The absolute leader in the field of character-choosing utilities (which admittedly isn’t very large) is Ergonis’ PopChar. This utility for both Mac OS and Windows has an enormous set of features. PopChar is a tool that saves you from having to do that. It is a small application that runs in the task bar and that contains hundreds of symbols relative to alphabets from all over the world. PopChar helps you get the most out of your font collection. With its crystal-clear interface, PopChar provides a frustration-free way to access any font’s special characters.
Most of your fonts contain thousands of characters, many more than you can access from the keyboard. PopChar makes "typing" of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations.
Whenever you need a special character, PopChar is there to help. Click the "P" in the menu bar to display a table of characters. Select the desired character and it instantly appears in your document.
PopChar works with all modern applications that support Unicode. It makes it easy to navigate and search within fonts that contain thousands of characters. Search for characters by their names, find fonts that contain certain characters, explore the character set of fonts, collect your favorite characters, insert HTML symbols. PopChar makes all these font-related tasks easy.
You can even take a new look at fonts from a designer's perspective ? see font previews, check out what a given text fragment looks like in a certain font, and much more.
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Fortunately, there is a solution for this kind of problem: PopChar - the user-friendly character map. It is easy to use and even easier to access, because this character map sits quietly in your user tray. PopChar makes 'typing' of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations. Whenever you need a special character, it is there - no matter what application you're currently using. Click the 'P' in the menu bar to display a table of characters. Select the desired character and it instantly appears in your document.
Main Features
Inserts special characters right into your document - no font cheat sheet, no copy & paste, no need to remember keyboard combinations
Much easier to use than the standard character map: click and insert selected special and foreign characters
Simple to use: Just click and select
Search for characters by name, by Unicode number or by simply pasting some text from your document into the search field.
Magnifier tool provides an enlarged view to see all details of characters including their position relative to the baseline.
Recent characters view for instant access to your frequently used characters
Flexible user interface to satisfy the individual needs of different users
Displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters.
Automatically detects the current font in many popular applications (including Word, Excel, Illustrator, PageMaker).
Optimized font menu that contains only the most recently used fonts, giving quick access to the required font, even with hundreds of fonts installed
Full Unicode support with different comfortable views and pop-up menu for quick navigation among groups of characters.
Various insertion modes: Insert characters as plain or formatted text
Inserts HTML symbols
Context menu allows you to copy the selected character to the clipboard in various formats (including Unicode number and HTML code).
Hot key activation
Automatically starts at login
Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10
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