PopChar

If you want to get the most out of your fonts, then PopChar is the right tool for you. Most of your fonts contain thousands of characters, many more than you can access from the keyboard. PopChar makes "typing" of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations. Whenever you need a special character, PopChar is there to help. Click the "P" in the menu bar to display a table of characters. Select the desired character and it instantly appears in your document.

PopChar works with all modern applications that support Unicode. It makes it easy to navigate and search within fonts that contain thousands of characters. Search for characters by their names, find fonts that contain certain characters, explore the character set of fonts, collect your favorite characters, insert HTML symbols. PopChar makes all these font-related tasks easy. You can even take a new look at fonts from a designer's perspective - see font previews, check out what a given text fragment looks like in a certain font, and much more.

What is new in this release:

Version 8.0:

• Custom Layouts: It is now possible to create custom groupings and arrangements for characters.
• New "Recent Characters" section is now always available at the top of the character table, right below the favorite characters.
• Predefined layout that arranges emojis by their meaning.
• It is now possible to link fonts with preferred layouts that work best for these fonts.
• Cleaned-up layouts: The legacy layout ASCII as well as the Recent Characters layout have been removed, as they are no longer needed.
• PopChar now finds and displays ligatures that are available in fonts.
• The "Show x in the Unicode Context" context menu command is now also available for characters in the Favorites group, the new Recent group and in other layouts.
• New view "All Unicode Characters" shows all characters that are defined in the Unicode standard with placeholders for those that do not have a representation in any installed font.
• When selecting "Show x in the Unicode Context", the selected character briefly blinks, so it's easier to find among the other characters.
• The "Show x in the Unicode Context" context menu command now always shows the selected character in the standard "Unicode Blocks" layout.
• Support for Unicode 10.0.
• Fixes a problem where the window size sometimes got reset in certain circumstances
• Corrects the help file text about inserting characters.
• See the product page for further details.

What is new in version 7.2:

• "Check for updates" now considers system requirements.
• As recommended by Microsoft, the installer now simply creates a shortcut to PopChar in the common Start Menu Programs folder instead of creating a Start Menu folder for the application.
• As recommended by Microsoft, the installer will show the "Select Start Menu Folder" and the "Select Destination Location" wizard pages unless a previous version of PopChar already exists.
• PopChar now has a workaround to support Inspiration Pro 2014.
• Fixes a bug where the current OS version had not been identified correctly.
• Minor optical improvement in status bar.
• Fixes a bug that sometimes caused a crash during the launch of PopChar.
• See the product page for further details.

What is new in version 6.3 build 2163:

Version 6.3 build 2163:

• PopChar now supports the printng of font previews and sample texts.
• Unicode fonts were not filtered correctly.
• The font list now gets copied depending on what is displayed in the font window.
• Shortcuts are shown in the PopChar menu.
• Statusbar is now being correctly when switching views.
• In some situations keyboard shortcuts were ignored.

Limitations:

Some characters disabled