Is the uconv utility (a tool from ICU that provides Unicode normalization) available for Mac OS X?
I did not find it in homebrew and searching the web for solutions did not turn out anything useful for me.
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My solution for you:
brew install icu4c
Read the message after install (nothing is at this moment direct available ...):
==> Caveats, This formula is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local.
brew list icu4c | grep uconv
/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/55.1/bin/uconv
/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/55.1/share/man/man1/uconv.1
And after all, here my example for using this tool for normalization (NFC) utf8 text:
/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/55.1/bin/uconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -x NFC ~/Desktop/ue.txt | od -t x1
Not sure if it will suit your needs, but check out iconv which is coming with osx. Try iconv --list to list the supported encodings.
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1It looks like iconv only converts between character sets. Uconv converts text (unicode only) from one form to another equivalent form.– phsAug 23, 2015 at 11:48
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What are you trying to do?
man iconvstates "The iconv program converts text from one encoding to another encoding."man uconvsays "uconv converts [...] from one encoding to another"– madmax1Aug 23, 2015 at 11:54 -
1You may do so using
iconv -f <from_encoding> -t UTF-8-MAC <input>. Note that theutf-8-maccharacter set stands for unicode's NFD– madmax1Aug 23, 2015 at 12:21 -
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utf-8-macis not NFD but a variant of NFD used by HFS+ where certain ranges of characters are not decomposed.printf \\uf900|/usr/local/opt/icu4c/bin/uconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -x NFD|xxd -pprintse8b188(which is decomposed) butprintf \\uf900|iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8-mac|xxd -pprintsefa480(which is not decomposed).– nisetamaAug 12, 2016 at 19:47