Comfortable work with Unicode

    The purpose of the note is to show one online service for viewing Unicode characters, because it is convenient to look for them in it, and compare it with many similar ones. From time to time it is necessary to find among the set of text characters supported by a certain font, those that most accurately convey the idea or reflect the essence of the statement. This has been used by visitors to various social networks for a long time, where the expressive abilities of symbols have long been appreciated and there are guides listing hundreds or two of interesting symbols. Which ones? The most original, and seemingly unnecessary, serious developers for whom this article is addressed: stars of different shapes, hands, snowmen, watches, emotions.

    Frontend developers need characters to quickly prototype pages. Instead of spending time searching or drawing a character, you can find it in a font, for example, Arial or Helvetica, and create a temporary interface element. Sometimes you need to look and use symbols of a rare language, hieroglyphs. A variety of characters is already available in some fonts of some OSs, it remains only to choose. In programs and the OS itself, there are tools for viewing and selecting characters of any font in the system ( example ). But these tools are not always convenient and do not always provide the necessary information. It becomes necessary at least one online service to take, and quickly (try) to find the right one. Unicode table lookups used to helpon the Internet, but depressed by their appearance, rarity and poor appearance. And here a service recently appears in which the creators decided to fix a number of annoying interface search flaws.

    ... As you know, the road is long to the ideal, but what has been done in a few months makes you think and bookmark the site . There is a development potential. (At the end, there are many links to similar resources for comparison. If you look at everything with a meticulous look, you can make a number of comments, say that there is room to grow. But you need to consider that even in this form the site bypasses analogues in terms of interface convenience and number of features. )

    We give the floor to the creators of the site, taking a few lines from their page "About the project":
    This project aimed to show the Unicode character table beautifully and conveniently. Collect in one place everything that is known about each symbol, each range. Show which characters are used in the writing of which countries of the world. We are constantly working on improving the site and the accuracy of translations into other languages. Speed ​​up page loading. We have big development plans.

    As can be seen in comparison with various sites, in this resource a number of interface solutions are used, which are fully lacking in analogs.

    1 * . The characters represented in the general stream are quite large (18px).
    2. Fields of symbols fill the entire window, without forcing to see differences in information content.
    3 * . Click with the mouse - we see a particularly large symbol with a description in Russian and English.
    4. On the right sidebar - a hint, which group of characters is observed on the screen.
    5. In the same place - a world map indicating the countries where symbols are used or have been applied, an annotation to the group.
    6 * . From the sidebar - a list with a transition to various groups of characters by group names.
    7. Auto-completion of the page when scrolling.
    8*. At the top there is a search field where you can find characters by words from their descriptions.
    9 * . Paradise for symbol fornication.
    *) paragraphs with screenshots;

    From the promise in the future:
    * facilitate copying characters;
    * improved search by characters;
    * use dynamically loaded web fonts to unambiguously display characters on any OS (now everything is only seen through the font-family style : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; )

    * blog post about unicode-table.com

    Other sites representing Unicode characters.

    * List of Unicode characters (Wikipedia - en) , characters are viewed through the default browser font.
    *Symbols represented in Unicode (Wikipedia - ru) , links to Unicode character sets placed on different pages.
    * Unicode Symbol Map from panmental.de , through the default browser font (sections are switched by selection in the drop-down list on the right).
    * http://copypastecharacter.com/symbols . Symbols on a flash that helps to copy to the clipboard with a click.
    * http://ivanov.in/upbar/symbols8.php . Hardcore HTML4 :).
    * http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~tomw/java/unicode.html . Another hardcore.
    * http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/en/general-info/unicode.html . In the form of tables.
    * Unicode character table from 1 to 10,000.

    (There may be better options for working with symbols. Links to such sites or programs are welcome in the comments.)

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