Show Character Viewer - Yosemite 10.10.2

Yosemite 10.10.2
Top Menu Bar has an icon to show character viewer and to show keyboard viewer. When I select "show character viewer", there are an amazing collection of characters. On my menu bar, it is to the left of the day/date/time. I didn't put it there, it just showed up as a small square with characters inside.
My question is, how do I copy it here... ... oh... never mind, I just click on it and dragged it here like this ➼ .
Very nice feature of Yosemite.

Yep.
Just another new item in Yosemite. What is nice is the ability to add things from the character view.
I wonder if mouse text is supported here?
example: Option-1 = ¡
¡™£¢∞§¶•ªº–≠
åß∂ƒ˙∆˚¬…æΩ≈√∫˜µ≤µ≤≥÷
I miss being able to use the mousetext ears! :¬)
And type from the keyboard view.

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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
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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 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 opens and closes itself repeatedly

I am trying to access special characters via the character viewer. When I click show character viewer, the viewer pops up. It pops up with Lucida as the default font. Switches itself to an A font (Abadi in my case) and closes. I click onto the desktop, the character viewer reappears, repeats the above behavior. Rinse and repeat in a loop.
The behavior only stops when I click "Hide Character Viewer"
How do I get my character picker back to normal?

That partially worked. After trashing the .plist (I trashed 2 charpalette .plists...one with an IM in its name...deleting this one seemed to have made the behavior stop, not the charpaletteserver one), the thing will pop open in Roman view and it works as expected. If I switch the view to Glyph, it repeats the above behavior.
Incidentally, the palette is not remembering the view I had when I closed it as it behaved pre-Snow Leopard.

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 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

Character viewer shows nothing

I only use the character viewer very occasionally but it's handy when I need it to type an unusual character for me.
But when I tried it today, looking for an accented e, it was just white space. All the components were there, but no characters !
What has gone wrong? Here's a screen shot.

My only suggestion is to repair permissions, restart, and see if it restores things. If not, reinstall the 10.6.8 v 1.1 COMBO update. If still no go, reinstall from the install disc and apply software updates. One other option might be to create a new admin user account, log into it, and see if the problem persists. If not, then reinstalling won't work because it's user account specific.

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.

How to get Character Viewer to stay visible (esp. in Word for Mac)?

I'm asking this on behalf of a friend who has a 2013 13-inch (non-retina) MackBook Pro and uses it with an Apple Cinema Display. Since the upgrade to Mavericks the behaviour of the Character Viewer has changed, where it no longer 'sticks' (stays both active and on top) as a visible window when you switch applications: now it needs to be called up from within each application, and will be visible when working with that app.
He needs the Character Viewer open all the time and this change is inconvenient (he draws special characters from it constantly). But the main problem is that he mostly works in MS Word for Mac and as far as I can tell Microsoft have not updated Word to respect the behaviour Mavericks intends for Character Viewer: to stay visible while working. Instead, the Character Viewer window randomly closes. So, while hoping for an update from MS (but not holding breath since they provide their own inferior version of a glyph viewer in Word)) I have two questions:
1. Can anyone suggest a way, perhaps using Applescript or Automator (which I don't know how to use), to make the Character Viewer always stay open and visible while using any application? This would be the preferable solution, in effect restoring the behaviour seen before Mavericks.
Or
2. Can someone give us some guidance on how to make a custom keyboard shortcut in Word for Mac that we could assign to bring up the (OSX) Character Viewer, since the usual system shortcut for that (control-command-space) is not respected in Word. Or alternatively, an Applescript or Automator solution for this that would be available from within Word?
Thanks!

Did you try:
->System Preferences->Keyboard and check [ ] Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar
It closes when I switch desktops with spaces or open another App, but it displays when I go back to the Word window

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.

How do I insert Greek characters from the character viewer in Lion?

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"

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!

Character viewer window has no content

Character viewer is on top menu, the window comes up, with Math, Arrows, etc., but nothing shows up when I select any of the categories in left hand window.
Is there a preference file I can delete?
Thanks.

Is there a preference file I can delete?
Yes, the .plist with CharacterPalette in its name in Home/Library/Preferences

Character viewer is user rude

Character viewer cannot be minimized which means every time I want to use it I have to open it from the menu bar. Is the new version of OSX going to rectify this?

PBFZ wrote:
every time I want to use it I have to open it from the menu bar.
No you don't, just use the keyboard shortcut command - control - space.
I think you can be sure that Yosemite will not change the way Character Viewer works.

"Font Variation" in character viewer

Well, now that I've made the ghastly mistake of "upgrading" to 10.9....
Is there any way to make the "Font Variation" aspect of Character Viewer behave the way it did in 10.6? I want to see all the font names all the time, each under its glyph, not just the font of a single glyph when I click on it. How do I know which fonts contain a particular character?

Tom Gewecke wrote:
I think the app Ultra Character Map can do what you want.
Most apps will automatically use a font which has the character, even if you have selected one that does not.
Yup. I can remember when users of That Other Platform had to have it explained to them that Font Substitution is good and useful and desirable. That was only about 10 years ago. For that matter, I can also remember when "Font Substitution" meant that your printer replaced New York with Times. I definitely don't miss that stage! But there are still times I'd like to know which fonts actually contain a given character.
I'll have to assume that all the other useful features are also gone:
show character selected in application
paste into application (as an alternative to using the Unicode Hex Input keyboard layout, which always smacks of Windows circa 2002)
built-in link to FontBook application
list option to show all fonts containing a particular glyph
Sigh.
Ultra Character Map may indeed be what I want. $9.99. Thanks, Apple! It riles me that someone decided all these features are not only unnecessary but actively harmful, requiring their removal from OS > 10.6. There's no way to downgrade your operating system, is there?

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