I use od
to print me the octal or hex of a file/stdin/string. This lets me see the ASCII, or UTF-8 encoded, values of my stdin.
But we don't live in ASCIIland anymore. Is there any command that will print out the unicode values/codepoints for the (presume) utf-8 encoded input? I want to know what unicode characters I'm seeing?
recode UTF-8..dump