On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 02:53:17AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
: On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 07:05:01AM +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
: > I can't find this in the GNOME help, so I thought I'd try asking here.
: >
: > I want to be rename a file so it has an a-umlaut (lower case) in the
: > name.
: >
: > My LANG is en_GB.UTF-8.
: >
: > I don't know how to type the accented character.
:
: One sure way is to copy-and-paste it from a file already containing
: the character. I keep around a copy of UnicodeData.txt with the
: literal UTF-8 character added to each line for exactly this purpose.
Here's a handy program to grep out names from the unicode database.
I call it "uni".
#!/usr/bin/perl -C
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
$pat = "@ARGV";
if (ord $pat > 256) {
$pat = sprintf("%04x", ord $pat);
print "That's $pat...\n";
$pat = '^' . $pat;
}
elsif (ord $pat > 128) { # arg in sneaky UTF-8
$pat = sprintf("%04x", unpack("U0U",$pat));
print "That's $pat...\n";
$pat = '^' . $pat;
}
@names = split /^/, do 'unicore/Name.pl';
for my $line (@names) {
$hex = hex($line);
$_ = chr($hex)."\t".$line;
if (/$pat/io) {
print;
}
}
For example, typing "uni ing face" produces:
☹ 2639 WHITE FROWNING FACE
☺ 263A WHITE SMILING FACE
☻ 263B BLACK SMILING FACE
Larry
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