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NAME

       uniname - Name the characters in a Unicode text file

SYNOPSIS

       uniname ([option flags]) (<file name>)

       If no input file name is supplied, uniname reads from the standard input.

DESCRIPTION

       uniname	names the characters in a Unicode text file.  For each character, uniname defaults to printing the character offset, the byte off-
       set, the hexadecimal UTF-32 character code, the encoding as a sequence of hex byte values, the glyph, and  the  character's  Unicode  name.
       Command line flags allow undesired information to be suppressed.  Glyphs that do not display nicely, such as control characters and spaces,
       are not displayed.  For the Latin-1 control characters, whose official Unicode name is "control", the real name	is  given.  Character  and
       byte offsets both start from 0.

       Where a character does not have a unique Unicode name, as is the case with Chinese characters, the character is identified as "character in
       such-and-such a range".	However, if the character is a Chinese character listed in Nelson's dictionary, the Nelson number is supplied.

       By default, input is expected to be UTF-8. Native order UTF-32 may be specified via the command line flag If invalid UTF8  is  encountered,
       an explanation is printed as to why it is invalid.  -q.

COMMAND LINE FLAGS

       -A     Skip ASCII whitespace characters.

       -a     Skip ASCII characters.

       -B     Skip characters within the Basic Multilingual Plane.

       -b     Suppress printing of byte offset.

       -c     Suppress printing of character offset.

       -e     Suppress printing of encoding.

       -g     Suppress printing of glyph.

       -h     Print usage information.

       -l     Print line number.

       -n     Suppress printing of Unicode name.

       -p     Suppress printing of headers every screenfull.

       -q     Input is native order UTF-32.

       -r     Print  Unicode  range.  The ranges reported include both official Unicode ranges and the constructed language ranges within the Pri-
	      vate Use Areas registered with the Conscript Unicode Registry (http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/).

       -s <character offset>
	      Skip to specified character offset.

       -S <byte offset>
	      Skip to specified byte offset. Note that even if the file consists of well-formed Unicode  there	is  no	guarantee  that  the  byte
	      sequence	beginning  at  an arbitrary byte will be valid Unicode. This option is provided for use where other programs generate only
	      byte offsets or where it is necessary to skip over damaged Unicode. In most circumstances use of a character  offset  will  be  more
	      apprpriate. If a byte offset is used, the character offsets shown are with respect to the beginning of the section of the file exam-
	      ined rather than the beginning of the file.

       -u     Suppress printing of UTF32 code.

       -V     Validate the input. In this case, nothing is done other than determine whether the input is valid UTF-8 Unicode. If it is, no output
	      is  produced  and  the  program  exits with status 0. If invalid UTF-8 is encountered, the program reports the location of the first
	      invalid UTF-8 encountered, explains why it is invalid, and exits with status 1.

       -v     Print version information.

SEE ALSO

       unidesc

REFERENCES

       Unicode Standard, version 5.1

AUTHOR

       Bill Poser
       billposer@alum.mit.edu

LICENSE

       GNU General Public License

								  February, 2009							uniname(1)