Program information 
- Softonic Rating:
- License:
- Evaluation
- Added:
- October 5, 2006
- Updated:
- June 17, 2008
- Publisher:
- Website
- File size:
- 1.6 MB
- Downloads:
- 75
“Type special characters without knowing the complicated keyboard combinations”
Besides letters and numbers, keyboards have dozens of signs that are used by many languages around the world but which are not always easy to insert. Many of them require strange key combinations that you obviously don't know by heart.
This is why PopChar Win is so useful: it enables you to insert special characters in your writings on the fly, so that you don't waste your time trying different combinations or looking them up on the Internet. I specially liked the way characters are inserted: simply select it with your mouse and it will be copied to whichever text editor or email client is open. Plus, the program's window can be launched with a hotkey and closes immediately after inserting the character.
On the downside, this version is just a demo that doesn't provide access to all characters. Also, I don't understand why the complete text font list is displayed only in a separate window and not under a menu, which would be much easier.
Languages:
English, German
Recent changes in PopChar Win:
- PopChar now supports searching for characters by their decimal and hexadecimal Unicode numbers.
- Entering or pasting arbitrary text in the search field displays the characters used within the text.
- PopChar does no longer destroy the contents of the clipboard when inserting characters.
- Context menu supports copying selected characters to the clipboard in various formats.
- Automatic checking for new versions.
- Support for Unicode 5.1.
- Improved preferences dialog.
- Keyboard navigation and the usage of the search combo has been improved.
- On Windows 2000 PopChar did not adapt itself to the preferred language.
OS requirements for PopChar Win:
- OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP
- Very comfortable to use
- Font list arrangement is awkward
- Doesn't include all characters (demo version)
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From the publisher of PopChar Win
PopChar is an invaluable utility application that lets you insert special characters, accented and foreign letters etc. from all installed fonts into your documents. You never need to search for or remember complex keystrokes again! Just pop up the PopChar window, click the desired character, and the character is inserted into your current document.
PopChar Win is the Windows sibling of the famous PopChar utility, which has been available on the Macintosh for many years. Now you can enjoy the ease of use of these award-wining Macintosh utilities on the Windows platforms. If a font contains Unicode characters, you can check "Unicode" in the Settings menu to see all of them, neatly arranged in the standard Unicode categories.
Features: simple to use, click and select, inserts accented characters, foreign letters and any other characters from all installed fonts, full Unicode support, inserts HTML symbols, remembers and highlights the most recently selected characters, exclude common characters (letters, digits and accents), inserts characters in "styled" or "unstyled" mode, displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters, hot key activation, automatically starts at login and more.
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Reviews for PopChar Win in other languages
- PopChar Win (Testbericht auf Deutsch)
- PopChar Win (Análisis en español)
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