This is a web app to quickly look up unicode names from hex codes.

I've recently been using unicode lookup tools a lot during research and I found some to be lacking, buggy, or slow. It turns out that it's super easy to use web workers and a massive text file to make the entire application static and super quick. That's what this is.

A quick, easy, static unicode lookup web app. Try it at https://unicode.emnudge.dev/

Right click the info icon to copy it to your clipboard.

Left click a row to bring up the info view.

Currently there is "Simple Search" and "Advanced Search".

For Simple Search, it accepts:

• character to find (simply type in a single character)
• text to match against description
• regex to match against character (in form /regex/flags)
• glob pattern match against names (in form latin * a)
• codepoint of character
  • decimal form
  • hexidecimal form (in form 0x[number] or U+[number] e.g. 0xfab23 or U+fab23)
  • binary form (in form 0b[number] e.g. 0b1101110)
• codepoint range (in form num1-num2, where num1 and num2 are in dec, hex, or bin form)

Advanced Search is a bit more... advanced. It allows us to create a series of filters, called "rules". These rules can be of 2 types:

• Require
  • requires codepoint to match any of N filters.
  • can chain multiple with the OR button.
• Exclude
  • requires codepoint to NOT match a specific filter.

The following example excludes characters in the BMP and then requires the character to either have the unicode property XID_Start or the property White_Space:

Simple Search will execute while we type. Advanced Search will only execute once pressing the Search button. Simple Search will also execute if we press enter focusing the box.

• Safari does not support any regex unicode property where Script equals one of "Chorasmian", "Dives_Akuru", "Elymaic", "Khitan_Small_Script", "Nandinagari", "Nyiakeng_Puachue_Hmong", "Wancho", or "Yezidi".
  • e.g. /\p{Script=Wancho}/u will throw an error on Safari and is therefore not supported on that browser.
• Anything typed into simple search before all unicode data has loaded will not be searched, even after the unicode data has loaded.
  • Pressing enter while in the text box will perform a search after loading is complete.