Version 1.0, 20 August 2021

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1.0, 20 August 2021

What are ‘hexadecimal’ codes?

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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

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Go to System Preferences… and click Keyboard to select your keyboard options

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In your menu bar, near the right, you now see that you have two active keyboard layouts: one is your primary keyboard layout (in this case ‘ABC’, a Latin-script keyboard associated with the English language), and the other is Unicode Hex Input, which you can now select and use. Note also that you now have access to two new items: ‘Show Emoji & Symbols’, a bit of a misnomer since it in fact gives you access to all of Unicode; and ‘Show Keyboard Viewer’, which is self-explanatory.

Use Unicode Hex Input in macOS

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1) Select Unicode Hex Input in the keyboard menu in the menu bar. It can be used in any application that accepts text.

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