Карта символов Windows: Просмотр и копирование специальных символов

Windows utility displaying characters in a font

Character Map is a utility included with Microsoft Windows operating systems and is used to view the characters in any installed font, to check what keyboard input (Alt code) is used to enter those characters, and to copy characters to the clipboard in lieu of typing them. Other operating systems have apps which do the same things that Character Map does; for example, Apple MacOS Character Viewer (formerly Character Palette).

The tool is usually useful for entering special characters. A secondary character map program is accessible in a text field on Windows 10 computers, using the keyboard shortcut , or the key in Windows 10's virtual touch keyboard, which is mainly used for the purposes of using emoji, but also allows access to a smaller set of special characters. The Windows NT series of operating systems from Workstation and Server 4.0 build 1381 and the Windows 9x series from Windows 95 onwards also contain the character map, as do versions of Windows CE using a GUI based on these systems' explorer. exe, introduced with Windows 95. Another version of the character map is found in the Progman. exe based Windows 3.11 and Windows NT 3.51.

Other operating systems such as some Unix Linux variants with GUIs, the HP 48 series graphing calculators and others also have a similar accessory. The OS/2 analogue of the character map called the Characters Map is available from third parties for systems from OS/2 Warp 3 onwards to current ArcaOS versions. The MacOS version is included in the Font Book app, and is shown when viewing the "Repertoire" of a font. A Linux GNUstep character map application, "Charmap", is developed by GNU Savannah.