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Charcod.es – Fuzzy Unicode Character Search

17 points| msiebuhr | 10 years ago |charcod.es | reply

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[+] pluma|10 years ago|reply
Looks useful. If it had query URLs I could use to define a custom search in Google Chrome (e.g. http://charcode.es/?q=%s) it would be nearly perfect.

EDIT: It does: http://charcod.es/#%s works fine

[+] ippa|10 years ago|reply
Nice! I've been using other similar services but this looks lightweight and fast with decent search.

Would it be possible to show ios/android-icons (how they look or even exists) for each code?

That question always comes up when I use utf8-chars instead of classic image-icons in webprojects.

[+] msiebuhr|10 years ago|reply
Thanks!

I've been pondering about that too (mostly something with having a service worker drawing each char on a canvas, uploading that to a server), but keeping track of OS/Browser/vendor/font-setup/... (let alone getting it all out of the browser) makes it pretty hairy to get right.

[+] breakingcups|10 years ago|reply
> Try out searching for arrows, chess pieces, emojis, arrows

Any reason it lists arrows twice? :)