...
This keyboard layout is pre-installed, but it is not active by default and therefore you won’t see it, so you have to ‘activate’ it (only once).
Activate Unicode Hex Input in macOS:
| Go to System Preferences… and click Keyboard to select your keyboard options |
...
| In your menu bar, near the right, you now see Note also that you now have access to two new items: |
Use Unicode Hex Input in macOS:
1) Select Unicode Hex Input in the keyboard menu in the menu bar. It can be used in any application that accepts text.
2) Once selected, you can just type Latin characters as usual. Unicode Hex Input provides basic Latin text input as you would expect. The interesting part is inputting four-digit hexadecimal Unicode scalar values.
To do this, keep the Option key depressed (sometimes called the Alt key on some hardware keyboards), and type the four hexadecimal digits of the Unicode character you wish to insert. When it appears you can let go of the Option key.
3) Unicode Hex Input is limited to inputting four-digit Unicode hex codes. But there is another way to access higher-value Unicode hex codes.
