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| <tr><td width=20><td><b>ASCII(1)</b><td align=right><b>ASCII(1)</b> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>NAME </b></font><br> |
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| ascii, unicode – interpret ASCII, Unicode characters<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>SYNOPSIS </b></font><br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>ascii</font></tt> [ <tt><font size=+1>−8</font></tt> ] [ <tt><font size=+1>−oxdb</font></tt><i>n</i> ] [ <tt><font size=+1>−nct</font></tt> ] [ <i>text</i> ] |
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| <tt><font size=+1>unicode</font></tt> [ <tt><font size=+1>−nt</font></tt> ] <i>hexmin</i><tt><font size=+1>−</font></tt><i>hexmax |
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| <tt><font size=+1>unicode</font></tt> [ <tt><font size=+1>−t</font></tt> ] <i>hex</i> [ ... ] |
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| <tt><font size=+1>unicode</font></tt> [ <tt><font size=+1>−n</font></tt> ] <i>characters |
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| <tt><font size=+1>look</font></tt> <i>hex</i> <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/lib/unicode<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>DESCRIPTION </b></font><br> |
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| <i>Ascii</i> prints the ASCII values corresponding to characters and |
| <i>vice versa</i>; under the <tt><font size=+1>−8</font></tt> option, the ISO Latin-1 extensions (codes |
| 0200-0377) are included. The values are interpreted in a settable |
| numeric base; <tt><font size=+1>−o</font></tt> specifies octal, <tt><font size=+1>−d</font></tt> decimal, <tt><font size=+1>−x</font></tt> hexadecimal (the |
| default), and <tt><font size=+1>−b</font></tt><i>n</i> base <i>n</i>. |
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| With no arguments, <i>ascii</i> prints a table of the character set in |
| the specified base. Characters of <i>text</i> are converted to their |
| ASCII values, one per line. If, however, the first <i>text</i> argument |
| is a valid number in the specified base, conversion goes the opposite |
| way. Control characters are printed as two- or three-character |
| mnemonics. Other options are:<br> |
| <tt><font size=+1>−n</font></tt> Force numeric output.<br> |
| <tt><font size=+1>−c</font></tt> Force character output.<br> |
| <tt><font size=+1>−t</font></tt> Convert from numbers to running text; do not interpret control |
| characters or insert newlines. |
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| <i>Unicode</i> is similar; it converts between UTF and character values |
| from the Unicode Standard (see <a href="../man7/utf.html"><i>utf</i>(7)</a>). If given a range of hexadecimal |
| numbers, <i>unicode</i> prints a table of the specified Unicode characters |
| -- their values and UTF representations. Otherwise it translates |
| from UTF to numeric value or vice versa, depending |
| on the appearance of the supplied text; the <tt><font size=+1>−n</font></tt> option forces numeric |
| output to avoid ambiguity with numeric characters. If converting |
| to UTF , the characters are printed one per line unless the <tt><font size=+1>−t</font></tt> |
| flag is set, in which case the output is a single string containing |
| only the specified characters. Unlike <i>ascii</i>, <i>unicode</i> treats |
| no characters specially. |
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| The output of <i>ascii</i> and <i>unicode</i> may be unhelpful if the characters |
| printed are not available in the current font. |
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| The file <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/lib/unicode</font></tt> contains a table of characters |
| and descriptions, sorted in hexadecimal order, suitable for <a href="../man1/look.html"><i>look</i>(1)</a> |
| on the lower case <i>hex</i> values of characters.<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>EXAMPLES </b></font><br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>ascii −d<br> |
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| Print the ASCII table base 10.<br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>unicode p<br> |
| </font></tt> |
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| Print the hex value of ‘p’.<br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>unicode 2200−22f1<br> |
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| Print a table of miscellaneous mathematical symbols.<br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>look 039 /usr/local/plan9/lib/unicode<br> |
| </font></tt> |
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| See the start of the Greek alphabet’s encoding in the Unicode |
| Standard.<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>FILES </b></font><br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/lib/unicode<br> |
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| table of characters and descriptions.<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>SOURCE </b></font><br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/ascii.c<br> |
| /usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/unicode.c<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>SEE ALSO </b></font><br> |
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| <a href="../man1/look.html"><i>look</i>(1)</a>, <a href="../man1/tcs.html"><i>tcs</i>(1)</a>, <a href="../man7/utf.html"><i>utf</i>(7)</a>, <a href="../man7/font.html"><i>font</i>(7)</a><br> |
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