Search Unicode is an Alfred 5 Workflow to lookup and reverse lookup Unicode characters and emoji with their names.
Download it at the release page.
You need to install Python 3 on your macOS in order for this to work. You can install that with Homebrew using the command below:
brew install pythonSeeing “‘uni’ cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified”?
It can be resolved by:
- Open Alfred Preferences > Workflows section
- Right-click “Search Unicode” > “Open in Finder”
- Right-click the
uniexecutable and choose “Open” and allow it to run, then quit Terminal or close the window
Thanks valrus (Ian McCowan) for the instructions.
Type u keyword (ex. u superscript) to get a list of characters
matching the keyword.
- Press Return to copy the character to clipboard (ex.
⁰) - Press Cmd + Return to copy its Hex code to clipboard (ex.
U+2070) - Press Option + Return to copy its name to clipboard (ex.
Superscript Zero)
Type u codepoint [[codepoint] ...] (ex. u fffd ff10) to look up characters by its codepoint.
The same 3 options apply here too.
Type e keywords (ex. e face) to look up characters by its codepoint. Press Return to copy the character to clipboard (ex. 😀)
Additionally, you can choose your preferred emoji gender and skin tone in the workflow config. These settings are provided by uni.
Type uid string (ex. uid ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)) to identify characters in a string.
For the first 4 rows (hex sequence, integer sequence, UTF-8 sequence and XML escape sequence):
- Press Return to copy the sequence to clipboard (ex.
28 20 0361 B0 20 035C 0296 20 0361 B0 29)
For the following rows that identifies each individual characters:
- Press Cmd + Return to copy its Hex code to clipboard (ex.
U+2070) - Press Option + Return to copy its name to clipboard (ex.
Superscript Zero)
This workflow depends on resources from:
- arp242/uni 2.7.0 with Unicode 15.1
- Twemoji (jdecked) 15.1.0 for emoji preview
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