After authoring last month scripting games puzzle, which involved some scripting around the Unicode standard, I decided to have some fun and write a PowerShell module which interacts directly with the online Unicode Database (UCD) to retrieve the main properties of characters.

Using this module you will be able to retrieve the following information for a single char or for every char in a given string:

• Glyph name
• General category
• Unicode script
• Unicode block
• Unicode version (or age)
• Decimal value
• Hex value
  Here’s a few sample outputs you can get from using the functions in the UnicodeInfo module:

Get-Unicodeinfo '$' Glyph : $ Decimal value : 36 Hexadecimal value : U+0024 General Category : CurrencySymbol Unicode name : DOLLAR SIGN Unicode script : Common Unicode block : BasicLatin Unicode version : 1.1Get-Unicodeinfo ‘Powershell!’ | Format-Table Glyph Decimal value Hexadecimal value General Category Unicode name Unicode script Unicode block Unicode version

P 80 U+0050 UppercaseLetter LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P Latin BasicLatin 1.1 o 111 U+006F LowercaseLetter LATIN SMALL LETTER O Latin BasicLatin 1.1 w 119 U+0077 LowercaseLetter LATIN SMALL LETTER W Latin BasicLatin 1.1 e 101 U+0065 LowercaseLetter LATIN SMALL LETTER E Latin BasicLatin 1.1 r 114 U+0072 LowercaseLetter LATIN SMALL LETTER R Latin BasicLatin 1.1 s 115 U+0073 LowercaseLetter LATIN SMALL LETTER S Latin BasicLatin 1.1 h 104 U+0068 LowercaseLetter LATIN SMALL LETTER H Latin BasicLatin 1.1 e 101 U+0065 LowercaseLetter LATIN SMALL LETTER E Latin BasicLatin 1.1 l 108 U+006C LowercaseLetter LATIN SMALL LETTER L Latin BasicLatin 1.1 l 108 U+006C LowercaseLetter LATIN SMALL LETTER L Latin BasicLatin 1.1 ! 33 U+0021 OtherPunctuation EXCLAMATION MARK Common BasicLatin 1.1`160..170 | % { Get-Unicodeinfo ([char]$_) } | Where ‘General Category’ -eq “CurrencySymbol” | Format-Table Glyph Decimal value Hexadecimal value General Category Unicode name Unicode script Unicode block Unicode version

¢ 162 U+00A2 CurrencySymbol CENT SIGN Common Latin-1Supplement 1.1 £ 163 U+00A3 CurrencySymbol POUND SIGN Common Latin-1Supplement 1.1 ¤ 164 U+00A4 CurrencySymbol CURRENCY SIGN Common Latin-1Supplement 1.1 ¥ 165 U+00A5 CurrencySymbol YEN SIGN Common Latin-1Supplement 1.1 `Before you dive into the code, head over to the blog post I wrote describing each and every one of these properties, how some of them are accessible directly from the .NET framework, and how other less known but still relevant can be extracted from the UCD and integrated to the resulting object:
http://www.happysysadm.com/2016/04/working-with-unicode-scripts-blocks-and.html
The UnicodeInfo module is available on Github:
https://github.com/happysysadm/UnicodeInfo
The module is for sure ‘Work-In-Progress’ so if you find yourself willing to collaborate, you are very welcome to do so!