Apr 03, 2017 This causes the macOS Characters window to appear, which not only displays all of your Mac’s emojis, but also other special symbols and characters such as math symbols, international currency symbols, and technical symbols. You can also use the Search box in the upper-right section of the window to search for specific emojis and characters. Mar 08, 2017 Hopefully, a future release Windows 10 adds a more efficient way to insert emoticons; maybe an emoticon tab from the Action Center. For now, you will need to enable the on-screen keyboard. Where can I find an explained list of emoji (emoticons) used in iOS? Convert single unicode character to png image. Where are the sample books stored in the iBooks for Mac OS X? Where is the Autocorrect dictionary file for Outlook 2015 stored in OS X Yosemite? How can I use Blackberry emojis on my non-jailbroken iOS device? Oct 17, 2005 Support Communities / Mac OS & System Software / Mac OS X v10.3 and earlier. Question: Q: Mac Mail Smilies and Emoticons. I just want to put some smilies in my emails, but I can't find any way to do it using the MAC Mail program. I can use them with iChat, I can use them with Yahoo, I can use them on any PC in the universe.
Now that Mac OS X supports Emoji, they can be added to the title of a terminal window to help distinguish shell windows.
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.]
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.
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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.
Windows Mail Emoticons
If a key isn't designed to repeat in the app you’re using, follow these steps:
- 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.