BabelMap!

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.

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

Shapecatcher is a new website, that helps you to find specific Unicode characters, just by sketching their shape. Currently about 10000 of the most important Unicode characters are compared to your sketch and are analysed for similarities. It can find the most similar character shapes for your drawing.

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!

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.

FindThatFont! is a handy tool that allows to preview fonts that are installed on your system and to classify them into over 30 different categories.

Installed font viewer is a small application that enables you to view a list of all the fonts installed on your computer.

Opcion font viewer is a free and open source font viewer written in Java. It allows you to view both installed and uninstalled fonts and makes selecting the right font for your project quick and easy.

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

Extra Keys is a software input panel for typing international accented and other special characters.