diff --git a/SETUP/tests/unittests/ApiTest.php b/SETUP/tests/unittests/ApiTest.php
index ad3794bb1..61ccb3127 100644
--- a/SETUP/tests/unittests/ApiTest.php
+++ b/SETUP/tests/unittests/ApiTest.php
@@ -691,6 +691,20 @@ public function test_validate_text()
         ];
         $this->assertEquals($expected, $response);
     }
+
+    public function test_pickersets()
+    {
+        $project = $this->_create_project();
+        $path = "v1/projects/$project->projectid/pickersets";
+        $query_params = "";
+        $router = ApiRouter::get_router();
+        $_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] = "GET";
+        $response = $router->route($path, $query_params);
+        $this->assertEquals("basic-latin", $response[0]["name"]);
+        $this->assertEquals("!", $response[0]["subsets"][3]["name"]);
+        $this->assertEquals("Punctuation", $response[0]["subsets"][3]["title"]);
+        $this->assertEquals(["0", "DIGIT ZERO"], $response[0]["subsets"][5]["rows"][0][0]);
+    }
 }
 
 // this mocks the function in index.php
diff --git a/api/dp-openapi.yaml b/api/dp-openapi.yaml
index 33ed0d2cd..c0f593868 100644
--- a/api/dp-openapi.yaml
+++ b/api/dp-openapi.yaml
@@ -979,6 +979,66 @@ paths:
         default:
           $ref: '#/components/responses/UnexpectedError'
 
+  /projects/{projectid}/pickersets:
+    get:
+      tags:
+      - project
+      description: Gets pickersets for the project including utf8 character names
+      parameters:
+      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/projectid'
+      responses:
+        200:
+          description: picker data
+          content:
+            application/json:
+              schema:
+                type: array
+                items:
+                  type: object
+                  properties:
+                    name:
+                      type: string
+                    subsets:
+                      type: array
+                      items:
+                        type: object
+                        properties:
+                          name:
+                            type: string
+                          title:
+                            type: string
+                          rows:
+                            type: array
+                            items:
+                              type: array
+                              items:
+                                type: array
+                                items:
+                                  type: string
+                example:
+                  - name: basic-latin
+                    subsets:
+                      - name: A-Z
+                        title: A-Z
+                        rows:
+                        - [[A, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A], [B, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B]]
+                        - [[a, LATIN SMALL LETTER A], [b, LATIN SMALL LETTER B]]
+                      - name: ^
+                        title: Letters with acute, grave, and circumflex
+                        rows:
+                        - [[Á, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE]]
+
+        '400':
+          $ref: '#/components/responses/InvalidValue'
+        '401':
+          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
+        '404':
+          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
+        '429':
+          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimitExceeded'
+        default:
+          $ref: '#/components/responses/UnexpectedError'
+
   /projects/{projectid}/pages/{pagename}:
     put:
       tags:
diff --git a/api/v1.inc b/api/v1.inc
index e379193c1..dc7ed54f0 100644
--- a/api/v1.inc
+++ b/api/v1.inc
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ $router->add_route("GET", "v1/queues/:queueid/projects", "api_v1_queue_projects"
 
 $router->add_route("PUT", "v1/projects/:projectid/checkout", "api_v1_project_checkout");
 $router->add_route("PUT", "v1/projects/:projectid/validatetext", "api_v1_project_validatetext");
+$router->add_route("GET", "v1/projects/:projectid/pickersets", "api_v1_project_pickersets");
 $router->add_route("PUT", "v1/projects/:projectid/pages/:pagename", "api_v1_project_page");
 $router->add_route("GET", "v1/projects/:projectid/pages/:pagename", "api_v1_project_page");
 
diff --git a/api/v1_projects.inc b/api/v1_projects.inc
index ea28b3175..298c3e2a9 100644
--- a/api/v1_projects.inc
+++ b/api/v1_projects.inc
@@ -799,6 +799,40 @@ function api_v1_project_validatetext($method, $data, array $query_params)
     return $text_checker->analyse(receive_project_text_from_request_body('text'), $data[":projectid"]);
 }
 
+function api_v1_project_pickersets($method, $data, $query_params)
+{
+    // expand the character ranges so that each character can have its name
+    $project = $data[":projectid"];
+    return expand_pickersets($project->get_pickersets());
+}
+
+function expand_pickersets($pickersets)
+{
+    $expanded_pickersets = [];
+    foreach ($pickersets as $pickerset) {
+        $expanded_subsets = [];
+        foreach ($pickerset->get_subsets() as $subset_name => $codepoint_rows) {
+            $expanded_rows = [];
+            foreach ($codepoint_rows as $row) {
+                $chars = convert_codepoint_ranges_to_characters($row);
+                $char_titles = [];
+                foreach ($chars as $char) {
+                    if (null == $char) {
+                        $char_title = [null, null];
+                    } else {
+                        $char_title = [$char, utf8_character_name($char)];
+                    }
+                    $char_titles[] = $char_title;
+                }
+                $expanded_rows[] = $char_titles;
+            }
+            $expanded_subsets[] = ["name" => $subset_name, "title" => $pickerset->get_title($subset_name), "rows" => $expanded_rows];
+        }
+        $expanded_pickersets[] = ["name" => $pickerset->name, "subsets" => $expanded_subsets];
+    }
+    return $expanded_pickersets;
+}
+
 function api_v1_project_page(string $method, array $data, array $query_params)
 {
     global $pguser;