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You may have to insert a character, and you have no idea how to do that by just typing it using the keyboard. Supposing you saw the character ă mentioned in the ‘Brill Typeface Character List’, which shows the associated hex code 0103 next to it, how do you use that code?
MS Word on MS Windows
MS Word (Windows version only, not the macOS version) has a keyboard command to convert any Unicode hexadecimal scalar value to the associated character.
| With the insertion point positioned at the end of the hexadecimal number, press Alt X | The code is converted to the character. This works as a toggle: press Alt X again and the code reappears |
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This ‘Alt X trick’ in MS Word also works with hex numbers consisting of five or more digits.
Any macOS text application
macOS has a system-wide Unicode Hex Input mechanism, which therefore works not just in MS Word but in any application that accepts text.
