Answer: The best way to see the options for special characters in Mac OS X is to use the Keyboard Viewer. Go to System Preferences-Keyboard and select the Keyboard tab, then check the box that says 'Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar'. Now in your menu bar you can select the Keyboard Viewer. Jul 20, 2011 Add emoticons to your mails, tweets, messages to express yourself in new and creative ways! Use the emoji images system wide in all applications you've installed! Compatible with all Macs with OS X 10.8 and up. Note: for OS X to OS X or OS X to iOS messaging only, this app may fail to work with mail, messages sent to non OS X / iOS devices.
One application that has been updated in Mac OS X Lion is the venerable Terminal.app which finally supports 256 colors. While playing around with Emoji characters, I realised they were quite useful to mark different terminals. I typically have multiple windows open with local and remote shells, along with a python interpreter. Previously I used the background colour of the terminal to distinguish the various contexts, but now I also add an relevant Emoji in the title.
To add the character to a Terminal window's title, just go into Terminal » Preferences, select the Settings Icon and the Window tab. In the Title item, you can enter the emoticon in the title text by going to Edit » Special Characters and select the Emoji set. Double-click the character you want to insert.
I posted some examples and an image on my blog.
[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. This did make me smile.]
Type emoji and other symbols
- Click the place in your document or message where you want the character to appear.
- Press Control–Command–Space bar. The Character Viewer pop-up window appears:
- Use the search field at the top of the window, click a category at the bottom of the window, or click in the upper-right corner to expand the window and reveal more characters.
- When you find the character that you want, click or double-click it to insert it in to your text.
In the Messages and Mail apps, you can also see the Character Viewer popup when you click .
Type accented characters
Press and hold a key until its alternate characters appear, then click or type the number under the character that you want to use.
If no additional characters are available for the key that you're holding, the accent menu doesn't appear.
If you decide that you don't want to type an accented character after holding a key, press the Esc (escape) key.
Repeat a character
Some keys repeat when you press and hold them, depending on where you type them. Press and hold the Space bar or symbol keys (like hyphen or equals) to make these characters repeat in most apps. In apps where accented characters aren't used (like Calculator, Grapher, or Terminal), letter and number keys also repeat when you press and hold them.
If a character isn't repeating, check your Key Repeat settings:
- Choose Apple () menu > System Preferences.
- Click Keyboard.
- Make sure that the Key Repeat slider isn't set to Off.
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- Select the character that you want to copy.
- Press Command-C to copy the character to the clipboard.
- Hold Command-V to paste the character repeatedly.