Character Map
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Character Map A component of Microsoft Windows |
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Character Map is a utility included with Microsoft Windows operating systems and is used to view the characters in any installed font, to check what keyboard input (Alt code) is used to enter those characters, and to copy characters to the clipboard in lieu of typing them. The tool is usually useful for entering special characters.
The Advanced view check box can be used to inspect the character sets in a font according to different encodings (code pages), including Unicode code ranges, to locate particular characters by their Unicode code point and to search for characters by their Unicode name. For Unicode fonts, the characters can be grouped by their Unicode subrange. The tool currently supports code points under U+FFFF, though for reasons unexplained, does not display certain characters in that range.
The Character Map application can be started by:
- Start → Run → charmap.exe
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Character Map Utility Windows XP and Vista
- Using special characters (Character Map): frequently asked questions
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