Web authors who use characters from other languages, mathematical
symbols, fancy punctuation, and other typographic embellishment in
their documents often find themselves juggling the Unicode book, an
HTML entity reference, and a programmer's calculator to convert back
and forth between the various representations. This stand-alone
command line Perl program contains complete databases of Unicode
characters and character blocks and HTML/XHTML named character references, and
permits easy lookup and interconversion among all the formats,
including octal, decimal, and hexadecimal numbers. The program works
best on a recent version of Perl, such as v5.8.5 or later, but
requires no Perl library modules.
New version 3.4-14.0.0 (September 2021) updates to the Unicode
14.0.0 standard and the new scripts, characters, and emoji it adds.