Hi all.
Tips on using the character viewer? I don't think this matters, but my fn key doesn't work as the globe key, non-Apple keyboard, so I have text input in the status menu. So I pick that and then pick "show emoji and symbols". Here is where the fun begins.
1. How do I get to characters, i.e. accented letters, runes, hieroglyphics, and the like?
2. More importantly, what do I do when I get there?
Let me describe my experience with emoji, since I assume it will work the same way. I pick an emoji, a sun let's say, or if I pick a person I get a menu for skin tone, usually, and pick one of those. Then instead of anything useful, I get a system dialogue with empty content. I can't just pick it and hit cmd-c to copy, because they're all buttons.
I assume emoji and characters and all of the symbols work the same way, you'd copy and then paste them into your text file or email or message or whatever. How do you do that? Also, how do you favorite one of them? If there's anything else you can do in character viewer, I'd love to know all about it.
This is under the latest OS, 26.5.2, in case that matters.
Oh OK, if I pick more categories then "large window", that gives me more characters, still haven't found things like runes or hieroglyphics yet, I assume they're in there because all of the Unicode stuff should be and I know somebody who's on a Mac that's used runes in the past.
Also if I pick a character and hit enter, it seems to put it in the edit field. Still don't know how to favorite or such though. So I'd still love to know all of the things you can do in there. Thanks everybody for any help!
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Another question.
Yep, I'm bumping my super old thread, because I've become interested again. So if you open something that definitely takes emoji, say Messages, I've noticed something interesting, and annoying. It adds some emjoi, but not others. Steps to reproduce:
1. I'm hitting ctrl-cmd-space to bring up the character viewer, because I have no globe key.
2. Pick emoji in characters.
3. Pick a category of characters, say animals and nature.
4. Interact, VO-arrow to an animal or whatever, and hit enter. It pastes it into the message.
Now do the same thing, but first, pick people. Pick a person, and add it to your favorites. Then pick favorites.
1. Get to the thing you added.
2. If you interact with it and hit VO-space, you get a little menu like (person emoji you picked), (person emoji you picked with light skin tone), and so on.
If you Vo-arrow to one of these and hit enter, it doesn't seem to add the emoji.
So yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how in the world to use special characters/emoji on the Mac keyboard, except I don't have an Apple keyboard, obviously. Not that this should make much of a difference, I'm just using ctrl-cmd-space or the input menu in the status menus to enter the character viewer instead of globe/fn-E, everything else should be the same.
If I ever solve this I guess I'll move on to iOS and a Bluetooth keyboard next, the excitement!
Re: Another question.
After selecting an emoji with a skin tone, press Enter, then press Enter again, and the emoji will be inserted.
Thanks!
Let' see if it works. 🐒 OK, hitting enter doesn't do anything, I got that one by hitting VO-space on the monkey emoji. So let's try a person. Nope. People still ain't showing up. Weird!