Need a simple tool for analysing unicode characters

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Published on 2010-02-01T06:00:34Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 7:03 UTC
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I'm surprised I can't find a simple tool for this. Basically, sometimes as a result of text munging, or using some piece of software, I end up with some text that has some troublesome characters - such as looking a lot like other characters, but being distinct from them. I'd like a tool (preferably online, javascript based) where I can paste the text, and it will tell me all the characters involved, their names, unicode codes etc.

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