A command line interface based unicode char table viewer, optimized for emoticons and other pictographic symbols.

While the Unicode Consortium provides a PDF with all emoticons and special symbols, it is not always desirable to install all necessary fonts on all machines to support every symbol. Instead one may choose to only use existing symbols in terminal applications like mutt, Vim or powerline. This script helps to identify usable symbols and check terminal capabilities.

printf  $ printf '\U1f600'
echo    $ echo -e '\U1f600'
HTML    $ &1f600;
Windows $ [ALT]+[x]1f600
Vim     $ i[C-v]U1f600[ESC]
ibus    $ [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[u]1f600[space]
ibus    $ [CTRL]+[.] ??