unicode heaven

With apologies to Rex, here's your new favorite site for the next five minutes: Unicode table for you, from Paul Ford.

There may already be something like it out there, but I couldn't find anything quite like it, and I keep spending time poking around Unicode on Wikipedia and various other sites and finding it hard to get a sense of the whole range of options available.

This is my favorite, "heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel":

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In exchange for the gift Paul gave the web with this page, you should go vote up his panel (well, Zeldman's panel, actually) at SxSW. The gift economy at work!

Comments

[garoo]

Hmm, either I somehow forgot it in my Unicode app for iPhone, or it looks rather different on the device. Could be because it's Helvetica, but I've tried pasting your version in TextEdit and changing the font, and nothing happens... I'm always a little flummoxed by how OS X handles that kind of things anyway.

[markpasc]

Sure looks nice! I would totally prefer Ford's if it had some of the features of The UniSearcher (née Brett's Absolutely Astounding Interactive Searchable Unicode Chart), like boxes for entering codes and characters (as noted in the TODOs), and searching by name.

[Michael Sippey]

We should combine Paul's design sense with the UniSearcher's functionality. Because my God the UniSearcher makes my eyes bleed. :)

[markpasc]

Yeah, I thought searching would be hard but he did in fact put all the character names in that page.

I considered starting a github repo for it but I figured someone else would by the time I had a minute to mess with it.