Sometimes it is fun to abuse Unicode. For example, the phrase "The Quick Brown Fox jumped over the Lazy Dog" can be rendered using only Unicode codepoints as:

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔔𝔲𝔦𝔠𝔨 𝔅𝔯𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔉𝔬𝔵 𝔧𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔢𝔡 𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔏𝔞𝔷𝔶 𝔇𝔬𝔤 (Blackletter)

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕼𝖚𝖎𝖈𝖐 𝕭𝖗𝖔𝖜𝖓 𝕱𝖔𝖝 𝖏𝖚𝖒𝖕𝖊𝖉 𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕷𝖆𝖟𝖞 𝕯𝖔𝖌 (Blackletter bold)

ɓo◖ ʎzɐ˥ ǝɥʇ ɹǝʌo pǝdɯnɾ xoℲ uʍoɹ𐐒 ʞɔınΌ ǝɥ⊥ (Fipped)

The unifun program allows you to convert text from vanilla Latin characters to these exotic Unicode beasts.

You need to have the Go SDK installed. (See the getting started section of the Go website.) In addition, you'll need to have the gomake progam in your PATH.

If the SDK is installed, you should be able to compile and install the utility with one command:

$ cd /home/foo/bar/unifun # This is the source directory for unifun
$ ./all.bash install

usage: unifun [options] text
  -f="blackletter": Specify which 'font' to use. Use -l to see all.
  -l=false: List fonts and exit.
  -n=false: Don't print trailing newline.

The command is implemented with the help of a package written in Go.

PACKAGE

package uctricks
import "."

A selection of fun unicode 'tricks' to apply to text


FUNCTIONS

func FontList() []string
Return a slice containing all font names.


TYPES

type Font struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
A 'font' is a mapping from rune to rune and (optionally) a function to apply to the text before mapping.

func FontNamed(name string) (*Font, os.Error)
Return a pointer to the font named.

func (f *Font) Apply(s string) string

This code is Copyright 2011 Rich Wareham and is licensed under the 2-clause BSD-license. Full information can be found in the COPYING file.