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 latin.*ligature

Terse results:
IJ ij Œ œ ff fi fl ffi ffl ſt st

1. 306     0132     IJ     LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ
2. 307     0133     ij     LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ
3. 338     0152     Œ     LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
4. 339     0153     œ     LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
5. 64256     fb00     ff     LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FF
6. 64257     fb01     fi     LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI
7. 64258     fb02     fl     LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FL
8. 64259     fb03     ffi     LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFI
9. 64260     fb04     ffl     LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFL
10. 64261     fb05     ſt     LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S T
11. 64262     fb06     st     LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ST

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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