unicode character viewer. download the unicode data txt file here: https://github.com/latex3/unicode-data/blob/main/UnicodeData.txt

ucv.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
############################
# Unicode Character Viewer #
#          v1.0            #
# ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* #
# Author: Gatlin Johnson   #
#   <gatlin@niltag.net>    #
# ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* #
# Runtime dependencies:    #
# - fzf                    #
# - xclip                  #
# - perl / awk / grep      #
# - toilet (optional)      #
############################

UNICODE_DATA=${UNICODE_DATA:="$HOME/Documents/UnicodeData.txt"}

function viewcodepoint {
  CODEPOINT="${1}"
  CHAR=$(perl -X -e "print pack qq(W*), 0x${CODEPOINT}")
  echo "${CHAR}"
  if command -v toilet &> /dev/null; then
    toilet $CODEPOINT
    toilet -f bigascii12 "${CHAR}"
  else
    echo "Codepoint: $CODEPOINT"
  fi
}

export -f viewcodepoint

cat "${UNICODE_DATA}" | \
  grep -vE '<control>' | \
  awk -v FS=';' \
    'BEGIN { printf "Codepoint\tDescription\tCategory\tNotes\n" } \
           { printf "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", $1, $2, $3, $11 }' | \
  fzf --delimiter='\t' -n1,2 --reverse -i \
    --tabstop 24 \
    --with-nth=2,3 \
    --header-lines 1 \
    --preview-label "╢ unicode character viewer ╟" \
    --preview-window "left,35" \
    --preview 'bash -c "viewcodepoint {1}" && echo {4}' | \
  cut -f1 | \
  xargs -I{} perl -X -e "print pack qq(W*), 0x{}" | \
  xclip -sel clip