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What's new in this version:
- PopChar is now ready for Big Sur
- The required minimum system version is now 10.10 (Yosemite)
- Support for Unicode 13.0 (including Emoji 13.0)
- New “Character Info” window with detailed information about any character
- It is now possible to assign custom names to characters, which can be used in the search field
- PopChar can now show all the fonts in which a character is available, along with the character's appearance
- Keyboard equivalents for the context menu items when a character is selected
- Supports the “Brand New Roman” color font
- Built-in layout for Emoji 13.0
- PopChar now knows the names of the characters listed in the “SF Symbols” application
- Built-in layout “SF Symbols” for the symbols in the “San Francisco” fonts
- Improved detection of cases where the text presentation of an Emoji character was not yet supported on the current version of macOS
- Significantly faster type selection in the font list (especially when font names are shown in their own font)
- Improved visibility of the PopChar icon in the translucent menu bar of Big Sur
- Improved representation of the names in the font list for certain special-purpose fonts
- Improved handling of keyboard navigation and shortcuts in the character table view
- Support for system-wide licenses
- Faster search for PopChar character from Typinator's Quick Search
- When invoked from Typinator's Quick Search, PopChar now returns only characters that are available in any installed font
- Metrics adjustments for Apple's new “SF Compact” and “SF Pro” fonts
- Improved visual feedback for certain operations on the selected character
- The “corner P” now uses a representation that is easy to see against any background, especially in Big Sur's translucent menu bar
- Works around a problem where certain hard-wired keyboard shortcuts did not work when the font list was active
- Fixes a vertical alignment issue when Apple Color Emoji characters were displayed in small sizes
- Fixes a problem where some context menu commands sometimes did not correctly process the selected character
- Fixes a problem with horizontally clipped icons in the “San Francisco” fonts
- Works around a crash caused by incorrect ligature definitions in certain fonts
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