how to enter unicode for Creative Commons symbols?

I need to type in unicode for Creative Commons symbols on my MacBookPro / Catalina version MacOS 10.15.4.


I activated the hex keyboard and the unicode option, but when I search for CC symbols, they do not appear.


Examples of the unicode identifiers are 1F16D (circled CC) and 1F16E (circled C with overlaid backslash).


Has anyone had success finding a way to insert CC symbols in text?


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Posted on Jul 12, 2020 11:05 AM

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Posted on Jul 12, 2020 2:04 PM

pmpease wrote:

I activated the hex keyboard and the unicode option, but when I search for CC symbols, they do not appear.

There's no problem typing or copy/pasting the codepoints for these characters into text:


Unicode hex for 1f16d is Option d83cdd6d and for 1f16e is Option d83cdd6e


The problem is that they are so new that no fonts provided with computers include them yet, so what you will see is 🅭 or something similar.


You can download and install a font that does display these at


https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/creative-commons-unicode-fallback-font.html


In the meantime you have to use a graphic I think.



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Jul 12, 2020 2:04 PM in response to pmpease

pmpease wrote:

I activated the hex keyboard and the unicode option, but when I search for CC symbols, they do not appear.

There's no problem typing or copy/pasting the codepoints for these characters into text:


Unicode hex for 1f16d is Option d83cdd6d and for 1f16e is Option d83cdd6e


The problem is that they are so new that no fonts provided with computers include them yet, so what you will see is 🅭 or something similar.


You can download and install a font that does display these at


https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/creative-commons-unicode-fallback-font.html


In the meantime you have to use a graphic I think.



Jul 12, 2020 12:25 PM in response to pmpease

The creative commons circled CC (1F16D) was adopted in the Unicode standard released at the end of March 2020. Catalina 10.15.5 is not using this new version of unicode, so no means to enter what is presently an unsupported character. It is unknown if macOS 11 (Big Sur) will include the Unicode release from March.


You can get existing logos and button artwork directly from Creative Commons.

Jul 12, 2020 11:50 AM in response to pmpease

pmpease wrote:

I need to type in unicode for Creative Commons symbols on my MacBookPro / Catalina version MacOS 10.15.4.

I activated the hex keyboard and the unicode option, but when I search for CC symbols, they do not appear.

Examples of the unicode identifiers are 1F16D (circled CC) and 1F16E (circled C with overlaid backslash).

Has anyone had success finding a way to insert CC symbols in text?



And where is this to be used?


symbol you were looking for,

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/282171/how-to-writing-cc-the-creative-commons-logo-in-html

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