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Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

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Adding Unicode decorators to text in Pages

You can show the character viewer by selecting Special Characters from the Edit menu. It doesn't support copying characters, but you can add characters by dragging them to text views.
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How do I make keyboard viewer to automatically show up only when I'm holding the option key?

You could use a private.xml like this with KeyRemap4MacBook: <root> <vkopenurldef> <name>KeyCode::VK_OPEN_URL_KEYBOARDVIEWER</name> <url>file:///System/Library/Input%20Methods/KeyboardViewe …
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Convert single unicode character to png image

Using ImageMagick: convert -pointsize 64 -font /System/Library/Fonts/Apple\ Symbols.ttf label:⦿ output.png convert -background transparent -fill 'hsb(0%,0%,0%)' -font /System/Library/Fonts/Apple\ Sy …
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Where can I find the unicode symbols for Mac functional keys? (Command, Shift, etc.)

Events.h defines constants for the menu glyphs, but not the code points used to represent them. There are several unofficial lists like Keyboard icons & terminology - Ask Different Meta or this one po …
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UTF8 filenames and shell utilities

See Text Encodings in VFS: Important: The terms used in this Q&A, precomposed and decomposed, roughly correspond to Unicode Normal Forms C and D, respectively. …
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Is it possible to use the character map as a standalone app?

sudo defaults write Contents/Info LSUIElement -bool false would make it have a menu bar and show up in Dock. However as of 10.7.4 there seems to be no way to open the main window after opening the app …
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Use option-arrows with Unicode Hex Input

Downlolad Ukelele and copy System Keyboards/Unicode/Unicode Hex Input.keylayout from the disk image to /Library/Keyboard Layouts/. …
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How do I look up the Unicode # for a given character on Lion?

The code points should be shown in the right sidebar if you've enabled the Unicode category from the Customize List… sheet. …
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Does anyone know how to disable unicode text input in text fields?

Some applications and text views just don't support DefaultKeyBinding.dict. If you create a new keylayout with Ukelele, you can for example make ⌥A insert nothing instead of å. Or you can reassign ke …
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How to obtain glyphs from the "Apple Symbols" font in Lion?

Snow Leopard's CharacterPalette.app still works on 10.7: Those "iOS symbols" shown in the screenshot above are glyph variants that are specific to Apple Symbols. For example the turned arrow icon i …
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