v9.3
- Support for Unicode 14.0 (including Emoji 14.0).
- Metrics adjustments for various styles of the system font in Big Sur and Monterey.
- PopChar is now built with the latest compiler and libraries of Xcode 13.0.
v8.6 [Jun 16, 2020]
- PopChar now supports Unicode 13.0.
- Minor improvements in the appearance of dialogs.
- Fixed a bug that caused a crash, mostly during startup with a font management system installed.
v8.5 [Nov 12, 2019]
- PopChar now supports Unicode 12.1.
- PopChar now supports additional font-specific Unicode descriptions (FontAwesome, Material Icons).
- Fixed a bug that made PopChar crash sometimes when reading font information.
- Fixed a bug where pressing ESC did not work properly in the search character field.
v8.4 [Feb 26, 2019]
- PopChar now supports font-specific Unicode descriptions for several fonts (Webdings, Wingdings, Wingding 2, Wingdings 3).
- New mechanism for alternative names in the Unicode standard (currently used to unify lambda/lamda).
- Ctrl mousewheel for increasing/decreasing character size (zooming in/out).
v8.2 [Aug 1, 2018]
- PopChar now supports Unicode 11.0.
- Option for remembering the selected font for all applications (instead of separately per application).
- PopChar now allows to reset all custom font sizes.
- HTML characters can now be inserted in both decimal and hexadecimal notation.
- Highlighting favorite characters outside the favorites block can now be turned on/off.
- Fixed a bug where highlighting of favorite characters did not work in all situations.
- The display of @fonts is now optional.
- Improved preferences dialog.
- Diagnostic messages now contain name of font that may have caused problems.
- Fixed minor bug in diagnostic messages (newlines).
- Fixed optical glitch in displaying HTML codes.
- Clearer instructions in auto-generated support e-mail messages.
v7.2 [Feb 9, 2016]
"Check for updates" now considers system requirements.
As recommended by Microsoft, the installer now simply creates a shortcut to PopChar in the common Start Menu Programs folder instead of creating a Start Menu folder for the application.
As recommended by Microsoft, the installer will show the "Select Start Menu Folder" and the "Select Destination Location" wizard pages unless a previous version of PopChar already exists.
PopChar now has a workaround to support Inspiration Pro 2014.
Fixes a bug where the current OS version had not been identified correctly.
Minor optical improvement in status bar.
Fixes a bug that sometimes caused a crash during the launch of PopChar.
v7.0 [Jul 22, 2015]
Graphical shape finder for finding characters by drawing the desired shape.
Find similar shapes.
Prepared to run smoothly on Windows 10.
New window layout with permanently visible font list.
Font filter for limiting the font list to fonts that match a given text.
PopChar can now export and import the favorite characters to and from a text file.
Improved Unicode description in help documentation.
v6.1 [Aug 13, 2013]
- PopChar now has considerably improved keyboard support.
- Pressing ESC in the search text ends the search process and sets the focus back to the popchar window.
- Ctrl+digit keyboard shortcuts for switching the current view.
- Pressing ESC in a dialog does not close the PopChar window also any more.
- German umlauts can now be used to search for German Unicode names.
- Fixed a bug where resizing the window resulted in a white space before the Favorites block.
- Fixed a bug where wrong search result had been shown after a search for 'Number' or 'Unnamed'.
- Background version checks polled too frequently in certain situations.
- Clearing the search field did not refresh the character view correctly.
v5.4 [Sep 8, 2012]
PopChar 5.4 can now display the number of fonts for each of the different categories in the font list window.
v5.3 [Feb 26, 2012]
* In addition to "plain", PopChar now also supports the font styles "bold" and "italic".
* Improves handling of lowercase characters in license keys.
* Improvements in the display of the font list window.
* Minor improvement in the display of the magnify window.
* Fixes a crash that occurred in rare situations during the start of PopChar.
v5.2 [Aug 9, 2011]
Different fonts have different metrics. Whereas the characters of one font may appear large enough in PopChar's table, another font may have light and small characters with subtle details.
Starting with PopChar 5.2, you can use the slider at the bottom of the PopChar window to individually adjust the sizes of certain fonts.
v4.0 [Mar 3, 2009]
PopChar's "All" view lets you work with all available characters in any font.
