PopChar - type special characters and umlauts quickly and easily

PopChar - Easily type umlauts and foreign characters - no need to learn keyboard combinations

Most of your fonts contain thousands of characters, many more than you can access from the keyboard. If you want to get the most out of your fonts, then PopChar is the right tool for you.

PopChar makes "typing" of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations.

Whenever you need a special character, PopChar is there to help. Click the "P" in the menu bar to display a table of characters. Select the desired character and it instantly appears in your document.

PopChar works with modern applications that support Unicode as well as with older applications that support only the smaller ASCII character set. In Unicode mode, PopChar makes it easy to navigate and search within fonts that contain thousands of special characters.

Web designers especially will enjoy the ability to insert HTML symbols.

The current version of PopChar Win is 4.1.

Read the release notes and download the current version.

Want to see PopChar Win in action? Click here to watch a short demo movie.

Believe it or not - PopChar has now been around for over 20 years. Interested in reading more about the milestones in the development of PopChar? Click here to read the History of PopChar.

New in PopChar 4: Work across font boundaries

PopChar's "All" view lets you work with all available characters in any font.

Imagine you need the cubic meters symbol in a text written in Verdana. Searching for "cub" does not yield any results, as the Verdana font does not contain such a symbol. To find a matching font in the regular Unicode view, you would need to click through hundreds of fonts until you find one that contains the desired symbol.

As an alternative, the "All" view displays the entire repertoire of Unicode characters available in any font. The search for "cub" now produces the cube root as well as some metric units cubed, including the symbol for cubic meters. Click the symbol, and PopChar inserts it into your document.

Features, Installation, System Requirements

Main Features

	Inserts special characters right into your document - no font cheat sheet, no copy & paste, no need to remember keyboard combinations
	Simple to use: Just click and select
	Full Unicode support with different comfortable views and pop-up menu for quick navigation among groups of characters.
	Search for characters by name, by Unicode number or by simply pasting some text from your document into the search field.
	Magnifier tool provides an enlarged view to see all details of characters including their position relative to the baseline.
	Work across font boundaries and see all available characters system-wide
	Recent characters view for instant access to your frequently used characters
	Flexible user interface to satisfy the individual needs of different users
	Displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters.
	Automatically detects the current font in many popular applications (including Word, Excel, Illustrator, PageMaker).
	Optimized font menu that contains only the most recently used fonts, giving quick access to the required font, even with hundreds of fonts installed
	Various insertion modes: Insert characters as plain or formatted text
	Inserts HTML symbols
	Context menu allows you to copy the selected character to the clipboard in various formats (including Unicode number and HTML code).
	Hot key activation
	Automatically starts at login

For more details, see the Features page.

Languages

The current version of PopChar Win is available in English and German.

Installation

To install PopChar, download the installer from our downloads page.

Once you have downloaded the installer, just double-click it and follow the steps suggested by the installer. After installation you can immediately start using PopChar Win - no restart required.

As long as you do not have a license key, PopChar Win operates in trial mode: some special characters are dimmed in the PopChar window. You can order a license key online on our order page. When you receive your license key, enter it in the Registration dialog of PopChar Win. The dimmed characters will immediately become active.