HOW TO USE MACOS’S CHARACTER VIEWER TO TYPE EMOJI AND OTHER SYMBOLS
Unicode incorporates nearly 150,000 symbols, and our keyboards let us directly enter no more than several dozen—even with the addition of Shift and Option keys. Many of the remaining characters can be found in Character Viewer, a part of macOS that’s hidden by default.
This viewer lets you find symbols, drag them or double-click them to insert symbols into text, and mark them as favorites for later access.
You can bring up the Character Viewer (also called Emoji & Symbols) through several methods:
> On a keyboard with a globe icon, you can press that key to bring up the viewer. (See the Keyboard preference pane’s Keyboard tab if that doesn’t work—an option has to be checked for the globe icon key to appear.)
> Press Command-Control-Space.
> In the Keyboard preference pane’s Input Sources tab, check “Show Input menu in menu bar.” Emoji & Symbols is one choice.
When it first appears, the viewer might be in an abbreviated form that emphasizes emojis and shows links along the bottom. If so, click the palette icon in the upper-right corner to expand it into the larger
