Re: Is there a way to print unicode characters and the actual code?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 24/02/18 08:53, Peng Yu wrote:
> It seems that `od` does not respect the unicode.
> 
> Is there a tool (maybe different from od) that can print the code in
> odd lines and the unicode character in even lines? Thanks.
> 
> $ od -xc <<< 'exámple'
> 0000000    7865    a1c3    706d    656c    000a
>           e   x   ?   ?   m   p   l   e  \n
> 0000011
> 
> In this particular case, I'd like it to print something like the
> following (positions are omitted). Is there a tool for doing so?
> 
> 65 78 c1 6d 70 6c 65 0a
> e x á m p l e \n

od doesn't support that at present.
Perhaps we could have another -t option to support that.
Note we have to consider alignment. Consider:

$ od -An -tx1 -ta -tc <<< 'exámple'
  65  78  c3  a1  6d  70  6c  65  0a
   e   x   C   !   m   p   l   e  nl
   e   x 303 241   m   p   l   e  \n

cheers,
Pádraig