Unicode Menu

Use the Unicode menu to examine the Unicode character set.

The following options are available:

Characters. This option leads to a further menu containing the following options:
- List All descriptions. Provides a very long listing of all the Unicode characters.
- by Value. Prompts you to enter a Unicode 4-digit hexadecimal value, then returns its description.
- by Char description. Prompts you to enter a partial description of a character, then returns possible matches.
- by block Number. Lists all characters in a given Unicode block in Unicode order.
- by Block descriptions. Lists the Unicode block numbers, the official description of what each block contains, the start and end points in the Unicode set, and the number of characters in the block.
- Ideograph xref. The start of further levels of menu, which are of interest to multibyte users only. These let you do the following:
  Display a listing of how the Unicode ideographic area maps to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean standards
  
  Search for a character in Unicode, given its external character set reference number
  
  Convert between external encodings and standard reference numbers, for example, convert shift-JIS to row and column format
- Mnemonic search. Looks up entries in the MNEMONICS input map by description.
Alphabetics. This option lists the NLS.CS.ALPHAS file. This file contains records that define ranges of code points within which characters are considered to be alphabetic. Use the Ctype category to modify these ranges.
Digits. This option lists the NLS.CS.TYPES file. This file contains records that describe code points normally considered to represent the digits 0 through 9 in different scripts. Use the Numeric category to modify these ranges.
Non-printing. This option lists the NLS.CS.TYPES file. This file contains records that describe code points normally considered to be nonprinting characters. Use the Ctype category to modify these ranges.
case Rules. This option lists the NLS.CS.CASES file. This file describes the normal rules for converting uppercase to lowercase and lowercase to uppercase for all code points in Unicode. Use the Ctype category to modify these ranges.
Exit.