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Character Map (Charmap.exe) is a utility included with Microsoft Windows operating systems and is used to view the characters in any installed font, to check what keyboard input (Alt code) is used to enter those characters, and to copy characters to the clipboard in lieu of typing them. The tool is usually useful for entering special characters.

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.

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!

Advanced character map

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.

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

iPhone Table View is a great tool to organize thousands of characters.You can brows by categories and individual character code and its name in an organized way.Search provides the ability to find a character not only by the character itself but also by Name, Unicode code point.By enabling UTF-8 display, you can search characters in UTF-8 encoded form (this allows you to decode UTF-8 byte sequence into Unicode code point).If you are debugging text in gdb and wondering what the UTF-8 bytes represents, this is the tool you can decode the bytes into meaningful characters. »

Characters makes it easy for writers, designers and developers to access special characters. They are easily found and copied to your clipboard, either as the character itself or the html code.