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 NAME     
 |  |  |  | ascii, unicode – interpret ASCII, Unicode characters 
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 SYNOPSIS     
 |  |  |  | ascii [ −8 ] [ −oxdbn ] [ −nct ] [ text ] 
    
    
    unicode [ −nt ] hexmin−hexmax 
    
    
    unicode [ −t ] hex [ ... ] 
    
    
    unicode [ −n ] characters 
    
    
    look hex /usr/lib/plan9/lib/unicode 
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 DESCRIPTION     
 |  |  |  | Ascii prints the ASCII values corresponding to characters and
    vice versa; under the −8 option, the ISO Latin-1 extensions (codes
    0200-0377) are included. The values are interpreted in a settable
    numeric base; −o specifies octal, −d decimal, −x hexadecimal (the
    default), and −bn base n. 
    
    
    With no arguments, ascii prints a table of the character set in
    the specified base. Characters of text are converted to their
    ASCII values, one per line. If, however, the first text 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:
    −n    Force numeric output. −c    Force character output.
 −t    Convert from numbers to running text; do not interpret control
    characters or insert newlines. 
    
    
    Unicode is similar; it converts between UTF and character values
    from the Unicode Standard (see utf(7)). If given a range of hexadecimal
    numbers, unicode 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 −n option forces numeric output to avoid ambiguity
    with numeric characters. If converting to UTF , the characters
    are printed one per line unless the −t flag is set, in which case
    the output is a single string containing only the specified characters.
    Unlike ascii, unicode treats no characters specially. 
    
    
    The output of ascii and unicode may be unhelpful if the characters
    printed are not available in the current font. 
    
    
    The file /usr/lib/plan9/lib/unicode
    contains a table of characters and descriptions, sorted in hexadecimal
    order, suitable for look(1) on the lower case hex values of characters.
 
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 EXAMPLES     
 |  |  |  | ascii −d 
 unicode p|  |  |  | Print the ASCII table base 10. 
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 unicode 2200−22f1|  |  |  | Print the hex value of ‘p’. 
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 look 039 /usr/lib/plan9/lib/unicode|  |  |  | Print a table of miscellaneous mathematical symbols. 
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 |  |  |  | See the start of the Greek alphabet’s encoding in the Unicode
        Standard. 
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