Unicode Palette Idea

[OpenXTalkPaul]

Not sure what Richmond had in mind 'over there'... but my thought's on a Unicode Palette was that such a palette could use the actual latest listings for the official Unicode Standard (v15.1 at the moment), the list would be tab & line delimited for easy sort/filtering, and have the official unicode glyph name, group, and it's hex (or decimal) value, then you could drag-drop insert the unicode code point into a field from that list (in a similar way to that SVGGlyphs browser that I cooked up does). I already have a handler that generates unicode (code points) glyph char into a text field for looking at the glyphs in Apple's system font SF Symbols). This could also be the basis for a library that has handlers to do things like return code points for any glyphs with matching unicode-spec names, or a handler that returns all members of the list that are in a given category such as Emoji, Dingbats, Music Notation Symbols, or other such categories.

[OpenXTalkPaul]

I extracted the relevant parts that I'd scripted while working on that OXT "Apple Images" library.
The buttons generate a set of unicode code points into a felid with assigned the font to Apple's SF Compact that supports a lot of unicode glyphs. Obviously that will only work on macOS (and only on newer versions of macOS), but there are similar unicode fonts from the FOSS world that could be substituted, the glyphs should be similar art as defined by the Unicode Standard.

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Clicking on list item in the main list puts the glyph/info into the message box:
🖐 Hand With Fingers Splayed - Unicode CodePoint=128400

[richmond62]

https://openxtalk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1034

And, personally I CBA with those incredibly infantile emojis . . .

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