ascii2script

#!/bin/bash
# Ascii to high unicode script -- Usage: ascii2script "text"
s=$(printf "%s" "$*")
for ((j=0; j<${#s}; j++)); do
  printf -vd "%d" "'${s:j:1}"                           # decimal ordinal
  (( d >= 65 && d <=90 )) && (( d += -65 +0x1D4D0 ))    # A-Z
  ((d >= 97 && d <= 122 )) && (( d += -97 +0x1D4EA ))   # a-z
  (( d > 255 )) && printf "&#x$(printf '%X' $d);"       # HTML entity
  (( d < 256 )) && printf "%s" "${s:j:1}"               # Echo other stuff
done
echo