UnicodeChecker Help

# UnicodeChecker Usage Hints

- Scroll bars in Mac OS X have a feature for easier scrolling in large documents which is useful for the character table: If you hold down the Option key while dragging the scroll bar knob, the scrolling speed is slowed down.
- ToolTip help is available in many places (e.g. the fields in the “Properties” tab of the main window have tool tips with human readable descriptions of most properties, most text fields in the string utilities window have tool tips with the numeric codepoints of the displayed string).
- You can use Command-Up and -Down to go to the previous/next codepoint.
- UnicodeChecker provides several useful conversion functions via the Services menu and AppleScript.
- Turning off “Preload Font Menu” in the preferences reduces the memory usage and disk accesses right after starting up UnicodeChecker. However, using the font menu for the first time will take much longer (and the memory used will eventually be the same).
- The “Find Codepoint…” sheet accepts space separated search strings which results in an AND search. If you want a space character to be part of the actual search string, you need to enclose the search (sub-)string in double quotes ("). You can also specify strings that should not appear in the results by prefixing them with a “-”. E.g. the search string “latin -small” will match all codepoints containing the word “latin” AND NOT containing the word “small”.
- Display of font metrics in the current character text view can be toggled using the “Show Font Metrics” command in the “Window” menu.