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Shapecatcher – Find Unicode characters by drawing
You need to find a specific Unicode character? With Shapecatcher.com you can search through a database of characters by simply drawing your character into a box. It can find the most similar character shapes for your drawing.
Google recently created Noto, which aims to offer free high-quality typefaces for all languages with a very permissive license (Apache 2.0). I have tested the site succesfully with Firefox 6 and recent versions of Chrome, Opera, Safari. If you get a "Bad Gateway" error, the recognition engine can't be reached or is currently offline.
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