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uni2ascii

Converts between UTF-8 and many 7-bit ASCII equivalents and back

GPL-3.0 billposer.org uni2ascii 2 releases newest changed 2 days ago

version4.20 attributeuni2ascii rev

aarch64-darwin b6c8664de9b6cc07fe5666a29f91884ba81197c4 2026-09-29

aarch64-linux b6c8664de9b6cc07fe5666a29f91884ba81197c4 2026-09-29

x86_64-darwin 3d46470bb3030020f7e1361f33514854f5bfa86d 2026-06-27

x86_64-linux b6c8664de9b6cc07fe5666a29f91884ba81197c4 2026-09-29

systems✓ aarch64-darwin✓ aarch64-linux✓ x86_64-darwin✓ x86_64-linux

$ devbox add uni2ascii@4.20

$ nix shell github:NixOS/nixpkgs/b6c8664de9b6cc07fe5666a29f91884ba81197c4#uni2ascii  # aarch64-darwin

$ nix shell github:NixOS/nixpkgs/b6c8664de9b6cc07fe5666a29f91884ba81197c4#uni2ascii  # aarch64-linux

$ nix shell github:NixOS/nixpkgs/3d46470bb3030020f7e1361f33514854f5bfa86d#uni2ascii  # x86_64-darwin

$ nix shell github:NixOS/nixpkgs/b6c8664de9b6cc07fe5666a29f91884ba81197c4#uni2ascii  # x86_64-linux

JSON: /v2/resolve?name=uni2ascii&version=latest

Releases

newest first, as /v2/pkg orders them

Version	arm mac	arm linux	x86 mac	x86 linux	Attribute	Commit	Date	Outputs
4.20resolved	✓	✓	✓	✓	`uni2ascii`	varies	2026-09-29
4.18	✓	✓	✓	✓	`uni2ascii`	b60793b862	2024-07-07

Prereleases are listed but latest never picks one. “varies” means each system last changed at a different nixpkgs commit — the release page lists them.

Description

This package provides conversion in both directions between UTF-8 Unicode and more than thirty 7-bit ASCII equivalents, including RFC 2396 URI format and RFC 2045 Quoted Printable format, the representations used in HTML, SGML, XML, OOXML, the Unicode standard, Rich Text Format, POSIX portable charmaps, POSIX locale specifications, and Apache log files, and the escapes used for including Unicode in Ada, C, Common Lisp, Java, Pascal, Perl, Postscript, Python, Scheme, and Tcl. Such ASCII equivalents are useful when including Unicode text in program source, when debugging, and when entering text into web programs that can handle the Unicode character set but are not 8-bit safe. For example, MovableType, the blog software, truncates posts as soon as it encounters a byte with the high bit set. However, if Unicode is entered in the form of HTML numeric character entities, Movable Type will not garble the post. It also provides ways of converting non-ASCII characters to similar ASCII characters, e.g. by stripping diacritics.