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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 5:51 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> I don't have an answer. I have requirements, though:
>
>  * I should be able to get the character by knowing its glyph (shape).
>
>  * It should be very low-level and work system-wide, preferably over the
>    network (I'm typing this over the network).

This probably doesn't meet all your needs, but there are web services
that get you to draw an approximation of a glyph, then present you
with some possible unicode characters to match. I thought there were a
couple of these sites, but on a quick search, I only find one for
unicode glyphs: http://shapecatcher.com/  and another one for TeX
codes: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

-- 
Jerry