The Unicode Toolbar

The Unicode toolbar is switched on and off from Window > Show Toolbar > Unicode or from the contextual menu of the toolbar area and contains the actions Change text orientation with the default shortcut Ctrl + Shift + O and Insert from Character Map

The Change text orientation action enables editing documents in languages with right to left writing (Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). Please note that you may have to set an appropriate Unicode aware font for the editor panel, able to render the characters of the language of the edited file.

The Insert from Character Map action opens a dialog in which you can select one character in the matrix of all characters available in a font and insert it in the edited document. The action is available also in the Edit menu.

The Character Map dialog

The character selected in the character table or an entity with the decimal code or the hexadecimal code of that character can be inserted in the current editor. You will see it in the editor if the editor font is able to render it. The Insert button inserts the selected character in the editor. The Copy button copies it to the clipboard without inserting it in the editor.

A character can be located very quickly in the map if you know the Unicode code: just type the code in the search field above the character map and the character is selected automatically in the map. If the code is hexadecimal the radio button for hexadecimal codes is selected automatically. Selecting a radio button with the mouse starts searching the code in the map.

The Character Map dialog cannot be used to insert Unicode characters in the grid version of a document editor. Accordingly, the Insert button of the dialog will be disabled if the current document is edited in grid mode.