In part as research for a book, in part out of pure curiosity:
How do you guys typically input special characters which either have no shortcut in your current layout or one you might not know?
(I might set up an online survey for this later, but I want to make sure I know all the options first.)
Do you frequently use character palettes other than PopChar or the standard Windows/Mac OS character palettes? Which ones?
Have you set up text replacement tools to input frequently used special characters easily? How are they set up?
Is anyone actually using Unicode Hex input codes or any other special keyboard layouts?
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http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html
But maybe you mean characters that are even more special. In that case, "Edit" menu > "Special Characters…"
… plus the aforementioned UnicodeChecker and OSX Special Characters palette.
For more obscure characters, a web search (+ copy and paste) works best, just like David wrote. Often I end up on fileformat.info. Another good site is graphemica.com. Similar sites that I haven’t used much include unicode-table.com and unicodelookup.com. copypastecharacter.com is too reduced for my needs. Ugly and sometimes buggy, but great if you need to search visually: shapecatcher.com
Does anyone know more about this feature? In which versions of iOS and Mac OS is that supported? Is there a setting somewhere to turn this on and off?
I find this extremely useful. I know there are additional keyboards and apps for copying special characters, but simply typing your Mac OS X codes makes it so much simpler and faster.