LCHARMAP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2019
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NAME

lcharmap - a CLI port of the Windows charmap utility for Linux.

SYNOPSIS

lcharmap ,[OPTIONS] [ARGS]/

DESCRIPTION

lcharmap prints information for characters provided at runtime, including decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and HTML codes. It also prints out a description of each character, taked from it's character database located at /etc/chars.db. This character database is generated automatically on installation from the UCD (Unicode Character Database).

OPTIONS

-h, --help: Print this help message.
-V, --version: Print version and exit.
-l, --long: Print character entries in long format
-r, --range RANGE: Print a range of Unicode codepoints. (e.g., `128,255')
-c, --chars CHARS: Print a range of Unicode codepoints that match provided character(s). (e.g., `xyz')
-s, --search TERM: Search character descriptions for *term*.

EXAMPLES

lcharmap --range 128,136/

lcharmap --chars ThisIsATest

lcharmap --search "^LATIN (SMALL|CAPITAL) A$"

KNOWN ISSUES

• The source code is extremely messy and must be cleaned up.

• The resulting binary isn't as small as I would like it to be (debug: 12M, release: 1.4M).

• searching is very slow, due to large database size.

REPORTING BUGS

Please report any found bugs to https://github.com/lptstr/lcharmap/issues

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