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chars — Display names and codes for various ASCII and Unicode characters and code points. More information:

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Problem

How to use the chars command: Display names and codes for various ASCII and Unicode characters and code points. More information: <https://github.com/boinkor-net/chars#running>.

Solution

chars — Display names and codes for various ASCII and Unicode characters and code points. More information: <https://github.com/boinkor-net/chars#running>.

Look up a character by its value:

chars '{{ß}}'

Look up a character by its Unicode code point:

chars {{U+1F63C}}

Look up possible characters given an ambiguous code point:

chars {{10}}

Look up a control character:

chars "{{^C}}"

Code Snippets

Look up a character by its value

chars '{{ß}}'

Look up a character by its Unicode code point

chars {{U+1F63C}}

Look up possible characters given an ambiguous code point

chars {{10}}

Look up a control character

chars "{{^C}}"

Context

tldr-pages: common/chars

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