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by evincarofautumn 5226 days ago
This is simply excellent—beautiful and clean and just works. But if you really want points for improvement, I’ll do my best. :P

• For your CJK example, it shows “ZHAN4” for the Pinyin, which would be better rendered as “zhàn”, using tone marks instead of tone numbers.

• When a character name is too long, you omit the “Unicode code point: U+XXXX” altogether (e.g., for U+2918); it would perhaps be better to shorten it first to just “U+XXXX”, or make the layout fluid to allow that column to remain visible.

• It would also be cool to search characters’ descriptive text, such as that shown (and optionally searchable) in the Ubuntu character map. But that might be getting a bit on the extreme side.

• The /search?q=x URL could be prettier—/search/x for instance. Just my obscure personal preference though.