As a new school year dawns, Sharon Zardetto contributes Keyboard Viewer 101 - how to turn on and use one of Apple's character discovery and entry tools. It's an excerpt from her "Take Control of Fonts ...

OS X offers many, many more characters than you can type on your keyboard, from emoji to handy typographic symbols. We explain how you can figure out what they are and enter them in messages and ...

Easily Type accented letters like é, à, ö, and symbols like ©, ?, € using shortcut keys. Type any Unicode character. The font should support it. You can search for Unicode characters by name ...

How to easily write text backwards (right to left) in a web page or in a forum without having to think about the order of the letters? There is a relatively surprising solution, which involves the use ...

To type the special characters, go back to the Input menu in the menu bar and select "Unicode Hex Input." Press and hold the Option key on your keyboard, and then type the hexadecimal code.

The range of characters that can be represented by Unicode is truly bewildering. If there’s a symbol that was ever used to represent a sound or a concept anywhere in the world, chances are ...