# Installer chars avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de chars pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:chars
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install chars
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#chars
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ch/chars/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:chars
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.7.0
- **Résumé source:** Command-line tool to display information about unicode characters
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/boinkor-net/chars/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/boinkor-net/chars>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- chars (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.7.0
## Historique du projet et usages

Cha(rs) is a command-line Unicode and ASCII character inspection tool.

### Historique du projet

The official README presents Cha(rs) as a Rust command-line tool for displaying names and codes for ASCII and Unicode characters or code points. It explicitly positions the project as inspired by classic ascii(1)-style lookup tools while extending the idea to Unicode and control-character edge cases.

### Historique d'adoption

The README documents installation from source with cargo install and points to operating-system packages including Arch Linux AUR, Homebrew, and Chocolatey. Homebrew packages version 0.7.0 and reports small but steady install counts.

### Modes d'utilisation

Typical usage is running chars with a literal character, a Unicode code point such as U+1F63C, or an ambiguous numeric code, then reading the printed encodings, width, quote form, and Unicode name.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Cha(rs) is package-nerd interesting because it turns Unicode database lookup into a tiny terminal utility distributed through Rust and OS package managers, filling the same quick-reference role that ascii(1) filled for older character sets.

### Chronologie

- 2026: Homebrew formula metadata lists chars 0.7.0 and packages Linux and macOS bottles.
- 2026: Official repository README documents Cargo, Homebrew, AUR, Chocolatey, and source install paths.

### Related projects

- ascii(1)-style character lookup tools are named as inspiration in the official README.
- Rust Cargo is the source and crate installation path documented by the official README.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/chars.json>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/chars>
- <https://github.com/boinkor-net/chars#readme>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - chars: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ch/chars/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/chars.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/chars.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph