Glyph search is available in InDesign – why not Illustrator?

I would like to see this across all apps, not just Illustrator

A related request:
Please update the Glyph Panel with a search feature for icon tags in icon fonts.
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/51152191

I love this idea.

It’s somewhat related, not just in general, to this request:
Ability to search Glyphs by name
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/34603993

Currently, if I create a text block to add an icon-font, the default placeholder text prevents the icon font from being displayed in the Glyphs pallet. I have to delete the placeholder text just to see the Glyphs.

But more importantly, I spend a great deal of time digging through these icon fonts to find the icon I need.

What would be ideal is if you would enhance the Glyphs pallet to include a simple text field that would allow me to search within an icon font (or really any font) for a specific character tag.

The enclosed image shows how the Glyph panel could look. You would add a search field to the top of the panel where I could type in an icon search term. In this case "arrow". All of the icons in the font with the tag "arrow" would be highlighted in yellow.

If I select an icon, it turns blue and the associated tags are displayed at the bottom. In this case, I searched for arrow, but wanted the play button. So I could click the Tag button and add the "arrow" tag to that icon for future reference. If I wanted to delete a tag from a font, the popup tag menu would allow me to delete the tag (as well as the close button on the tag itself).

Also, notice that this would allow me to view as a standard glyph table as well as a taglist table. The icons would run vertically in a column with their associated tags to the right of them.

By maintaining the font-icon-tag list in a simple json file or xml or whatever, you could allow new icon font makers to tag their own fonts for convenience. You would only have to tag the fonts in the Adobe Font Library, which I would volunteer to do if it would help make this possible.

If someone added an icon font that had no tags, they would be able to add their own tags.

Please add a Unicode search field to the glyphs panel to make it easier to see glyphs if you know their ID. A search by name would also be very useful but I know that does rely on the vendor having identified them correctly if they are in special use (and outside of the predefined names).
If the field could be prefixed with "U+" then all a user would need to type into the field would be eg: "00A9" to highlight the Copyright symbol (U+00A9).

Please allow us to search for glyphs in the panel, either using the unicode or via the name of the symbol. It is excruciating having to scroll through hundreds of characters hoping that your font supports the correct one.

This is valuable to me because I am a graduate student researcher and I design figures for presentations in Illustrator, but it is challenging to write mathematical symbols without a simple search feature. For example, the partial derivative symbol or the gradient symbol is not available in all fonts, but if I want to find it, I have to search through every line.

Please add a search feature in the Glyphs panel by entering the unicode character, similar to InDesign

In the glyph panel, please add a search field like the one in InDesign. This improves workflow a lot by making it easier to find a particular glyph/character within a font. I especially find it handy when working with Font Awesome to add icons to my work. Font Awesome glyphs all have searchable names, so this works really well in InDesign. It looks like other fonts have searchable names for their characters as well. In InDesign, I was able to search on "del" to find the Delta character in the Garamond font. It's soooo much faster than scrolling through the grid. I would love to have this same workflow efficiency in Illustrator (and Photoshop too).

The Glyph windows is completely, absolutely, omnipresently useless. It serves you nothing else but frustration. What good is a computer for if you cannot use it to perform a simple search? Glyph window without search capabilities is beyond comprehension. The most simple stuff a computer can do for you is search through things and you dare to present a window with thousands of glyphs for the user to squint and manually search it. How insulting! Get rid of ti, and the team behind it too, they know nothing about UX nor software development.

Searching for the right glyph is a true chore, especially with all glyph fonts. Please add the capability to search for glyphs.