[AlPe]

glyphIgo v. 1.17 released.

Added a function to retrieve information about a given Unicode character. For example:

$ python glyphIgo.py -l a
[INFO] Lookup results for query 'a'
[INFO] Matched Unicode character 'a'
Name          LATIN SMALL LETTER A
Character     a
Dec Codepoint 97
Hex Codepoint 0x61
Lowercase     a
Uppercase     A
Category      Ll
Bidirectional L
Mirrored      False
NFC           a
NFD           a
[INFO] === === === === === ===

$ python glyphIgo.py -l "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON"
[INFO] Lookup results for query 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON'
[INFO] Matched Unicode character 'Ā'
Name          LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
Character     Ā
Dec Codepoint 256
Hex Codepoint 0x100
Lowercase     ā
Uppercase     Ā
Category      Lu
Bidirectional L
Mirrored      False
NFC           Ā
NFD           Ā
[INFO] === === === === === ===

$ python glyphIgo.py -l d97
[INFO] Lookup results for query 'a'
[INFO] Matched Unicode character 'a'
Name          LATIN SMALL LETTER A
Character     a
Dec Codepoint 97
Hex Codepoint 0x61
Lowercase     a
Uppercase     A
Category      Ll
Bidirectional L
Mirrored      False
NFC           a
NFD           a
[INFO] === === === === === ===

http://code.google.com/p/glyphigo/
http://code.google.com/p/glyphigo/wiki/UsageExamples
http://code.google.com/p/glyphigo/downloads/list