UnicodeFYI — Unicode Tools for AI Agents

Pure Python Unicode character toolkit. Compute 17 encoding representations, look up full Unicode properties (name, category, block, script), resolve 92 HTML entities, and search characters by name — all with zero dependencies (optional fonttools for block/script info).

Install: pip install unicodefyi · Web: unicodefyi.com · API: REST API · npm: npm install unicodefyi

When to Use

• User asks to encode a character in multiple programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, Ruby, Rust, C/C++)
• User needs Unicode properties for a character (name, block, script, category, bidirectionality)
• User wants to look up or reverse-lookup an HTML entity
• User needs UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32 byte representation
• User asks to search for Unicode characters by name (arrows, check marks, math symbols)
• User needs to convert between codepoint and character

Tools

get_encodings(char) -> EncodingInfo