Four years and seven weeks ago our friend Ricardo SIGNES brought forth on this network, a new program, conceived by Audrey Tang: App::Uni! For some reason a year old clone of uni, written in Go, was advertised as "Hacker News" yesterday:

Uni: Query the Unicode database from the CLI...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21777025

Usage of App::Uni:

Identify a character:

uni €
€ - U+020AC - EURO SIGN

Or a string:

uni -c h€ý
h - U+00068 - LATIN SMALL LETTER H
€ - U+020AC - EURO SIGN
ý - U+000FD - LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE

Search description:

uni /euro/
₠ - U+020A0 - EURO-CURRENCY SIGN
€ - U+020AC - EURO SIGN
𐡷 - U+10877 - PALMYRENE LEFT-POINTING FLEURON
𐡸 - U+10878 - PALMYRENE RIGHT-POINTING FLEURON
𐫱 - U+10AF1 - MANICHAEAN PUNCTUATION FLEURON
🌍 - U+1F30D - EARTH GLOBE EUROPE-AFRICA
🏤 - U+1F3E4 - EUROPEAN POST OFFICE
🏰 - U+1F3F0 - EUROPEAN CASTLE
💶 - U+1F4B6 - BANKNOTE WITH EURO SIGN

Multiple words are matched individually:

uni globe earth
🌍 - U+1F30D - EARTH GLOBE EUROPE-AFRICA
🌎 - U+1F30E - EARTH GLOBE AMERICAS
🌏 - U+1F30F - EARTH GLOBE ASIA-AUSTRALIA

Print specific codepoints or groups of codepoints:

uni -u 2042
⁂ - U+02042 - ASTERISM

uni -u 2042 2043 2044
⁂ - U+02042 - ASTERISM
⁃ - U+02043 - HYPHEN BULLET
⁄ - U+02044 - FRACTION SLASH

AFAIK App::Uni does not have the -race (I mean -tone) or -gender switches of the Go uni so there was some innovation I guess.

Anyway my meditation consists of encouraging Perl programmers to announce their wares on Hacker News, and other such websites.

https://news.ycombinator.com/news