So you end up here usually from Google, and want to try different stuff.
But how do you print and convert all these character sets?
Here I list a few useful one-liners.
In Powershell:
# Print character with the Unicode point (U+<hexcode>) using this: [char]0x2550# With Python installed, you can print the unicode character from U+xxxx with:python -c 'print(u"\u2585")'If you have more Powershell trix or shortcuts, please comment.
In Bash, you'd appreciate the iconv, hexdump and xxd from the libiconv and util-linux packages (probably named differently on other *nix distros.)
# To print the 3-byte hex code for a Unicode character:printf "\\\x%s" $(printf '═'|xxd -p -c1 -u)#\xE2\x95\x90# To print the Unicode character represented by hex string:printf '\xE2\x96\x85'#▅# To convert from UTF-16LE to Unicodeecho -en "════"| iconv -f UTF-16LE -t UNICODEFFFE# To convert a string into hex: echo -en '═�'| xxd -g 1#00000000: e2 95 90 ef bf bd# To convert a string into binary:echo -en '═�\n'| xxd -b#00000000: 11100010 10010101 10010000 11101111 10111111 10111101 ......#00000006: 00001010# To convert a binary string into hex:printf '%x\n'"$((2#111000111000000110000010))"#e38182