Comments on: Unicode Hex Input on OS X Leopard

By: Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:34:49 +0000

Dangit. I think you need the number pad to make this work. Another workaround: TextExpander shortcut.

By: lumpynose

lumpynose — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:22:26 +0000

You can always tell who the Mac users are; they’re the ones helpfully explaining some workaround they’ve discovered.

By: Eric Burke

Eric Burke — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:25:04 +0000

I’m now testing on a Vista machine:
- the symbol appears in the Twitter web interface
- the symbol does *not* work in Twhirl
- I cannot copy/paste the symbol into any Windows app, like Word…just shows a box
- I can’t find the symbol in the Character Map

Clearly the symbol is available in some fonts, because it works in the web browser. But overall this is a PITA for Windows users, so I’ll probably avoid it and stick with RT in Twitter.

By: Jokin

Jokin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:21:10 +0000

And in spite of also using OS X, my browser shows it as an interrogation simbol (plain “?”) so also character codification each one uses at his computer is important.
Not as nice, but RT works better than recycling symbol.

By: bbum

bbum — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:18:17 +0000

Unicode symbols typically have a fairly descriptive name.

Thus, the search field will often yield exactly the results you need.

Example, if you had searched for «recyc», you would have quickly found all recycling characters.

I sometimes type in parts of word and see what a roll of the ⚅⚄⚂ turns up.