UNIHEXGEN(1)

👑 UNIHEXGEN(1) — the group chat manual page 💅

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because today we're learning unihexgen, a General Commands Manual icon from the Unifont universe ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

unihexgen — Generate Unifont 4- or 6-digit hexadecimal glyphs 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

unihexgen startpoint endpoint

that's it. two lil arguments. no cap. 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically unihexgen produces unifont.hex entries for the Unicode code point range from startpoint to endpoint — and yes, those are the two command-line arguments, exactly as written, no extra sauce 🫶

Output goes to STDOUT. periodt. 📤

now here's the cute part, the actual ~encoding lore~:

• if a codepoint is less than or equal to "FFFF" (i.e., 0xFFFF), then a four-digit hexadecimal number gets encoded inside the corresponding Unifont glyph as two digits on each of two rows 🔢
• otherwise (so, anything above that), a six-digit hexadecimal number is encoded as three digits on each of two rows 🔢🔢

the way that it just... packs digits into rows?? lowkey iconic. 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

There are no options.

literally none. zero. the vibe check came back empty and honestly? refreshing. 💅

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🌈 FILES 🌈

• *.hex as output. 🍓

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⭐ EXAMPLE ⭐

say you wanna generate the Private Use Area glyphs in the Unicode range U+E000..U+F8FF — first of all, slay, that's a whole lot of private use energy — then you invoke unihexgen with these arguments:

unihexgen e000 f8ff

and boom, glyphs. no cap. 🔥

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole friend group, fr fr:

• bdfimplode(1), hex2bdf(1), hex2otf(1), hex2sfd(1), hexbraille(1), hexdraw(1), hexkinya(1), hexmerge(1), johab2syllables(1), johab2ucs2(1), unibdf2hex(1), unibmp2hex(1), unibmpbump(1), unicoverage(1), unidup(1), unifont(5), unifont-johab631(5), unifont-viewer(1), unifont1per(1), unifontchojung(1), unifontksx(1), unifontpic(1), unigen-hangul(1), unigencircles(1), unigenwidth(1), unihex2bmp(1), unihex2png(1), unihexfill(1), unihexpose(1), unihexrotate(1), unijohab2html(1), unipagecount(1), unipng2hex(1)

go say hi. they're all so valid. 🌸

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

unihexgen was written by Paul Hardy. king behaviour, honestly. 👑

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🧚 LICENSE 🧚

unihexgen is Copyright © 2013 Paul Hardy.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

(that's the legal tea, bestie — free software, GNU GPL, version 2 or later, your choice 💖)

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💀 BUGS 💀

No known real bugs exist 🎉 — except that this software does not perform extensive error checking on its command-line arguments. so if they're not in the format of the original bitmapped output from unihexgen, all bets are off.

not me warning you that all bets are off 😭 please pass it valid arguments, i am begging 🙈

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and that's the whole page, pookie 🫶 this was UNIHEXGEN(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 2013 Sep 03, and yeah the footer is literally just UNIHEXGEN(1) again because the universe loves symmetry ✨ bye bestie, go generate some hex 💅