Character viewer symbols

At some upgrad or point in time the character symbols stopped inserting into documents with their format or allowing the format to be changed. No matter what font I select, I get Monaco in Word, and it changes following text to Monaco until I change it back. Here are 5 different fonts for the celsuis symbol.
℃℃℃℃℃
They do not change with format.

Go the the gear wheel at the top left and select customize, then check the boxes for the categories you want, including Unicode.

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Character viewer & Currency Symbols

Yosemite 10.10.3
I have been trying to access the shortcuts or whatever for various currencies other than $. I found this on the internet (I know it is not Apple but it is easier to read than anything I have found in these support circles) http://www.maketecheasier.com/type-euro-sign-mac/. I was able to navigate to enter a € symbol but am using many different currencies and need to have access to all.
I have gone to System Preferences > Keyboard and have checked the box for 'Show Keyboard & Characters in Menu Bar'. I navigated to 'Input Sources' but do not see the option to include the Keyboard & Character Viewer in the list area as it shows on this link. I do not see mention of it in any other of the support posts so perhaps this is an old feature.
The following Apple support post How to type accents, emoji, and symbols on your Mac - Apple Support indicates that I should be able to find currencies as a special character. But when I follow those instructions I don't see that I have options for currencies:
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Message was edited by: agremminger
I meant to add a screen shot of the 'missing' character viewer on the input sources tab.

I see the character viewer now on the menu bar with the flag. From here it appears that I can view the currencies too.

Where is character view in 10.9.4?

I used to have in the old MacBook Air (OS 10.7.5) in the banner in the desktop window next to the computer name/date/clock/battery displays. On the new Air (10.9.4) I got nada. I went through system prefs, lightly googled, found nothing on "help," etc. Is it just gone in this version? I need it because I used accents in Mail, Word, Safari, etc.

The item used to be accessed from System Preferences> International> Input Menu.
Should be there -or in similar location- even now... Did you try a search?
OS X Mavericks: Use input sources to type in other languages
support.apple.com › Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Input ...
search for a language or input source, then select one or more input sources. ...
Spell check foreign languages in Pages 09 MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1) ...
OS X Mavericks: Use the Keyboard Viewer - Apple
support.apple.com › From the Input menu (looks like a flag or character) in the menu bar, choose the
input source for the language whose keyboard you want to view. Choose Show ...
OS X Mavericks: Enter special characters and symbols - Apple
support.apple.com ›
Option, Description. Open the Character Viewer: In a document, choose Edit > Special
Characters. Or choose Show Character Viewer from the Input menu ...
OS X Mavericks: Change the language your Mac uses - Apple
support.apple.com › Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Language & Region. ... typed
using the input source that's currently selected in the Input menu (looks like ...
If the Character Viewer isn’t shown in the Input menu, choose Apple menu > System Preferences,
click Keyboard, Keyboard viewer, then select “Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar.”
Hopefully this helps; usually in the installed Help viewer is also a place to look up topics.
Good luck & happy computing!

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.
If I open Character Viewer, and switch to Pictographs, I can see something like this
so I assume that named font includes chars in the category Pictographs, which you can use at ease, I hope.
If you need them frequently, you may create your custom keyboard layout, if you wish this, come back with what you wish.
Screenshots are in Lion, but the procedure is the same, I hope.

Glyph View in Character Viewer?

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?
The reason I need this: I have several special fonts with symbols for scientific work (really specialized fonts, with characters you won't find in the symbols Apple provides). In SnowLeopard, they didn't show up in the character viewer as normal symbols, but in Glyph View one could select the font and then all characters were displayed, so one could easily select the right symbol (my friends using Windows could even assign a keyboard shortcut for each character in their character viewer).

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.
1. Go into Font Book and select the "custom" preview. Put the cursor in that editable preview area.
2. Now go over to Character Viewer and double-click the character or symbol you're interested in. It will be pasted into the "custom" preview of Font Book. However, there's a bug; for some reason after the special character is pasted in, the glyphs that were showing for the font will return to being boxes. You have to select a different font and come back, in order to display the glyphs again.
You can now use the up/down arrow keys to step through all the fonts in Font Book and at least see which fonts have the character(s) you're looking for.

A lot of characters missing from "Character Viewer" .. can I get them?

Most musical symbols show an empty box.
Other categories too...
Could I've erased them? With CleanMyMac maybe?

Character Viewer isn't doing what I want it to do, can somebody help me?
Here's the issue: I have a font installed called Anastasia, which contains musical symbols. I would like to be able to bring up its whole character set on the screen so I can pick which character to insert in my document. It seems to me that this is what Character Viewer is intended to do; however, I can find no way to view the character set for this particular font, Anastasia. The "Muscial Symbols" collection brings up a limited set of symbols, such as notes, but it's an incomplete set and it does not show Anastasia as one of the available font variations. This font is definitely installed and at least one of my installed apps uses it routinely. But it doesn't seem to be accessible through Character Viewer. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!

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?

Hi Sally,
I is still there, but a bit hidden.
1. Open the character viewer
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'.
4. Mark 'Unicode' for inclusion and click 'Done'.
Now open in the character viewer window the freshly added 'Unicode' category.
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

How do i use the character viewer

can anyone tell me the system in using the character viewer, i can drag and drop but surley there must be and easier way than that!
Thanks.

From Mac Help:
Enter special characters and symbols
Use the Character Viewer to enter special characters and symbols, such as mathematical symbols, letters with accent marks, emoticons, arrows and other “dingbats,” into your documents.
You can also use the Character Viewer to enter Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean characters, as well as characters from other languages.
Enter special characters or symbols from the Character Viewer
Open a document, and place the insertion point where you want the special character or symbol to appear.
Choose Edit > Special Characters to open the Character Viewer, or choose Show Character Viewer from the Input menu in the menu bar (looks like a flag or character).If you don’t see Show Character Viewer in the Input menu, follow the steps in this topic to show the Character Viewer in the menu bar.
Select a category from the list on the left, and then select the character you want to use.Use the Recently Used or Favorites sections in the Character Viewer to quickly enter frequently used characters or symbols.
Add a character or symbol to the Favorites section in the Character Viewer
Choose Edit > Special Characters to open the Character Viewer, or choose Show Character Viewer from the Input menu in the menu bar (looks like a flag or character).If you don’t see Show Character Viewer in the Input menu, follow the steps in this topic to show the Character Viewer in the menu bar.
Select a category from the list on the left, and then drag the character you want to the Favorites section.
Customize the Character Viewer
If you don’t see the character or symbol that you want to use, try customizing the Character Viewer.
Choose Customize List from the Action pop-up menu (looks like a gear) in the top-left corner of the Character Viewer.
Select the categories that you want to appear in the Character Viewer, and then click Done.
Show the Character Viewer in the menu bar
If the character doesn’t appear in your document, you may be using an app that doesn’t support that character. Try using a different character or inserting the character in a different app.
See the special characters or symbols you can enter using keyboard shortcuts
You can use the Keyboard Viewer to help you learn which keyboard shortcuts to use to enter special characters or symbols.
Turn on the Keyboard Viewer
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Language & Text, and then click Input Sources
Select the Keyboard & Character Viewer checkbox.
Make sure the checkbox next to each input source you want to use is selected and that “Show Input menu in menu bar” is selected.
See the special characters or symbols you can enter
Choose Show Keyboard Viewer from the Input menu in the menu bar (looks like a flag or character).
Press any modifier key or combination of modifier keys to see the different special characters or symbols you can type.For example, hold down the Option key or the Option and Shift keys.
To place a special character or symbol that you see in the Keyboard Viewer in your document, press the modifier key or keys you pressed in step 2 and press the key on your keyboard that is in the same place as the special character or symbol you see in the Keyboard Viewer.
If you don’t see the special character or symbol you want to use, enter the special characte

Character Viewer

Character Viewer displays thousands of glyphs or images of characters, but it does not identify the Font and/or Keystroke needed to type the character. Double clicking does insert the character. Selecting the character then identifies the Font name, but choosing that Font name, no combination of keystrokes reproduces the character. Is there a way to identify the Font/Keystrokes of these characters in Character Viewer or Keyboard Viewer?
For example: Character:Pictographs displays a Caduceus. Double clicking it inserts the Caduceus image in an Excel cell. Selecting that image in Excel identifies the Font as Menlo Bold. However, using Menlo Bold as a Font there seems no Keystroke that will type that image. In Font Book examining Menlo Bold reveals a huge number of letters/symbols/images available, but no information about how to type them. Indeed, there are so many images there can't possibly be enough keystroke combinations to cover them all. I'm confused.
(Note to Admin. If this query is in wrong forum please move it)

So thanks, that sort of helps. However, I quickly learned that Office does not respond to the System Preference settings (I set opt-c to type a caduceus), while Mail does. I guess Apple software does and others don't? Word and Excel do respond to Character Viewer double click insertions. Does opt-c ç becomes caduceus? ç, NO, guess not. But Character Viewer produces ⚕. So Safari in this message does not respond to System Preferences either. Filemaker doesn't either. Just where does System Preferences:Language & Text:Text:symbol/text substitution work? Is there some other step that makes it work in Office, Filemaker, et. al.? I sort of feel like 1984 all over again. When I first got my MacPlus fonts were truly fascinating, and what the Mac allowed me to do with fonts seemed awesome (until Multifinder came along it was the neatest thing). I bought programs that let you draw your own fonts-I had Suitcases full of them and even memorized ASCI. Now all I really want is a single keystroke that will type a caduceus in MS Word. Please don't advise me to switch to AppleWorks or Pages. Clearly Character Viewer sends some code (?ASCI) to Word that inserts a caduceus. Is there a way I can do that without having to stop typing and start clicking after opening Character Viewer? I know I can save the caduceus in Clipboard and use Com-v for caduceus, but I use the Clipboard for other stuff too often. Clipboard? Does that date me too? Frankly, I miss it.

Missing Unicode font in Character Viewer

The OS 10.6 Character Viewer has a View menu from which one can select the Glyph mode then select a font from the Font menu. How can I get Lion's CV to display my Unicode font and allow me to insert its characters into documents?

jkent4mac wrote:
The CSTwo and CSThree fonts are from the ChordSymbol2 family. They were developed by John Clelvenger and are sold through The Virtual Conservatory (www.virtualconservatory.com).
Thanks for that info! I found a character map at
http://www.wix.com/virtualconservatory/home#!menu/vstc1=character-maps
It's a bit odd they would call these "unicode" fonts, since they replace almost all the required unicode glyphs with specialized music symbols. Normally they would be called "non-unicode" unless they put all that into the Private Use Area.
Glad you were able to solve your problem!

Character Viewer - Emoji not working

I'd like to add a Smiley Face Emoticon to my Pages document. So far I've clicked on Character Viewer and found Smiley's under Emoji, but when I double click a Smiley the cursor advances forward, but no Smiley Face in my document. What am I missing? I've also found that some of the other symbols are not appearing like the Smiley Faces.

wcruse wrote:
So I opened my character viewer, went over to Emoji, then clicked on People, then went through each smiley till I found the black/white ones (4th Smiley, top row). And I found this ☺
When I do this, I find black/white ones starting with the very first smiley in the top row, so I suspect there is something not working right on your system.

Where is the Character Viewer?

What happen to the Character Pallette (aka: Character Viewer). ??
I no longer see anything in System> Keyboard....
It allowed using foreign language accents...had math symbols...other cool stuff, even some emitocons (sp?) etc.
Anybody know how to find it in Mavericks?

Character Viewer is still there in OS X Mavericks. To access to it, open System Preferences > Keyboard, and tick "Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar".
Then, press the viewer button on the menu bar (at the top right part of the display) and open Character Viewer.
You can also open it from any application, by going to Edit menu (on the menu bar) > Special Characters

Character viewer- Characters

I'm not sure if this is the place to ask, but for lack of another one, here goes.
I constantly use the ℃ symbol in my writings, emails, etc. But every one I select turns into Lucida 12, and I do most writing in Times. The Lucida is taller, changing my line spacing and looking bad. I can then manually change the size (need to drop it to 10 to fit the line height).
The Character viewer has dozens of fonts identified, but all insert as Lucida 12. What am I missing?

except perhaps for printing
Yup. Clients have tons of money invested in older fonts. No chance they're going to just toss them. We see Type 1 fonts all the time.
Looking at the glyph catalogs of the versions of those two fonts that come with OS X, I don't see this character.
You are right. I had to look again after your comment. Turns out when TextEdit switches, it's just going back to the Celsius glyph in Lucida Grande anytime you click on a Unicode font which doesn't actually contain that glyph. So all three fonts I mentioned do not contain that glyph. Mostly odd that it switches whenever I click on a Type 1 Courier font, which is certainly not Unicode.

Character Viewer is Blank

I have been using Character Viewer for sometime. When I opened it today there were no characters displayed. It seems as if the viewer is not seeing my fonts. All the font setting seem to be normal without problem.

Yeah I'm having the same problem. I've been using symbols for my math documents for quite some time and now I can't view any of them.

Having trouble finding Character viewer

I am having trouble finding the Character Viewer. I've looked in the Launchpad and also in Finder under Applications. If I accidentally sent it to the Trash and emptied it can I reinstall?
OS X 10.8.5

Actually I'm not looking for the Font Book , I'm looking for the Character Viewer. FontBook I can find and it does not appear to give me what I want. I was already using the Character Viewer quite a bit for a while, using it to find the pi sign, upside down exclamation points, fractions, foreign currency symbols and stuff like that.
I suspect I turfed the app without realizing what I was doing at the time. This is my first Mac and I am still acclimatizing to it. Like I said, it can't be found in Finder under Applications so I'm thinking it must be missing.

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