ubrowse as an exercise in learning how to use UTF-8 strings with ncurses. However, long after that, I still find myself using the program for its ostensible purpose of browsing the Unicode character set from the terminal. So I thought I should make it generally available.
Here's a sample "screen shot":
| 21FD leftwards open-headed arrow ⇽ 21FE rightwards open-headed arrow ⇾ 21FF left right open-headed arrow ⇿ 2200 for all ∀ 2201 complement ∁ 2202 partial differential ∂ 2203 there exists ∃ 2204 there does not exist ∄ 2205 empty set ∅ 2206 increment ∆ 2207 nabla ∇ 2208 element of ∈ 2209 not an element of ∉ 220A small element of ∊ 220B contains as member ∋ 220C does not contain as member ∌ 220D small contains as member ∍ 220E end of proof ∎ 220F n-ary product ∏ 2210 n-ary coproduct ∐ 2211 n-ary summation ∑ 2212 minus sign − 2213 minus-or-plus sign ∓ 2214 dot plus ∔ [21FD - 222C] |
2215 division slash ∕ 2216 set minus ∖ 2217 asterisk operator ∗ 2218 ring operator ∘ 2219 bullet operator ∙ 221A square root √ 221B cube root ∛ 221C fourth root ∜ 221D proportional to ∝ 221E infinity ∞ 221F right angle ∟ 2220 angle ∠ 2221 measured angle ∡ 2222 spherical angle ∢ 2223 divides ∣ 2224 does not divide ∤ 2225 parallel to ∥ 2226 not parallel to ∦ 2227 logical and ∧ 2228 logical or ∨ 2229 intersection ∩ 222A union ∪ 222B integral ∫ 222C double integral ∬ |
In addition to general paging commands, the program lets you browse through character blocks, and to search the descriptive names. Alternately, when used in a pipeline, ubrowse will display the full name of each character on standard input — useful for identifying ambiguous-looking codepoints.
The code in this distribution is made available under the MIT license. Share and Enjoy. Questions and comments should be directed to me at breadbox@muppetlabs.com.