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Unidesc consists of four programs for finding out what is in a Unicode file.
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They are useful when working with Unicode files when one doesn't know the
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writing system, doesn't have the necessary font, needs to inspect invisible
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characters, needs to find out whether characters have been combined or in what
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order they occur, or needs statistics on which characters occur.
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uniname defaults to printing the character offset of each character, its byte
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offset, its hex code value, its encoding, the glyph itself, and its name.
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unidesc reports the character ranges to which different portions of the text
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belong. It can also be used to identify Unicode encodings (e.g. UTF-16be)
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flagged by magic numbers.
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unihist generates a histogram of the characters in its input, which must be
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encoded in UTF-8 Unicode. By default, for each character it prints the
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frequency of the character as a percentage of the total, the absolute number of
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tokens in the input, the UTF-32 code in hexadecimal, and, if the character is
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displayable, the glyph itself as UTF-8 Unicode.
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ExplicateUTF8 is intended for debugging or for learning about Unicode. It
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determines and explains the validity of a sequence of bytes as a UTF8 encoding.
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WWW: http://billposer.org/Software/unidesc.html
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