Character Viewer in Lion?

When I opened Character Viewer in Snow-Leopard it brought up the Favorites window that was showing when I closed Character Viewer. In Lion the general window always appears and I have to switch to Favorites. I'm unable to discover how to fix this so the Favorites window appears when Character Viewer is opened. Has anyone a suggestion?

I have the same issue. Can't figure a way so that it remembers the last view. Provide Apple feedback.

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    In Lion, the Character Viewer shows many more options for different characters than SL.  Of course, it displays Latin, but, as I scientist I often need to insert Greek characters, but I cannot find Greek characters in the Character Viewer.  I don't otherwise need to select Greek as a language.  Inserting Greek characters from some applications like MS Word still works.
    And ... while I'm here ... what happened to the "insert" button?  -j

    Click the gear icon to edit your list:
    Select Customize List:
    and check "Greek"

  • What happened to glyph option in character viewer in Lion?

    The character viewer has changed and I frequently use this to access glyphs. Am I missing something?

    Apple decided to omit the View = Glyph option in Lion.  I think it is a big mistake.  The place to tell them is
    http://www.apple.com/feedback/
    I don't have popchar, but the stuff I read sure makes it sound like you can select a font and access its glyphs, e.g.
    http://www.macworld.com/article/153197/2010/08/popchar5.html

  • How do I get character viewer to display the names of the radicals in Japanese, as they were until Lion

    In Leopard, Character Viewer displayed the names of the radicals of Japanese characters in Japanese.
    Now I have Lion, the radicals all have English names which are totally different and impossible to search phonetically. I can't find a way to choose the language of the Character Viewer. Do I have to set the whole iMac to use Japanese as its basic language? That would be a pain for everything else.
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    If you put Japanese at the top of the Langauge tab list, but do not logout/login, then only newly opened apps will appear in Japanese.  That way you can get only Character Viewer in Japanese.   Maybe this will also work
    http://www.tj-hd.co.uk/en-gb/languageswitcher/
    Another approach would be to open the Character Viewer app and modify its .lproj folders.
    If you still have a copy of Leopard, you may be able to transplant its Character Viewer app to Lion and use it as an independent app.

  • OS X lion dosn't view fonts in character viewer, this is big problem, OS X lion dosn't view fonts in character viewer, this is big problem

    character viewer cant' view fonts, so my language have 52 letters all this letters are not listed in character viewer, so i cant pick that letters, and i installed fonts have that letters, that is big mistake of os x lion, then i am using another pc windows7  for that.

    What language are you talking about?  You should not need to see fonts in Character Viewer to input any language using the standard Unicode encoding -- input is done via a dedicated keyboard layout.
    PopChar is an app that can input characters from individual fonts.  Also you can transplant Character Viewer for Snow Leopard to Lion and run it as an independent app if you want.

  • Lion Character viewer "insert with font" option missing.

    In Lions character viewer, the "insert with font" option is missing. Anyone who knows how to fix this?

    Jef Wellens wrote:
    Seems to be an Adobe thing. CS5 and character viewer is a no go.
    So you find no way to transfer something from Character Viewer, not double clicking, not drag and drop directly or from Favorites?
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  • Where is character viewer in Word 2008 in Lion?

    where is character viewer in Word 2008 in Lion?
    hal
    [email protected]

    Character Viewer is part of OS X, not Word.  You can activate it by checking its box in system prefs/language & text/input sources and then selecting it from the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen.

  • How to get character viewer to show a specific font

    Previously you could specify a font to see it's characters and glyphs. Now I don't see how to do that. What am I missing? or has that gone the way of font specification in the keyboard viewer too?

    Yes, this feature has been omitted from Lion Character Viewer.  You might try PopChar.  And you can ask Apple to put it back here:
    http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

  • How do you add a dingbat to character viewer in order to select it?

    I understand that being unicode pages cannot use ITC Zaph dingbats from the keyboard that i need to use the special characters. very awkward! but how do i insert a character from zaph dignbat into special characters?
    thank you

    If I open Font Book, and choose named font, I can see a list of symbols, e.g.
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    so I assume that named font includes chars in the category Pictographs, which you can use at ease, I hope.
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    Back in Snow Leopard, we had the possibility to view all characters of a certain font if we selected "View>Glyph" in the character viewer. In Lion, this option seems to be missing. Is there any way to browse all characters of a specific font?
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    No, thanks.  That still doesn't let you show the characters that are availalble for a particular font.  That big assortment of arrows it's showing?  Essentially useless, because they're not available in any font I can find.
    I did discover a cumbersome workaround by using both Font Book and Character Viewer.
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  • The character viewer no longer shows the complete unicode map, as it had in SnowLeopard. How do I get it back?

    Just upgraded to Lion. The character viewer, which previously allowed one to see the entire unicode map for each font, no longer does this. It shows only certain kinds of symbols, not all of them. I am unhappy: I need to be able to access alternative letters and symbols, not just European vowels. Can someone help me?

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    I is still there, but a bit hidden.
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    2. Open the gear menu in the top left corner and select 'customize list...'
    3. Go down to the bottom of the list 'Select categories...' and open 'Code Tables'.
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    It is a bit cramped, but there it is: the old and trusted character viewer with all unicode categories and associated font variations.
    good luck!
    regards,
    Twan

  • Can't insert characters from Character Viewer

    I have used Character Viewer in the past. The way it worked was to highlight the character in Character Viewer and then click the "insert" button. I can bring up Character Viewer and see all the characters, but even after highlighting a character, I cannot insert it into the document.
    Anybody else have the same problem? Any suggestions?
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    jkent4mac wrote:
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    http://www.wix.com/virtualconservatory/home#!menu/vstc1=character-maps
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  • Can't place Character Viewer window on Dock anymore since last system update

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    would be to revert to the system where the feature existed; unless
    the problem was something else in the system causing the failure.
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  • Character Viewer causes major crash on start up

    This is urgent, so any help greatly appreciated.
    I switched on the Character Viewer (CV), can't remember which app I was in at the time.
    It loaded the CV window, but it was completely unresponsive. No characters appeared, and I couldn't close the window (all window buttons dead). It also hovered over every application, in every space.
    After a restart, my Finder is completely unresponsive. In Activity Viewer (before it crashes) I see CV loading, taking about 90% CPU. All I get is the spinning beachball, system wide, and on any application if I try and open it.
    Tried starting in safe mode, same thing happens.
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    Also tried catching the CV in Activity Viewer, and forcing it to quit. It soon reappears however and everything goes down again.
    Nothing is helping....
    I don't have this problem in other user accounts.
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    Hmmm
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    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2415080?start=0&tstart=0
    And it didn't help.
    So I deleted all preference files created since the incident, restarted and now everything's working again.
    I lost a lot of app and finder preferences, including dock, mail and safari, but hey - my machine's working again.
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