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Charcod.es – Fuzzy Unicode Character Search (charcod.es)
17 points by msiebuhr 3926 days ago
3 comments
pluma 3926 days ago
Looks useful. If it had query URLs I could use to define a custom search in Google Chrome (e.g. http://charcode.es/?q=%s) it would be nearly perfect.

EDIT: It does: http://charcod.es/#%s works fine

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msiebuhr 3926 days ago
Author here

I use the fragment-identifier for that, ex http://charcod.es/#foobar. Also, check https://github.com/msiebuhr/charcod.es/blob/master/http-pub/... for doing searches directly.

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pluma 3926 days ago
Yeah, I noticed Google Chrome recognized it automatically. I just didn't see it at first because the fragment identifier wasn't updated when I searched.
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msiebuhr 3926 days ago
That'd be OpenSearch (http://www.opensearch.org/) in action.
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ippa 3926 days ago
Nice! I've been using other similar services but this looks lightweight and fast with decent search.

Would it be possible to show ios/android-icons (how they look or even exists) for each code?

That question always comes up when I use utf8-chars instead of classic image-icons in webprojects.

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msiebuhr 3926 days ago
Thanks!

I've been pondering about that too (mostly something with having a service worker drawing each char on a canvas, uploading that to a server), but keeping track of OS/Browser/vendor/font-setup/... (let alone getting it all out of the browser) makes it pretty hairy to get right.

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ippa 3926 days ago
I think something simple would add alot of value and separate you from other similar services :). Wouldn't be wrong with icons from os/browsers but just he 2 biggest would add value too.

For example if I see the icon from the most common IOS-version looks bad I won't be using that particular charcode.

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breakingcups 3925 days ago
> Try out searching for arrows, chess pieces, emojis, arrows

Any reason it lists arrows twice? :)

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