unicode document viewer tool?

Question

Is there a tool out there that provides unicode codepoint display? Kind of like a hex editor except the codepoints would be displayed rather than bytes.

to clarify:

I want to be able to display a document (either a file, or paste what's in the clipboard), and have two views of that document at once,

• the original text including unicode characters displayed normally
• a list of codepoints corresponding to those characters

and it should be able to highlight an individual character in both views so I can see what codepoint corresponds to a particular character I'm interested in.

Read-only features would be fine for what I need, but read-write would also be nice.

Answer 1

Not sure if that's exactly what you ask, but for Windows (you didn't specified a platform...), I found an invaluable tool in BabelMap.

Answer 2

On Windows there are two tools you'll need if you want to study Unicode files BabelPad and BabelMap.

Regarding you question: in order to see the code-points of a Unicode string I just paste the string to BabelMap.

In addition, my favorite editor is Notepad++ and I'm doing a lot of work using Unicode files (I work in i18n field)

Answer 3

dear Jason

I know an open source tool on http://unicode.codeplex.com that you can give it an unlimited string and it gives you entire string Hex Code. you can also give it a series of hexcode and it convert all of it to a complete sentence.

it also include latest Unicode Character Dtabase provided by unicode.org (annex #44) that contains all of unicode 5.2 charactr information.

just take a look, I'm sure you'll be satisfy