CharView allows you to type unusual character

CharView 3.8.2

Main features:
- system-wide utility window (floating above documents windows)
- menu icon (small icon shown in menubar, CharView main window hidden before the user moves the mouse pointer into this icon)
- auto-iconify (if you want it to be visible at any position on the screen as a small icon)
- view font symbols in ASCII (256 chars) or Unicode (entire font)
- auto-zoomed (magnified) symbol in table without a click
- copy symbol to the clipboard and insert it into the frontmost application with one click
- insert symbol, it's HTML entity, decimal or hexadecimal code into the frontmost application with one click from contextual menu
- fully resizable window
- up to 20 of the last used fonts remembered
- fonts grouped by families for fast searching of fonts
- editable font name field for fast switching fonts
- works with all native OS X, OS X Classic applications

http://www.alxsoft.com/mac/charview.html

Buy ($15) / Download (590.9 KB)

character, insert, symbol, show

Popularity	Download	Avg. User Rating	Overall
Popularity	6%	45%	28%

Downloads:	46 / 6 (total / last month)
Updated:	05-11-2007 06:02:58 GMT
Released:	11-10-2007
Language:	English, French, German, Russian
Platform:	Mac OS X 10.2, Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.5
Requirements:	Mac OS X 10.2 and up
Install:	No Install Support

CharView Reviews

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Reviewed by:	nomkartrmu (29-Jul-2007 21:22:32 GMT)
Comment:	Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! rtyrdsptxwy

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Reviewed by:	Titus (23-Jun-2007 23:13:44 GMT)
Comment:	thanks for really good website!

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Wayne (4-Nov-2005 15:29:40 GMT)

Comment:

This software seems to work like a virus. Once it gets into the system 10.3.6, you can't quit it. The little "cent" sign appears in the upper left and the only way to get rid of it is to shut down the computer. Also some of the characters that the pop down menu show appear different when pasted into the Word document.

And even when the program is running the dock icon doesn't show a little arrow.

Not very user friendly.

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Reviewed by:	Desmond R F Foulger (4-Nov-2005 15:29:15 GMT)
Comment:	It works well but takes a very long time at boot-up Looking for fonts. I E-Mailed the author about this but so far have received no reply - still good though as I use spanish characters in some of my correspondence. Perhaps the author may read this and include a cache of some kind so that the app doesnn't search for fonts each time around?

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Reviewed by:	jbmelby (4-Nov-2005 15:28:32 GMT)
Comment:	I'm a long-time user of PopChar Pro, which performs tasks similar to those in CharView--but IMHO CharView does more than PopChar and does it better. I have held off retiring PopChar Pro, however, because CharView has placed an icon in the dock when the application is running, thereby cutting down the available dock real estate. Hacking the application to remove the dock icon is a simple but annoying procedure. But now CharView allows the user the option of either having the icon appear in the dock or not (an option, BTW, that I wish were offered by many other applications as well). With this change, CharView has replaced PopChar Pro on my machine. I recommend it most highly!

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Reviewed by:	B.Briggs (4-Nov-2005 15:27:42 GMT)
Comment:	Nice utility modeled after PopChar, but the problem is that it occupies too much memory sucking hog. Open a terminal window and type in "top". Check the RPRVT column and see what the entry is for CharView. It's taking 15+ Megs on my system. Way too much for something that just provides alternate characters. Even a browser with 10 web pages loaded doesn't use so much RAM. It takes more RAM than anything else that normally runs on my system.

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Reviewed by:	Achim (4-Nov-2005 15:26:14 GMT)
Comment:	Great proggy. Much more handy and customizable than PopChar which is a control panel that stresses the system.

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Reviewed by:	Mr Le Red (4-Nov-2005 15:25:53 GMT)
Comment:	Thanks for the program, it has proven far more useful and easy to use than key caps. May be the interface and the menu bar icon could be improved.

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Reviewed by:	Boris (4-Nov-2005 15:25:24 GMT)
Comment:	Works well. Have some bugs in edit field, but how you can get symbol from page 48 (Unicode) of Osaka font using KeyCaps? Use CharView.

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Reviewed by:	megabyte1 (18-Oct-2005 12:51:30 GMT)
Comment:	If you're a serious graphic designer this program is awesome. If you make your living using fonts and setting a lot of type CharView is worth it's weight in gold. The Built in OSX Character Palette is unbelivablly cumbersome. It doesn't show you the Key combination for any of the characters displayed and it's deadly slow.