Panel/Unicode table for you

BY PAUL FORD August 21, 2009

So I've been out of it for a little while longer than I'd hoped. And I'm back here, like the world's worst ex-boyfriend, to ask for a small favor. I want to ask you to go over to Jeffrey Zeldman's website to read about a panel on which I could, should all go well, appear in March at SXSW, along with some nice people. If you're interested in it go ahead and vote for it. Since I knew I was going to ask you for something I figured I should make you something nice. Here is a simple Unicode browser for people who like looking at characters; you can click on the number below each character to visit its Wikipedia page. Surprisingly many symbols have their own pages. There may already be something like it out there, but I couldn't find anything quite like it, and I keep spending time poking around Unicode on Wikipedia and various other sites and finding it hard to get a sense of the whole range of options available. There's a lot of good stuff up around 9,000. I think my favorite character, however, is ␙, #9241, the SYMBOL FOR END OF MEDIUM. It's hacky--doesn't work in IE7. Otherwise it seems to roll along. It's all on one page (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) and under the GPL/MIT license, so if you have any big ideas go to town. ␙

So I've been out of it for a little while longer than I'd hoped. And I'm back here, like the world's worst ex-boyfriend, to ask for a small favor. I want to ask you to go over to Jeffrey Zeldman's website to read about a panel on which I could, should all go well, appear in March at SXSW, along with some nice people. If you're interested in it go ahead and vote for it.

Since I knew I was going to ask you for something I figured I should make you something nice. Here is a simple Unicode browser for people who like looking at characters; you can click on the number below each character to visit its Wikipedia page. Surprisingly many symbols have their own pages.

There may already be something like it out there, but I couldn't find anything quite like it, and I keep spending time poking around Unicode on Wikipedia and various other sites and finding it hard to get a sense of the whole range of options available.

There's a lot of good stuff up around 9,000. I think my favorite character, however, is ␙, #9241, the SYMBOL FOR END OF MEDIUM.

It's hacky--doesn't work in IE7. Otherwise it seems to roll along. It's all on one page (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) and under the GPL/MIT license, so if you have any big ideas go to town.

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