Unicode Reference

a2jc4life · February 8, 2023, 10:38pm

Does anyone happen to have something like this already in Markdown format? I was hoping to save something like this as a note to use as a reference to copy/paste from, but this table doesn’t convert very well to MD.

anon63144152 · February 9, 2023, 5:43am

Any use?

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/jpassaro/bf400b0410810a071a7fb3509ef6c2c3

00-unicode-cheat-sheet.md


# Unicode cheat sheet

A curated list of unicode characters I want to have quick reference toward,
including their literal presentation (where possible), description from the
unicode table, various representations, and how to enter it as a Vim digraph\*.

They are grouped by category, including a link to the relevant Unicode block.
Also see [the full list of Unicode
blocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_block)

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01-generate.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from collections import OrderedDict
from html.entities import codepoint2name
import itertools
import string
import sys
import unicodedata

def genchars():

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02-vim-digraphs.txt

^@	NU	0x00	  0	NULL (NUL)
^A	SH	0x01	  1	START OF HEADING (SOH)
^B	SX	0x02	  2	START OF TEXT (STX)
^C	EX	0x03	  3	END OF TEXT (ETX)
^D	ET	0x04	  4	END OF TRANSMISSION (EOT)
^E	EQ	0x05	  5	ENQUIRY (ENQ)
^F	AK	0x06	  6	ACKNOWLEDGE (ACK)
^G	BL	0x07	  7	BELL (BEL)
^H	BS	0x08	  8	BACKSPACE (BS)
^I	HT	0x09	  9	CHARACTER TABULATION (HT)

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a2jc4life · February 9, 2023, 6:29am

Not for my purposes, I think. They’re all helpful from on the page itself, of course. But I was hoping for something I can store in my database, and these heavily table-based pages don’t seem to carry over well.

anon63144152 · February 9, 2023, 7:45am

Fair enough. It is a Markdown file with a lot of tabulated data. Can understand why the writer would use a Markdown table to store the data. Assume the table could be removed, but then the columns would get pretty messy. I downloaded it and it looks clean and simple enough (as attached), but we all have different needs. If you find a cleaner source, please share. Thanks.

unicode.zip (60.6 KB)

holroy · February 9, 2023, 9:31am

What kind of output/markdown do you envision?

A list? How would you like items to be separated then? Could you give an example?

It’s going to be an unwieldy beast due to the shear volume on entities anyways.

anon63144152 · February 9, 2023, 10:22am

Here is a Markdown file with 52,000+ Unicode characters in list format (no table). Expect a lot of them could be culled, depending on language needs. Some glyphs won’t display without the right fonts.

52000 unicode characters.md.zip (469.0 KB)

a2jc4life · February 10, 2023, 6:11am

Maybe I did something wrong, because I got a jumble when I tried to save it. I’ll give it another go.

anon63144152 · February 10, 2023, 6:23am

Should look like this:

Could try opening and editing in something like VS Code.

a2jc4life · February 10, 2023, 6:37am

That should definitely suffice! I don’t know why my output didn’t look like that. I’ll try again in the morning. Thank you!

holroy · February 10, 2023, 9:39am

Since this is a list, and you might have other queries potentially querying (and flattening lists), I would suggest adding this file to the excluded files so that it’s not picked up that easily by an open query and metadata caches and ask on.

The file will still be available, but a littlen more hidden in searches and so on.

3dRKCjr4k · February 15, 2023, 5:45pm

Thank you for this insight @anon63144152. I too, had a similar question about Unicode for languages. I did not realize this was available for download for the Greek and Hebrew languages.

system · May 16, 2023, 5:45pm

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