nsbum / chptr

Rust application to print Unicode code point values and UTF-8 hex bytes for text strings

chptr

Rust application to print Unicode code point values, UTF-8 hex bytes, and binary representation of the UTF-8 hex bytes for text strings.

This is just a little utility written while learning Rust, nothng fancy.

Installation

The easiest, assuming you have Rust and Cargo installed, is to just download the source code and cargo build.

Usage

The tool can read a string from stdin or an argument.

Reading from stdin

(base) ╭─alan@WokeAF
╰─➤  echo "✳Моя собака." | chptr
✳ | U+2733 | E2 9C B3     | 1110 00101001 11001011 0011
М | U+041C | D0 9C        | 1101 00001001 1100
о | U+043E | D0 BE        | 1101 00001011 1110
я | U+044F | D1 8F        | 1101 00011000 1111
  | U+0020 | 20           | 0010 0000
с | U+0441 | D1 81        | 1101 00011000 0001
о | U+043E | D0 BE        | 1101 00001011 1110
б | U+0431 | D0 B1        | 1101 00001011 0001
а | U+0430 | D0 B0        | 1101 00001011 0000
к | U+043A | D0 BA        | 1101 00001011 1010
а | U+0430 | D0 B0        | 1101 00001011 0000
. | U+002E | 2E           | 0010 1110

From an argument

(base) ╭─alan@WokeAF
╰─➤  chptr "うちの犬"
う | U+3046 | E3 81 86
ち | U+3061 | E3 81 A1
の | U+306E | E3 81 AE
犬 | U+72AC | E7 8A AC