uni is a small script
that uses the Perl Unicode tables to search for Unicode characters by
name, glyph or hexadecimal codepoint.
% uni gamma
Ɣ 0194 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA
ɣ 0263 LATIN SMALL LETTER GAMMA
ˠ 02E0 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GAMMA
Γ 0393 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA
γ 03B3 GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA
Ϝ 03DC GREEK LETTER DIGAMMA
...
% uni ツ
ツ 30C4 KATAKANA LETTER TU
% uni 00B1
± 00B1 PLUS-MINUS SIGN
The nice thing about this script is that it works everywhere a half-way modern Perl is installed and doesn’t need additional tables or internet access.
NP: Fliehende Stürme—Höhlen sind dunkel