Post Description

PopChar X is a utility application that lets you insert special characters, accented letters, umlauts, etc. from all installed fonts into your documents. You never need to search for and remember keystrokes any longer. Just pop up the PopChar window, click the desired character, and the character appears in your current document.

If a font contains Unicode characters, you can see all of them, neatly arranged in the standard Unicode categories.

Features:

Simple to use, just click and select,
Inserts accented characters, foreign letters and any other character from all installed fonts,
Automatic font detection,
Full Unicode support,
Character search function,
Various insertion options,
Insertion of HTML symbols,
Recent characters view,
Displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters,
Automatically starts at login

What's New
Version 6.0.1:

PopChar X 6.0.1 is a maintenance release that fixes small issues in the recently released PopChar X 6.0.
New in PopChar X 6.0:
Streamlined user interface.
New "Font Preview" gives an impression of a selected font by showing a few representative characters and a selectable sample text in multiple font sizes.
New "Sample Text" shows what the font looks like when applied to typical text fragments. Various predefined samples can be selected, and you can use the "Editable Text" variant to customize your own sample text. You can use a slider to quickly view the text samples in various font sizes.
Both the "Font Preview" and the "Sample Text" can be printed to create beautiful font sheets.
Command+digit Keyboard shortcuts for switching the currentview.
Support for Unicode 6.1.
Improved message in the registration window.
Improved insertion of MacRoman characters in applications with limited Unicode support.
ASCII mode is no longer needed.
The ASCII/Unicode/All control has been replaced with a pop-up button with clearer descriptions.
The shown repertoire no longer switches between characters of the current font and the union of all fonts when switching applications.
The "PopChar" pop-up now has a gear wheel symbol.
The Installer's completion sound now plays through the "sound effects" channel and respects the alert volume as defined in System Preferences.
Works around problems caused by corrupted font files.
Faster background scanning of the available fonts.
Fixes the definition of the "Phonetic Symbols" group in "Scripts and Symbols", which incorrectly contained the "Latin Extended-D" Unicode block.
Fixesa problem with searches for character names that returned incorrect characters beyond the basic Unicode plane.
Works around a bug in Mac OS X that resulted in an incorrect list of characters when searching for "unnamed" characters.
Detects the current font in Adobe Illustrator CS3 through CS6.
New technique for adding PopChar to the list of Login Items now also works for Mountain Lion.
Faster startup, less background activity.
Avoids occasional crashes when PopChar updated its internal data structures in reaction to addition or removal of fonts.
Works around issues with recently used fonts that are no longer available.
Works around a problem where the group pop-up was not visible on Lion and Mountain Lion.
See the product page for further details.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later