Option to get code point from character
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:47 pm
What if... we had a dialogue box or input box somewhere that we could paste in a character (unicode!) and Maintype would tell us the code points for that character. For example, the other day I copied an accented ae character from another application and I could paste it well enough into MainTypes "sample" panel and it displays fine - but there was no way to discover the code points for it except by scrolling through the glyph listing and visually hunting for it amoungst the thousands of unicode glyphs! How painful! Finally I gave up and searched through the Unicode Chart pdf that I aquired somewhere... No help from MainType! But if I already know that accented ae is code point 509, there is no problem for Maintype to find THAT. But it can't search by glyph, even though it can display it in the Sample panel.
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