---
name: "unisurrogate"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "uniutils"
version: "2.28-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/unisurrogate"
---

# unisurrogate(1)

Given a Unicode codepoint outside plane 0, reports its surrogate decomposition

## NAME

unisurr - Given a Unicode codepoint outside plane 0, reports its surrogate decomposition

## SYNOPSIS

**unisurr (\[option flags\]) codepoint**

## DESCRIPTION

*unisurr* reads a Unicode codepoint from the command line and, if it lies outside plane 0, reports its UTF-16 surrogate decomposition. The codepoint may be given in raw hexadecimal or with the prefixes "0x" or "U+".\

## COMMAND LINE FLAGS

- \-h

  Print usage information.

- \-v

  Print version information.

## REFERENCES

Unicode Standard, version 5.1

## AUTHOR

Bill Poser\
 billposer@alum.mit.edu

## LICENSE

GNU General Public License