Version 14.0.0 of Unicode was released back in September. There are an plethora of online resources for browsing the Unicode Character Database (UCD):
- Unicode Utilities: Character Properties
- r12a.io UniView
- GlyphWiki
- decodeunicode
- graphemica
- ScriptSource
- FileFormat.info
- Compart Unicode
But they usually have something lacking: the ability to render the codepoints and/or keeping up-to-date with the ever-evolving Unicode standard.
Of course, you can just download the official Unicode code charts as a single PDF and manually cross-reference them with the UCD. But the PDF is over 100MB and the UCD is distributed as a collection of human-unfriendly text files.
Universe is my attempt at producing a client-side HTML/CSS/JavaScript Unicode browser. It's obviously a work in progress, but the main areas of interest (that I plan to cover in subsequent blog posts) are:
- A user interface to navigate around Unicode codepoints, blocks, planes, etc.
- Loading the UCD into the client (this is my biggest concern at present as it takes about ten seconds to load and parse the database).
- A flexible search mechanism.
- Font support.
- A representative rendering of all the codepoints.
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