https://github.com/adamkiss/alfred-utf

🔍 Simple Alfred unicode search workflow with preferential treatment to your often used characters
https://github.com/adamkiss/alfred-utf

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🔍 Simple Alfred unicode search workflow with preferential treatment to your often used characters

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/adamkiss/alfred-utf
• Owner: adamkiss
• Created: 2022-12-28T21:19:38.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-30T01:16:23.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-21T01:44:32.569Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: alfred, alfred-workflow, sqlite3
• Language: Shell
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• Size: 18.6 MB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: Readme.md

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README

        
#  Alfred-UTF: Unicode Character Search ![Version badge](https://shields.io/github/v/release/adamkiss/alfred-utf?display_name=tag&include_prereleases&sort=semver)

![Alfred-utf - workflow screenshot](https://repository-images.githubusercontent.com/583129173/ac6a122c-d1a4-4e7d-aaf8-cfaf4141997c)

Simple workflow to replace now defunct Python 2 workflow. Uses pure SQLite3 - with fts5 and json1 extensions - which is still packaged with MacOS, unlike PHP or Python 2 in versions of MacOS 13+.

## Usage

### Search/show:

- `utf right arr` - Search for a Unicode character by full-text matched name, alternative name, html entity or hexadecimal code

- `utf !` - Get details for a single exact character, except

- `utf !h` - get HELP!

- `utf9` - Your top 9 Unicode characters

### Result Actions:

- Default action: copy the character (e.g. `!`)

- Cmd - copy the HTML version (e.g. `!`)

- Option - copy the Unicode point for js/python/… (e.g. `\u0021`)

- OptionCmd - copy the Unicode point for PHP (e.g. `\u{0021}`)

- Ctrl - copy the hex value(e.g. `21`) 

- OptionCtrl - copy the full code point (e.g. `0021`) 

- Use Copy result (Cmd+C) to copy the character name (e.g. `exclamation mark`)

↳ Result actions (except Copy result Cmd+C) also paste to the frontmost app

### Tips

- `utf u0027` - you can prefix the full codepoint with `u`, and the matcher will mostly match this to the character's json value (`\u0027`), which means you get "find a Unicode codepoint" function for free

- `utf larr` - one of the fields matched are html entities - use this for a precise and quick matching

- `utf :raw* query*` - if you prefix your query with a colon, you'll gain access to the underlying technology - and you get to write raw SQLite FTS5 Match Query. Use this power for good

## Installation

1. Download the workflow

2. Use the workflow

## License

MIT License - see [LICENSE](./LICENSE)

© 2022 Adam Kiss. Databased was sourced with [Uni by Martin Tournoij](https://github.com/arp242/uni)