feature request: alternate output with character descriptions

[nemothorx]

suggest an option which can be passed through to the awk core, to instead use this printf:

printf ("%c\t%s\n", strtonum("0x" $1), $2);

The tab ensures wide characters are seen regardless of terminal, and $2 gives the name of the character - useful both for learning, and for piping the output into grep (eg, fonttable | grep STAR).

[nemothorx]

or perhaps this bit extra, so that the codepoint number can be learnt for typing (by ctrl-shift-u in gnome at least), rather than relying on copy/paste.

printf ("%c\t%s\t%s\n", strtonum("0x" $1), $1, $2);