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Unum: Interconvert numbers, Unicode, and HTML/XHTML entities
- vanderZwan 5y agoI was a bit confused at first since I only knew of "unum" as referring to John Gustafson's research into alternative floating point number representations (compared to the IEEE one we're all familiar with), but this looks quite handy! > Enter unum, a stand-alone utility program written in portable Perl which allows you to look up Unicode and HTML characters by name or number, and interconvert numbers in decimal, hexadecimal, and octal bases. Speaking of "looking up by name", I recently discovered that when using any modern emoji picker, their search functions only work by name, barely contain any synonyms (which would help a lot there), and don't even support searching by emoticons. The last bit really surprised me at first - surely searching ":)" or ":-)" should result in a smiley. I can only assume that this is because most emoji pickers work by automatically converting the unicode tables, since manually adding synonyms would be an incredible hassle.