TODO UnicodePicker

[justvanrossum]

TODO UnicodePicker

[colinmford]

I like this little guy, but what are the advantages of having this versus the default Mac OS Character Viewer?

One thing that might be useful (at least for type designers...) is to allow users to search by GNFUL name as well?

[justvanrossum]

Not all that much, but at least these:

• you can use multiple search terms to narrow your search, for example "ara lett" will give you Arabic letters
• gives you a nice list of results, allowing multiple selection
• you can enter unicode literals, like 12BA, U+1234, 0x1234, or glyphname-like Unicode literals like u1234 and uni1234

The GNFUL names are often based on the unicode name, so I bet you can find the right unicode by separating the elements from the GNFUL name by spaces.

It seems the system picker has more keywords than just the unicode name, at least for emoji. Searching for "pile" there also gives the "books" emoji, even though it doesn't have the word "pile" in the name.

[justvanrossum]

The todo items are actually done:

• Popover: I considered, rejected
• Show more: not completely automatic, but clicking ...more... will add 500 more search results.

Therefore I'm closing this.