Timeline for OS X: Unicode Input
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| Sep 30, 2022 at 7:02 | answer | added | WGroleau | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 8, 2022 at 21:20 | answer | added | Manngo | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 8, 2022 at 13:54 | answer | added | lbutlr | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 22:20 | answer | added | Jon Pellant | timeline score: 12 | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/askdifferent/status/1064488633640632320 | ||
| Mar 7, 2016 at 15:28 | comment | added | Tom Gewecke | If the number of chinese and other characters you need which cannot be made via US or US Extended is not too large, you could make keyboard shortcuts for them in system prefs/keyboard/text (or by using various third party apps which do the same kind of thing). Or use the Unicode hex layout and make keyboard shortcuts for the items you find entering hex codes to be too tedious for. | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 4:49 | comment | added | WGroleau | I would make a copy of the Unicode Hex Input and add states to let me easily do other things I need. Or just learn more hex codes. | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 1:53 | comment | added | Manngo |
When typing an email or entering on a web form, “smart quote” is not always an option. When writing code, you need "straight quotes" for code, but I use “smart quotes” for text. In any case, other European accented characters are easily entered using the Option key. However the Chinese character cha (茶, \8336) definitely needs Unicode input. On Windows the only way to enter smart quotes is via unicode input. The Mac is normally smarter than that …
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| Mar 6, 2016 at 13:18 | comment | added | Tom Gewecke | What are examples of things you are using codes for? It may be they are part of the US (ABC) Extended layout. | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 13:16 | comment | added | Tom Gewecke | Normally one would not use the keyboard to make a typographical apostrophe -- instead one would use an app or OS preference setting to generate "smart quotes" etc. | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 11:03 | history | edited | klanomath | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 6, 2016 at 6:36 | history | asked | Manngo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |