Unicode Text Grep

Grep unicode descriptive names and display matching characters. All descriptions are punctuation-free ASCII (low bit). All searches are case insensitive.

grep special characters supported: * + ? . ^ $ []

Matches for space

Terse results:
                      ​     ␠ 　 〿  𝩿 𝪀 󠀠

1. 160     00a0           NO-BREAK SPACE
2. 5760     1680           OGHAM SPACE MARK
3. 8194     2002           EN SPACE
4. 8195     2003           EM SPACE
5. 8196     2004           THREE-PER-EM SPACE
6. 8197     2005           FOUR-PER-EM SPACE
7. 8198     2006           SIX-PER-EM SPACE
8. 8199     2007           FIGURE SPACE
9. 8200     2008           PUNCTUATION SPACE
10. 8201     2009           THIN SPACE
11. 8202     200a           HAIR SPACE
12. 8203     200b     ​     ZERO WIDTH SPACE
13. 8239     202f           NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
14. 8287     205f           MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
15. 9248     2420     ␠     SYMBOL FOR SPACE
16. 12288     3000     　     IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE
17. 12351     303f     〿     IDEOGRAPHIC HALF FILL SPACE
18. 65279     feff          ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE
19. 121471     1da7f     𝩿     SIGNWRITING LOCATION-WALLPLANE SPACE
20. 121472     1da80     𝪀     SIGNWRITING LOCATION-FLOORPLANE SPACE
21. 917536     e0020     󠀠     TAG SPACE

grep special characters supported:

*

0 or more of last

+

1 or more of last

?

0 or 1 of last

.

any single character

^

force (anchor) to be at start (only useful at start)

$

force (anchor) to be at end (only useful at end, and watch out for trailing whitespace!)

[]

character class (normal sequence shortening with - allowed, and ^ at start to invert works)

From your terminal shell, ugrep by hackerb9 may also prove useful.

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