[hashhar]

This is really great. Works perfectly and solves a very practical problem for me. Unicode really should do something about discoverability though.

[yorwba]

Using Fcitx on Linux, any Unicode character can be typed using the hotkey for the Unicode addon [1] and typing the description. So if you ever need the "arabic ligature bismillah ar-rahman ar-raheem" (﷽), it's right at your fingertips!

[1] https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Unicode

[hashhar]

Wow. That is awesome. Thanks for leading me to it.

[ygra]

Unicode governs standardization of the character set and related things like algorithms. That is, they are not involved in anything that relates to fonts, input methods, or other more user-facing things.

[riffraff]

out of curisity, why do you usually need to discover unicode symbols?

[mdani]

I am learning to read a new language- urdu. My goal is to read some old hand-written documents so I can't copy-paste the characters. But I can easily draw them and confirm my reading. This is perfect for this purpose.