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I've long wanted a simple way to go from Unicode hex values to actual characters, mostly so I can test out using non-English characters in my code. Thanks to fontboard -- a great source for MS-Windows i18n tips and howtos -- I finally have any easy way: WordPad.

If you type in the hex (of "code point" for super-technical) for a Unicode characters (all nicely listed in the Unicode charts PDFs),

and then press Alt-X, the hex gets converted to it's Unicode glyph,

Isn't that awesome?! (OK, so I'm a dork.)

If you've got a standard MS-Windows install, you might need to get special font packs for some of the non-Western code points.