PopChar - type special characters and umlauts quickly and easily

PopChar - Easily type umlauts and foreign characters - no need to learn keyboard combinations

Tired of searching and remembering keyboard combinations for umlauts and other special characters? Do you know anyone with a name that contains special characters or umlauts? Perhaps you have a sister-in-law who's called Hélène? Or a colleague whose name is Bergström, and who insists that the dots above the o can't be ignored? If you've ever had to type their names, you'll know how tedious it can be to type these umlauts and special characters.

Fortunately, there is a solution for this kind of problem: PopChar - the user-friendly character map. It is easy to use and even easier to access, because this character map sits quietly in your user tray. PopChar makes "typing" of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations. Whenever you need a special character, it is there - no matter what application you're currently using. Click the "P" in the menu bar to display a table of characters. Select the desired character and it instantly appears in your document.

Want to see PopChar Win in action? Click here to watch a short demo movie.

PopChar supports Unicode fonts with thousands of characters available. Just switch from ASCII to Unicode to see all of them, neatly arranged in the standard Unicode categories.

Web designers will especially enjoy the ability to insert HTML symbols.

PopChar Win is the Windows sibling of PopChar Pro and PopChar X, which have been available on the Macintosh for many years. Now you can enjoy the ease of use of these award-wining Macintosh utilities on Windows platforms. Give it a try and you won't want to use the traditional Character Map anymore.

The current version of PopChar Win is 3.4. Feel free to download the current version from here.

Features, Installation, System Requirements

Main Features

	Inserts special characters right into your document - no font cheat sheet, no copy & paste, no need to remember keyboard combinations
	Much easier to use than the standard character map: click and insert selected special and foreign characters
	Simple to use: Just click and select
	Search for characters by name, by Unicode number or by simply pasting some text from your document into the search field.
	Magnifier tool provides an enlarged view to see all details of characters including their position relative to the baseline.
	Recent characters view for instant access to your frequently used characters
	Flexible user interface to satisfy the individual needs of different users
	Displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters.
	Automatically detects the current font in many popular applications (including Word, Excel, Illustrator, PageMaker).
	Optimized font menu that contains only the most recently used fonts, giving quick access to the required font, even with hundreds of fonts installed
	Full Unicode support with different comfortable views and pop-up menu for quick navigation among groups of characters.
	Various insertion modes: Insert characters as plain or formatted text
	Inserts HTML symbols
	Context menu allows you to copy the selected character to the clipboard in various formats (including Unicode number and HTML code).
	Hot key activation
	Automatically starts at login

For more details, see the Features page.

Languages

The current version of PopChar Win is available in English and German.

Installation

To install PopChar, download the installer from our downloads page.

Once you have downloaded the installer, just double-click it and follow the steps suggested by the installer. After installation you can immediately start using PopChar Win - no restart required.

As long as you do not have a license key, PopChar Win operates in trial mode: some special characters are dimmed in the PopChar window. You can order a license key online on our order page. When you receive your license key, enter it in the Registration dialog of PopChar Win. The dimmed characters will immediately become active.