My inability to do a simple task, like call up the international character palette, or even remember its (mostly) system-wide shortcut, is well documented.
That’s why I love something like Copy Paste Char; I’m so much better at remembering URLs. This simple web page will save me whole seconds every year.
I shall now paste in some celebratory glyphs, because I can: (Squiggles omitted — Ed)
(Whether or not they’ll show up properly in your browser, having been mangled in turn by TextMate, WordPress and the browser itself, is a whole nother question entirely.)
8 responses to “That’s what I call a webapp”
http://www.doubleforte.net/wid…
Similar to the webpage, but lives in your dashboard. Let’s you copy html entities as well as normal characters. :)
I use Dashboard app called CharacterPal by Taco Widgets. It also has an option for desktop persistance in case you want to do something like this *this may not work*:
ø ? ? ?
If those are all the characters this app has, then I don’t like it. It’s missing a few. Off the top of my head, I don’t see:
á, ÃÂÂ, ó, ú, ñ (not to mention their upper case equivalents), and ¡
There may be more that I use that are not there, but I can’t remember at this point.
The one thing I really miss from a PC is the alt-number pad combos. Well, that and WordPerfect. But I digress. I used to know about 20 of these cold, and could search for a few others. I know a lot of the option-kay combos, but they’re limited, and not very intuitive, except the accents from macandal, ironically (option+e then the vowel).
For me, a sticky or a widget with the desired characters is a lot faster than a web page. Plus it’s usable without a connection. I organise it according to the characters I use most, and grouped in a way that makes sense to me. I can group arithmetic, punctuation, footnotes, and even a few wingdings. Superscripts can be both exponents and footnotes, so I can put them in both groups.
If you use a 3d-party mouse you can always program one of the buttons to open it for you.