BabelMap (Unicode Character Map for Windows)
Overview
BabelMap is a free character map application for Windows that allows you to browse through the entire Unicode character repertoire of nearly 137,000 characters, or search for a particular character by name or by code point. Characters can then be copied to the clipboard for use in any Unicode-aware application. It also provides many useful features and special utilities. BabelMap supports the most recent version of the Unicode Standard, currently Unicode 10.0 (released June 2017).
Summary of Features
These are some of the key features of BabelMap. For more information see the BabelPad Help pages (currently under construction).
- Browse through the entire Unicode code space block by block.
- Display all characters using a single font, or define a composite font with different fonts used to display Unicode blocks.
- Search for any Unicode character by character name; or go to a specified code point.
- Paste any unknown Unicode character into the edit buffer and hit F2 to locate the character.
- Edit buffer supports drag-and drop editing and the user-defined composite font.
- Color code characters in the character grid by Unicode properties or version or script.
- Advanced character search utility which allows you to find all Unicode characters that match specified criteria.
- Character lookup tools for finding Han (CJKV) characters by radical/stroke or by Mandarin or Cantonese readings.
- Character lookup tool for finding Yi (Nuosu) characters by radical/stroke.
- Character lookup tool for finding Tangut characters by reference code.
- Various tools providing detailed information about Unicode versions, scripts, planes, blocks.
- Emoji data tool that lists data about all Unicode-defined emoji, and select single or composite emoji.
- Show all Unicode properties for the selected character.
- Show additional non-Unicode data for Han (CJKV), Tangut and Egyptian Hieroglyph characters.
- Show summary information for all fonts installed on your system.
- Show detailed information about any font on your system, including coverage of Unicode characters.
- Export glyphs for any font to file as images.
Download
BabelMap is free to download and use for personal or commercial purposes. However, if you do find BabelMap useful you are welcome to make a voluntary payment via PayPal (a single payment covers both BabelMap and BabelPad). BabelMap is distributed as a single executable file (no installer). Simply download the zipped file, and then unzip the file BabelMap.exe to the desired location on your computer. BabelMap runs on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
| Software |
Version |
Download Link |
Voluntary Payment |
| BabelMap |
10.0.0.2 (2017-08-08) |
Download |
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| BabelPad |
10.0.0.4 (2017-08-11) |
Download |
The latest version of BabelMap runs on Windows 2000 or later, but an unsupported old version of BabelMap (supporting Unicode 5.1) that runs on Windows 95/98/Me is available for download here.
An unsupported version of BabelMap (supporting Unicode 4.1) that is localized for French, with French character names and Unicode data, is available for download here. A version of BabelMap Online (supporting Unicode 7.0) with French interface and French Unicode data is available here. My great thanks to Patrick Andries, Alain LaBonté, and Francois Yergeau for creating the French Unicode data and for help in translating the user interface for BabelMap and BabelMap Online.
Security
To ensure that the version of BabelMap you run is genuine and is not being used as a vector for malicious activity, please follow these simple rules:
- Only download BabelMap from babelstone.co.uk. Do not download from any other website or accept BabelMap distributed on physical media (such as CD or USB stick) unless you are 100% certain that the source is reliable.
- Do not accept BabelMap.zip if it contains any files other than BabelMap.exe, especially if it contains any file with a dll extension.
- Unzip BabelMap to its own directory (e.g. C:\Users\Me\Documents\BabelMap), and regularly check that no other files have mysteriously appeared in that directory.
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