Unicode Search

There are several existing tools for searching for Unicode characters. I have generally used Xah Lee’s one but I wanted to write my own so that I wasn’t just relying on some random guy I didn’t know. I decided that as it would need a GUI it would be a good project for learning Javascript. I ended up using basically the same code for the back-end search in three different tools: there’s a desktop application that uses Electron, the same in a web page on this very site, and a command-line tool.

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