Version 2.0
Review – “All Unicode Standard, Character Map for iPhone”
App developer: Ziga Kranjec
Website: http://wiki.ljudmila.org/index.php/Unicode_Maps
Have you ever found yourself wishing you could bring up your Character Map, the one we’re all familiar with using on our PCs on your iPhone or iPad? Luckily, we have this App for a handy reference guide.
This is a very, very simple App, so it won’t take much explanation. It’s basically a reference for All Unicode characters. They’re sorted within their own Blocks – and aren’t particularly easy to navigate, but very still a great reference and useful in its own way.
Within each of the blocks you can select a character, and from within that page you have the option to copy to clipboard (for use in any other App/Email or Text), or go directly to the Wikipedia Article explaining the character – and added touch that I consider thoughtful and smart.
For the average user you might not think you have much use for this, but keep in mind that there are lots of people who use their iPhones and iPads for business, particularly international Business purposes. Anybody who wants to make sure that they can use and find characters from other languages should definitely consider getting this App. Especially since it’s a Universal App, one download and it works great on both iPhone and iPad.
Another set of people who may find this App particularly useful is developers who are trying to find groups of characters sets to include within their own Apps, or find out which characters are supported by the current firmware. In addition to using the Wikipedia links as a reference for the characters themselves.
Although I am sadly a little disappointed that there is not a search function within the App. I was hoping that I could copy/paste a character I had found online to find which character set it belonged to, and similar characters.
One last thing I’ll mention is that I was surprised to find a number of what I consider Emoji to be included – I did not know that there were any full-color Unicode characters. See:
I’m surprised to have noticed that within even the short time that I had this App on my iPhone, I had used it twice, once within the attempted search feature I mentioned, but once to honestly use a character that wasn’t included in the regular keyboard set for an email. I think that you’ll be surprised at how useful this App might turn out to be.
~ChantelleJoy
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