Character Map!

BabelMap is a free character map application for Windows that allows you to browse through the entire Unicode character repertoire of over 107,000 characters, or search for a particular character by name or by code point. Characters can then be copied to the clipboard for use in any Unicode-aware application. It also provides many useful features and special utilities, as described below. BabelMap always supports the most recent version of the Unicode Standard, currently Unicode 5.2.

WinCompose supports the standard Compose file format. It provides more than 1600 compose rules from the Xorg project and the dotXCompose project. You can add custom rules by creating a file named .XCompose or .XCompose.txt in your %USERPROFILE% directory.

Gucharmap is the GNOME Character Map, based on the Unicode Character Database.

AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents like é Ü ç î æ and special characters like ƒ ² ‰ © £ ± ß ° 1/2 ¿ « » ™ „ in most Windows programs.

The character map that works! PopChar is an application that lets you insert special characters, umlauts and foreign letters into any document. With this character map, there is no need to search for or remember complex keystrokes. Unlike other character maps, it is simple to use - you just click and insert special characters and umlauts. Download a free trial version today!

Mac OS X application to explore Unicode. Analyse and convert Unicode strings for HTML or programming. Supports UniHan, Services, AppleScript and more.

WizKey makes it easy to type accented and other special Unicode characters using a standard US/UK keyboard with easy to remember keyboard shortcuts.

This program has tiny size (500 kb in RAR) and ability ti set manually a range from which all UTF-symbols would be generated. Result are sorting horizontally by default. As the author say, list of vertically arranged results is generated a bit slower (I didn't notice that on my slow 2xCores G620, but it takes half a minute). If you want to get whole UTF-8 diapasone plz set range upto 197k chars for now.

FontMap may be used to view and print both installed and external fonts; it can display a table, individual characters, a keyboard view, font description, or whatever text you wish to enter. Individual characters can be displayed in a "full-screen" view and custom table parameters can be set to "zoom" in on a selected portion of a font. National character sets and unicode characters available for a font may also be displayed.

SymbSearch lets you easily get unicode-symbolsso you can simply paste it into your text you are working on.

This small tool shows all true type fonts on a Windows system and allows to browse through all codepoints (characters). See whether your fonts contain chinese, arabic or hebrew characters

List of characters associated with its HTML code.

Make a custom menu to insert favorite Unicode characters in Windows with CatchChar. This menu will consist of only the characters that you use often and add to it. This is different than using Charmap or Keyboard programs that show you the whole character set instead of just your favorite characters.

Advanced character map