Tiger Character Palette
I was looking at Mike Clark’s TextMate Cheat Sheet for Rails Hackers a minute ago and saw the Command key sign (⌘, if your font has it). It was the first time I realized that the symbol had to be in a font somewhere (yes, I know, I’m slow :)). And Lucida Grande was the natural font for it to be in. So I went to Finder->Edit->Special Characters and pulled up the Character Palette.
It was different! I’d been using Panther on my Powerbook, so when it came up and had all the Unicode stuff sorted by category, I got goosebumps and started drooling uncontrollably. Then I saw the “By Radical” tab. If only I knew Chinese… But it gets better — they’ve added a Font Variation area at the bottom which shows you the selected character in all the fonts in which it appears. That’s cool. It means I can select a Thai character and instantly see which of my fonts support Thai. I love Macs! :)
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