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Keyboard layout for math
I usually need to write math with LaTeX, and after seeing this question: Entering unicode math symbols. I came here with some small questions.
I find that not perfectly comfortable, and I was ...
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Use option-arrows with Unicode Hex Input
I recently switched to the Unicode Hex Input to make typing technical symbols easier. It seems, though, that the way it uses the option key to detect unicode input overrules the ⌥+arrow method of ...
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How to get Apple Mail to display Unicode characters reliably for different people
I'm sending an email newsletter that contains Unicode characters - curly quotes, em dashes, and so on. When I send the newsletter to myself (from our custom content management system, to my account at ...
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Does anyone know how to disable unicode text input in text fields?
I absolutely love the Cocoa text engine. A few modifications to a little xml file - ~/Library/DefaultKeyBinding.dict - and you can get just about any key sequence to work in any standard Cocoa text ...
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Unicode HOT BEVERAGE (U+2615) in Google Chrome
In the screenshot below, I am looking at an email with a unicode HOT BEVERAGE (U+2615) character. The character is displayed correctly in the OSX dialog and in the developer tools, but not in the web ...
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Where can I find an explained list of emoji (emoticons) used in iOS?
Where can I find an explained list of emoji (emoticons) used in iOS for use on Mac OS X?
Some of them are not quite clear and I would like to see their base meaning (I know that you are free to use ...
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What is the Mac keyboard key with a symbol ⌅ of an up arrow pointing into a horizontal line?
On a Mac, symbols are often used for keys rather than names. In Adobe Indesign for Mac, the keyboard shortcuts for inserting various break characters are described using what looks like an up arrow / ...
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Is there a dashboard widget that has extended Unicode characters?
I've been looking for a decent Unicode widget that allows access to some of the weirder characters like ✓ and ✗.
Does such a beast exist? I've tried a few and all of them seem kind of ...
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osx - opening a unicode file in text edit
I'd like to process a unicode text file using TextEdit. When I open the file using TextEdit or TextWrangler instead of seeing Nattvardsgästerna I see this Nattvardsg‰sterna (which is incorrect). When ...
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How does the OS X font fallback system work?
I'm trying to design a font containing symbols for internal use in our organisation.
I've created a font using this tutorial, and I've assigned a symbol to the unicode position 0xF600. This lies ...
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Add TL Symbol to Character Viewer (Unicode 20BA) [TL simgesi]
I want to add the new 2012 Turkish Lira currency symbol, U+20BA, to Character Viewer as shown at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira_sign
What can I do?
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Is it possible to add a symbol to the character palette?
I guess everybody here knows about the character palette of Mac OS X.
Is it possible to create a new symbol, using an image or a vectorial shape made in Illustrator, and add it to the character ...
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Microsoft Office 2011 OS X and unicode
I have problems with my Word files when I try to open them on Windows machines. So, I checked the file and got that Word file has Unicode symbols. How to fix it? Thank you.
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Adding Unicode decorators to text in Pages
Is it possible to add a copied (via Cmd+C), for example, vector arrow to a letter in Pages? If so, how?
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How to obtain glyphs from the “Apple Symbols” font in Lion?
I'd like to make use of the special iOS symbols found in Apple Symbols font, e.g. the "Reload" and "Action" glyphs. In Snow Leopard, I could obtain and insert them via the "special characters" pane ...
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Where can I find the unicode symbols for Mac functional keys? (Command, Shift, etc.)
Is there a list of key-symbols that I could reference?
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TextEdit removes Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) from Unicode/UTF files. How to fix?
I'm working with UTF-8 files, but TextEdit seems to not fully support the BOM. When a BOM is present, it DOES render unicode characters correctly. However, upon saving the file, the BOM is removed, so ...
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How do I look up the Unicode # for a given character on Lion?
How do you find the Unicode number representation for a given character in Lion?
On Mac OS X 10.6 when hovering the mouse cursor over for example the ⌘ symbol in the "Character Viewer" a tool ...
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Copying Devanagari on OS X
I am working with several files in various formats (PDF, HTML, DOCX) that contain Devanagari (Indian) script.
When I try to copy text using either CMD+C or the right-click menu, it is transformed ...
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How can I type or input Unicode characters using a code point on the iPhone?
I'm aware of the ability to use accented characters by holding down a key until they appear (ie. á ü etc.); however, I'm curious as to how, if possible, one might enter a code point in hexadecimal ...
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How do I use the “right-to-left override” in Safari for Mac?
I'd like to use the "right-to-left override" (unicode character 202E) in Safari. How do I make it work?
