List of all unicode's open/close brackets?

Question

What is a list of every unicode bracket-like characters (including, for example: {}[]()<>)? What is a good way to search for unicode characters?

Answer 1

What is a good way to search for unicode characters?

This - obviously - depends on what exactly you plan to do. I build the website http://write-math.com. During my bachelors thesis, I created a symbol classifier (which is now on this website under "classify") which gives users the possibility to draw a symbol and get the LaTeX / unicode result (currently only 369 symbols are supported). This is very nice if you want to typeset a document and search single, specific characters of which you know how they look like / how they are called but not how to write them with LaTeX (or whatever you use for typesetting):

It also has a symbol search feature. It's still in heavy development, but there are 1166 symbols in this database.

For your brackets:

• http://www.martin-thoma.de/write-math/search/?search=bracket
• http://www.martin-thoma.de/write-math/search/?search=parenthesis

unicode.xml (from http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007doc/#source) is also worth a try.