captoinfo
captoinfo is a command-line utility designed to display information about character sets and encodings. It is part of the GNU gettext package, which is widely used for internationalization and localization of software. The primary purpose of captoinfo is to help developers and system administrators understand the properties of different character sets, such as the direction of text flow (left-to-right or right-to-left), the order of bytes within multi-byte characters, and other relevant attributes.
This tool can be particularly useful when dealing with complex character encodings or when troubleshooting issues
captoinfo typically reads information from terminfo or termcap databases, which store terminal-dependent capabilities. When applied to