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Version 7.3: Support for Unicode 8.0. PopChar is prepared for El Capitan (solves a problem that resulted in empty character tables). PopChar now includes searchable descriptions and Mandarin pronunciations of Chinese characters, according to the Unicode standard. PopChar now shows a small keyboard symbol next to the keyboard combination for the. 'In Snagit 12 all fonts you have installed in your OS is available in Snagit.' No, they are not. I have a font installed on my Windows 7 Professional machine, and it is available in other applications, but not Snagit 12. I have a ticket open with support. Download Mac PopChar X 8.9.0 Full version – FREE! PopChar helps you get the most out of your font collection.With its crystal-clear interface, PopChar provides a frustration-free way to access any font’s special characters.
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Unicode 11 defines 137,374 characters for text in many languages, emojis, and special symbols for many areas from Alchemy, Astrology, Mathematics, Meteorology to Yijing Hexagrams. Wouldn't it be great to have a single font that contains all these characters?
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Unfortunately, this is not possible, at least not with today's font technologies. OpenType and TrueType fonts contain tables to describe which characters shall appear as which glyphs. And these tables have a limit of 65536 glyphs. A single font therefore can contain at most 48% of the Unicode repertoire. In other words: you need at least three fonts to cover the whole Unicode range.
A practical consequence of this limitation is that the text components of operating systems typically use “fallback strategies” for characters that are not available in the current font. On macOS, the built-in text system tries to find a replacement font that looks similar to the original font. For example, if you write English text in Helvetica or Times and then insert a letter from the Thai alphabet (such as kho khai: ข), the text system looks for a similar font that contains Thai letters (on macOS, Thai letters are usually taken from the Ayuthaya font). Most of the time, you will not even notice that a different font was used for a few characters; the fallback strategy usually “just works”.
In PopChar, the character table typically shows the repertoire of a single font (when the “Characters of Current Font” view is selected).
When you select “Union of All Available Fonts”, PopChar displays all characters that are supported by any of your installed fonts. PopChar still uses the selected font for characters that are available in that font; characters missing in this font are displayed using the default fallback strategy of macOS. Characters that are available in the selected font appear in black; blue characters indicate that they have been taken from a fallback font.
Even then, PopChar cannot find characters that are not available in any of your installed fonts. These characters simply do not exist on your computer, so you cannot use them anyway. But if you are interested to see what you are missing, select “All Unicode Characters”. If a character is not available at all, PopChar displays a red question mark in a box. Here is an example from the “Playing Cards” section in Apple Symbols:
The Unicode standard defines the character with the number 127167 as the “PLAYING CARD RED JOKER”, but the card symbol is not available in any of the installed fonts. PopChar tells you that this symbol theoretically exists, but you cannot use it. You first need to find a font that contains the symbol.
If you want to see what all the defined Unicode characters should look like, check out the Unifont font collection, which is publicly available as part of the GNU project at Unifoundry.com. There are three fonts that you can install:
Unifont, Unifont Upper, and Unifont CSUR. The first two contain most of the characters defined by the Unicode standard. Once you have these fonts installed, PopChar displays the red joker card symbol:
This does not look great. The characters in the font consist of square blocks. 1password 6 safari extension. Here is a section from the Phonetic Extensions:
The jaggy appearance is deliberate. Unifont was created for examining the Unicode character set and as a fallback font to avoid “white spots”, but not as a high-quality font for creating documents.
If you are interested in other fonts that you can actually use for text, check out these alternatives:
- Arial Unicode MS (created by Agfa Monotype) comes pre-installed with macOS. The font contains almost 40000 characters for many languages.
- Google Noto is a family of 200+ fonts in multiple styles for many languages. If you have special interest in languages, the Noto fonts are a good source for characters in a uniform appearance. However, you will need to download and install specialized fonts for individual languages.
- Everson Mono is a monospaced font with almost 10000 characters. It covers a wide range of languages.
- TITUS Cyberbit Basic is a serif font with almost 10000 characters for Indo-German languages. It is available from the University of Frankfurt after filling out an online form.
Note that these fonts and font collections cover only part of the Unicode standard, but most of them contain outlines of high quality, so you can use them to print text in unusual languages, and some of them also contain many special symbols.
For further suggestions, see the Fonts page in the Unicode Resources section of the Unicode consortium.
If you work with multilingual or technical documents, or if you frequently use dingbat fonts, PopChar X 5 will quickly pay for itself. MacWorld Editors' Choice
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Of all the neat utilities I have found for the Mac, one of the most useful has been PopChar X.
TheMacFeed.com I have been using PopChar since it first appeared in 1987. Twenty years and many versions later, I still use it!
Harry Babad, maccompanion.com I find it one of the most indispensable utilities on my Mac. It has always been great and just gets better and better.
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Australia I've used PopChar for a long time. And it just keeps getting better. Super software. Simple to use. Reasonably priced.
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IA, USA
- Version:8.10
- Release Date: May 5, 2020
- System Req:Mac OS X 10.6 or newer
- Languages:EN, DE, FR
- Price: 29.99 €
Most of your fonts contain thousands of characters, many more than you can access from the keyboard.
If you want to get the most out of your fonts, then PopChar is the right tool for you.
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 or their shape, 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.
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With PopChar, you can also take a look at fonts from a designer's perspective – see a font preview, check out what a given text fragment looks like in a certain font, and print beautiful font sheets.
Words cannot describe the huge benefits PopChar offers to you. Get an impression how PopChar can help you to get the most out of your fonts in only three minutes by watching our new short and sweet product videos.
Believe it or not - PopChar has now been around for 30 years. To read more about the milestones in the development of PopChar, see the History of PopChar.
PopChar X 8.10 is the recommended version for use on macOS Catalina (10.15).
PopChar X 8.10 and newer is fully compatible with macOS Catalina, including support for Dark Mode (introduced with Mojave).
In Dark Mode, you even have the choice to see PopChar's character table in a traditional black-on-white view as on paper or a light-on-dark view that blends perfectly with the dark appearance. Since this is a matter of taste, the preferred style can be changed in PopChar's preferences.
If you have already upgraded to Catalina or plan to upgrade soon, we therefore strongly recommend that you upgrade PopChar X to version 8.10.
For more information, please see our compatibility page.
For more information on how to find and insert special characters, visit the Features page
Main features
- Insert special characters
- Extensive emoji support
- Printable font preview and sample text views
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Features marked with are new in PopChar X 8.
Installation
To install PopChar X, download it from our downloads page. PopChar X is distributed as a macOS disk image (DMG). Once you have mounted the disk image, simply double-click the PopChar icon to install and launch PopChar.
As long as you do not have a license key, PopChar operates in trial mode with some special characters disabled.
When you purchase a license key and enter it in the Registration window of PopChar X, the dimmed characters will immediately become active.
Requirements
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- PopChar X 8.x requires Mac OS X 10.6 or newer.
- PopChar X 8.10 or newer is recommended for macOS Catalina (10.15) and macOS Mojave (10.14).
- For further details, see our compatibility page.
Languages
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The current version of PopChar X is available in English, German, and French.
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