Topic: UniView is a Web-based application for working with Unicode characters.

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UniView is a Web-based application for working with Unicode characters.

UniView

Look up and see characters (using graphics or fonts) and property information, view whole character blocks or custom ranges, select characters to paste into your document, paste in and discover unknown characters, search for characters, do hex/dec/ncr conversions, highlight character types, etc. etc.

 UniView is a Web-based application for working with Unicode characters. No need to install anything – just open in a browser. You can look up or find characters (using graphics or fonts) and related information, view whole character blocks or custom ranges, select characters to paste into your document, paste in and discover unknown characters, search for characters using regular expressions, do hex/dec/ncr conversions, highlight character types, etc. etc. It supports Unicode 11.0 and is written with Web Standards to work on a variety of browsers.

You can find the source code on github, and a list of recent changes. If you spot a bug, please raise a github issue.
The Text area is associated with a set of controls for managing characters as text. It makes UniView like a character map or picker tool, but also much more. You can add characters to the text area from other parts of UniView, or you can simply paste text into it for analysis.

The insertion point for characters echoed to the text area can be changed in most browsers by just clicking where you want characters to appear (but not Internet Explorer, where characters are always added to the end of the line). If you highlight a range of text, any typed or echoed characters will replace the highlighted range.


Character list panel
The character list panel is where you will see tables and lists of characters that you generate from elsewhere in UniView.

When characters are displayed in table format and you hover over a character in this area you will see the code point and name appear at the top of the panel.

Whether in table or list format, if you click on a character one of two things will happen. Either details for that character will appear to the right, or the character will be added to the text area. The former is the default, but the latter will happen if you have indicated that it should by clicking on the icon described above.

Unassigned character positions in a table are shown with a greyed out background (though you can change the colour, if you want).

UniView now supports Unicode version 11, which is being released today, including all changes made during the beta period. (As before, images are not available for the Tangut additions, but the character information is available.)

This version of UniView also introduces a new filter feature. Below each block or range of characters is a set of links that allows you to quickly highlight characters with the property letter, mark, number, punctuation, or symbol. For more fine-grained property distinctions, see the Filter panel.

In addition, for some blocks there are other links available that reflect tags assigned to characters. This tagging is far from exhaustive! For instance, clicking on sanskrit will not show all characters used in Sanskrit.

The tags are just intended to be an aid to help you find certain characters quickly by exposing words that appear in the character descriptions or block subsection titles. For example, if you want to find the Bengali currency symbol while viewing the Bengali block, click on currency and all other characters but those related to currency will be dimmed.

(Since the highlight function is used for this, don’t forget that, if you happen to highlight a useful subset of characters and want to work with just those, you can use the Make list from highlights command, or click on the upwards pointing arrow icon below the text area to move those characters into the text area.)

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