The Mac used to show the characters of whatever font you were currently typing in when you pulled up the Keyboard Viewer from the menu bar. This was super useful when working with various symbol fonts ...

Character entry? Isn’t that what we used to call “typing”? Yes, but how can you type characters that aren’t printed on your keyboard, or aren’t available at all through any key combination? There is ...

In a recent Mac 911, I answered Lynn Garwood’s question about character selection when she upgraded from Mavericks to El Capitan: In the old system, I could click on the [input palette] icon in the ...

Few pieces of Mac software can claim the history of PopChar, a utility that makes it a click and a hover to see the appearance of individual characters in fonts installed on your Mac. Released in 1987 ...

Character codes include the letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols that are commonly found on a keyboard. They are usually associated with symbols or national alphabets. These codes enable ...

Discover how to effortlessly use the Windows 11 Character Map Tool to insert special characters, emojis, and symbols into ...