This reminds me of a struggle I've run into lately. Can anyone recommend a convenient way to identify an individual Unicode character or string of characters? Ideally I'd like to be able to e.g. highlight one of these weird ligatures, or a whitespace that I want to identify, or an emoji my font doesn't support and select something like "identity this character" from the context menu to see what symbol or series of sy…
A context menu operation will be platform-specific, and I don't think you mentioned your platform(s). On MacOS, I used to use https://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/ (which also does HTML entities). If you're OK with a command line tool, I just finished updating and finally publishing a Python script I wrote for that purpose around 15 years ago: https://pypi.org/project/unicode-name-inquiry/ Lots of options, but de…
I've been teaching myself python on the side in order to automate parts of my job so it would be neat to see it used here.