Re: [Update] Unicodia 3.2.4

"John C." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.freeware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Allan Higdon wrote:
> "Unicodia is a simple Unicode encyclopedia and replacement for Character
> Map.
> 
> Shows if the character is supported in your system, and if so - which font
> Copy character codes in HTML, UTF-8 and UTF-16
> Simple search
> Little emoji reference
> 
> Note that some features depend on your version of Windows. For Win10/11,
> all characters of Unicode 15 are supported.
> Win7 supports all characters of Base Multilingual Plane, plus
> Phoenician, Aramaic and Brahmi."
> 
> https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=3102
> 
> Home Page
> https://mercury13.github.io/unicodia/
> 
> Release Notes
> https://github.com/Mercury13/unicodia/releases/
> 
> Portable Download
> https://github.com/Mercury13/unicodia/releases/download/v3.2.4/Unicodia-
> w64-3.2.4.7z

This is an incredibly well done portable application. At first I was
concerned when I saw Russian on the home page, given the current war
situation, but the download is available from Github.

OTOH, the location of the home page could be of concern:
________________________________________________________________________

Yes, github.io is officially owned and operated by GitHub. It is the
default domain name used for GitHub Pages, a static web hosting service
that allows users to host websites directly from their GitHub repositories.

🌐 What is github.io?

Official Service: GitHub uses github.io to serve user, organization, and
project websites (e.g., username.github.io).

History: GitHub originally hosted these pages on github.com, but moved
them to the dedicated github.io domain in 2013 to isolate user-generated
website content from the main application domain for security reasons.

⚠️ Important Security NoteWhile the infrastructure belongs to GitHub,
the individual content on any given github.io sub-domain is created and
uploaded by individual users.

Because anyone can create a free GitHub account and launch a github.io
site, malicious actors have occasionally abused the domain to host
phishing pages or fake login forms.

Always verify that you trust the specific username or project before
entering personal credentials or downloading files from an unfamiliar
github.io link.
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Since the download is from the github.com domain, I'm not concerned
about it being malware. I ran an AV scan on the extracted folder and it
came up clean.

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