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Plain Reports

Use --output plain to read a Unicode analysis report without starting the TUI. See Non-interactive Usage for input, redirection, and exit codes.

Examples

Single Code Point

sauva -o plain U+00BD
Show the complete plain output 
Identity
  Character: "\u00BD"
  Code Point: U+00BD
  Primary Name: VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
  Plane: 0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  Block: Latin-1 Supplement

Classification
  General Category: No — Other Number
  Script: Common
  Age: 1.1
  East Asian Width: A — Ambiguous
  Bidi Class: ON — Other Neutral

Numeric
  Numeric Type: Numeric
  Numeric Value: 1/2

Encoding
  UTF-8: C2 BD
  UTF-16: 00BD
  HTML Decimal: ½
  HTML Hex: ½
  Rust char: '\u{BD}'
  Unicode Escape: \u00BD

Normalization
  Decomposition Type: Compatibility — fraction
  Decomposition:
    U+0031 DIGIT ONE
    U+2044 FRACTION SLASH
    U+0032 DIGIT TWO

Data
  Unicode Version: 17.0.0

Text Analysis
  CP: 1  UTF-8 Bytes: 2  UTF-16 Units: 1  GC: 1

Normalization Forms
  Form  State      CP  UTF-8 Bytes  UTF-16 Units  GC  Result
  NFC   unchanged  1   2            1             1   "\u00BD"
  NFD   unchanged  1   2            1             1   "\u00BD"
  NFKC  changed    3   5            3             3   "1\u20442"
  NFKD  changed    3   5            3             3   "1\u20442"

Text

The accent below is U+0301 following U+0041:

sauva -o plain --text 'Á😀'
Show the complete plain output 
Input: "A\u0301\uD83D\uDE00"
CP: 3  UTF-8 Bytes: 7  UTF-16 Units: 4  GC: 2

Positions: CP# / GC# are 1-based; byte / unit ranges are 0-based, end-exclusive.
CP#  GC#  Code Point  UTF-8 Bytes  UTF-16 Units  Name
1    1    U+0041      [0,1)        [0,1)         LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
2    1    U+0301      [1,3)        [1,2)         COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT
3    2    U+1F600     [3,7)        [2,4)         GRINNING FACE

Normalization Forms
  Form  State      CP  UTF-8 Bytes  UTF-16 Units  GC  Result
  NFC   changed    2   6            3             2   "\u00C1\uD83D\uDE00"
  NFD   unchanged  3   7            4             2   "A\u0301\uD83D\uDE00"
  NFKC  changed    2   6            3             2   "\u00C1\uD83D\uDE00"
  NFKD  unchanged  3   7            4             2   "A\u0301\uD83D\uDE00"

Unicode Version: 17.0.0

Report Contents

InputContents
One code pointThe Inspector's Relevant properties, followed by text counts and normalization results
Multiple code pointsThe original input, text counts, an ordered list of code points with names and positions, and normalization results
A surrogate code pointUnicode properties, with reasons for unavailable character, encoding, and text-analysis values

CP counts code points; GC counts extended grapheme clusters. UTF-8 counts bytes; UTF-16 counts 16-bit code units. In the code point list, CP# and GC# start at 1. Ranges start at 0, include the start, and exclude the end.

Each normalization form includes its changed or unchanged state, complete result, and all four counts. A single character's Decomposition property is its direct mapping, separate from the whole-text normalization results. Numeric values preserve exact fractions such as 1/2.

Input, Character, and normalized text use the same quoted representation as json-string, escaping non-ASCII characters and controls.

Use JSON Reports for scripts or complete properties for every code point.