uniwhat
is a simple command line Rust programme I wrote so I could see exactly what unicode characters were in a string. You should be able to install it with cargo install uniwhat
. Crates URL: https://crates.io/crates/uniwhat
$ echo "✨Hello! ä€" | uniwhat
character byte UTF-32 encoded as glyph name
0 0 002728 E2 9C A8 ✨ SPARKLES
1 3 000048 48 H LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
2 4 000065 65 e LATIN SMALL LETTER E
3 5 00006C 6C l LATIN SMALL LETTER L
4 6 00006C 6C l LATIN SMALL LETTER L
5 7 00006F 6F o LATIN SMALL LETTER O
6 8 000021 21 ! EXCLAMATION MARK
7 9 000020 20 SPACE
8 10 0000E4 C3 A4 ä LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
9 12 0020AC E2 82 AC € EURO SIGN
10 15 00000A 0A \n LINE FEED (LF)
I used uniname
but that hasn't been updated in years, so doesn't support recent unicode versions.