Announcing Unicode Lookup

Over the weekend I built Unicode Lookup, a tool that lets you search for any Unicode character by name, or by codepoint number. A table of the characters with their decimal, octal, hex, and HTML entity representations is shown as results.

The core purpose of the tool is to aid web-development by making it easy to find the HTML entity for any character. It’s also useful for finding a character by class (e.g. math symbols) for copy & paste into documents.

As ASCII is a subset of Unicode, the tool also serves as a full ASCII (and Latin-1 etc) character reference.

Unicode Lookup is based on John Walker’s command-line tool unum.