Characters is a simple utility application to find and insert unusual characters. It allows you to quickly find the character you are looking for by searching for keywords.
You can also browse characters by categories, such as Punctuation, Pictures, etc.
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Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 51.0 | 17 Sept 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
51.014 Sept 2026
Characters 51.0 release.
New translations:
- Lao
- Maori
- Norwegian Bokmål
The following translations have been updated:
- Belarusian
- Catalan (Valencian)
- Cornish
- Dutch
- German
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Kabyle
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Persian
- Polish
- Santali
- Serbian
- Slovak
50.014 Mar 2026
Characters 50.0 release.
- Improvements to sidebar and search experience
- Add --version cli option
- Fix wrong emoji size when font scaling is enabled
- Include the new CJK block from unicode and update unicode to 17.0
- Port shortcuts to AdwShortcutsDialog
- Port to AdwSidebar
It also comes with translation updates for the following locales:
- Basque
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (China)
- Cornish
- Czech
- Danish
- English (United Kingdom)
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- Georgian
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Interlingua
- Japanese
- Kazakh
- Korean
- Lithuanian
- Nepali
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Occitan
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian (Latin)
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Uighur
- Ukrainian
49.011 Sept 2025
Characters 49.0 release.
- ci: Build flatpak for aarch64 (Alice Mikhaylenko)
- appdata: Set component to "desktop-application" (AsciiWolf)
- appdata: Add branding (Maximiliano Sandoval)
- appdata: Remove kudos (Maximiliano Sandoval)
- Update to CLDR 47 (Alice Mikhaylenko)
- flatpak: Update noto emoji font (Alice Mikhaylenko)
It also comes with translation updates for the following locales:
- Azerbaijani (Ramal Rəhimov)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (Yi-Jyun Pan)
- Interlingua (Emilio Spúlveda)
- Japanese (Takayuki KUSANO)
- Nepali (Pawan Chitrakar)
- Romanian (Antonio Marin)
- Uzbek (Baxrom Raxmatov)
- Uighur (Abduqadir Abliz)
48.014 Mar 2025
Characters 48.0 release.
- Update to CLDR 46.1 (Alice Mikhaylenko)
- Remove the X-GNOME-Utilities category (Daniel Rusek)
- Update libadwaita and glib version requirements (Jeremy Bícha)
It also comes with translation updates for the following locales:
- Arabic (Ali)
- Norwegian Bokmål (Brage Fuglseth)
- Malayalam (Murukesh S Kumar)
- Interlingua (Emilio Sepúlveda)