Mac 911 How to find and insert special characters in macOS Apple supports the full range of Unicode, but it can be hard to find the symbol you need.

The difference has to be stored, so the characters have to be encoded somehow. Is there a unicode compatible way to encoding those that aren't in unicode?

You can add special characters on a PC or Mac computer by using keyboard shortcuts or accessing a pop-up window.

Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird.

When it comes to managing the vast array of unicode characters in modern font sets, Apple's character viewer tool can be exceptionally useful.