Character entry? Isn’t that what we used to call “typing”? Yes, but how can you type characters that aren’t printed on your keyboard, or aren’t available at all through any key combination? There is ...

The keyboard viewer in OS X has been serving as a useful tool for a long time, allowing users to view keyboard characters with a few clicks of their mouse. Though Apple continues to include the ...

If you do much typing at all—especially if you dabble in graphic design or publishing—you’ll eventually need hidden typographic characters such as ®, ©, ™, ° and maybe even € and £. Back in 1984, the ...

The Keyboard preference pane in System Preferences is the most obvious place to start and probably the one that most readers already know about, but here’s a recap. The most obvious thing expert ...

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Microsoft Word, like all text-based programs, uses a numeric character code called ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) for each alphabetic, numeric, and special character on ...

Your Windows mobile device doesn't have a numeric keypad, so how do you type characters like em dashes or bullets without having to open Word or Character Map? I'd been using Macs exclusively since ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starting in November 2020, popular keyboard apps Facemoji Keyboard and Simeji will offer downloadable Disney character keyboard skins for a limited time period of about ...

The Emoji++ keyboard bills itself at the fastest way to type emoji on iOS. It achieves that by allowing you to scroll through your emoji list as a single collection rather than relying on swiping ...

This is actually my favorite tip ever, and it’s usually the one I share with any new iOS owners I come across. When you’re tapping away on the keyboard on your iPhone, there are bound to be times when ...

Smartphones have interchangeable keyboard layouts and can change between different looks with a touch, and this may be something that Apple aims to achieve in its new patent for the Mac. One of the ...

Everyone loves emojis these days, right? The wide range of characters has become our de-facto form of communicating on our smartphones. But what about when we sit down at our desks or laptops and use ...