Latin character picker 10

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Quick start: (You must have JavaScript enabled.) Click on characters/shapes to insert text into the output field or use your keyboard for Latin characters, delete, etc. You can also add codepoints and escapes via the "Add codepoint" field (hit return to add to the output field).; Then cut & paste the result to your document, or use the tabs to get further information about the characters. You can also paste text into the output field to get information about it. Use the yellow box to set preferences or search (regular expressions allowed - for example, to find the letter GA, enter \bga\b, or the short form :ga:).; There is only one view available for this picker, and it is shaped-based (so, for example, the long s with high stroke can be found next to f). Characters are mostly grouped by association with the shapes of ASCII letters (though sometimes this includes various possible shapes for a letter). There are also separate groups for combining marks. Within a group, characters are grouped first by shape. Capitals are grouped separately to lowercase. Then they are ordered so that similar shapes are close by each other. Where characters have diacritics, the higher the diacritic, the nearer it will be to the beginning of the group.; It isn't easy to develop an all-embracing theory for the ordering of so many characters in the time I have available, but hopefully what I did will prove workable enough.; I strongly recommend you download the free Doulos SIL font, or one of the other free, and excellent Latin fonts from SIL, in order to see the resulting text.
About the chart: Includes all characters from the following character blocks in Unicode 5.2: Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Latin Extended-C, Latin Extended-D, Latin Extended Additional, IPA Extensions, Phonetic Extensions, Phonetic Extensions Supplement. This covers Latin and phonetic characters.; All text is output in Unicode normalisation form NFC by default. You can change to NFD or no normalisation by clicking on the buttons in the yellow area. Note that normalization only takes place when you click on a character - text pasted into the box won't be normalised until you click on another character above, or click on a button in the yellow area. (Note: normalization is turned off for Han characters in this application.)
Other commands: Other info For further information about features of the tool or user interface, see How to use..
Useful URIs: Downloadable TrueType and OpenType fonts: Wazu Japan, Alan Wood; Other pickers
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