I have Lion on my Mac ProBook. Using Pages "09 4.1 I can't get special character like "Emoji" to work! Punctuation, arrows, etc work fine.

Jan,

It seems to be a Pages bug. It's been discussed here before. You can submit Feedback via the Pages menu.

Emoji in TextEdit works OK. If this is critical, it would be a good excuse to practice with TextEdit. 🙂

Jerry

Jan

These are two entirely different things. The "Special Characters" are Unicode characters in fonts.

Emoticons and Emoji are substituted icons for certain typed combinations like : ) 🙂, : ( 😟. This is a software trick.

If you want the actual little pictures just go to the various websites where they are available and copy paste or drag them into Pages like any other graphic.

http://www.bandoo.com/?ad=153

Recently emoji have been added to the Unicode set:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

But you need to find a font that actually includes them as glyphs. This is the only one I can find and don't know if it meets your needs:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/EMOJI001.TTF

Emoticons and Emoji are common for browsers and email where such indicators of otherwise hard to tell facial expresions are useful. Such usage in a Word Processor or DTP application is very much a minority usage and perfectly met by simple imported graphics.

Peter

PS How do you not get these emoticons: 🙂 😁 😝 😉 😐 😠 😊 😕 😎 😢 👿 😀 😍 😟 😮 ℹ ➕ ➖ ⚠

JanDeer wrote:

A picture of a skull looks like it should be available in the "Emoji" section; but it will not, nor will any other emticon, consent to showing up in my text!

The problem is that Pages does not yet support the special Apple Color Emoji font included with Lion. It will however produce these characters if you install the normal black/white font Symbola, available via the archive link at

http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

Recently emoji have been added to the Unicode set:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

Apple has included color fonts that cover the new emoji allocation in both OS X Lion and iOS 5, but they do not work in every app. A possible non-Apple font for them is Symbola or Quivira.

Tom

It looks like Pages '09 predates the changes in the Unicode allocation which were really to meet compatibility needs on mobile phones.

I think this should not be a high priority in a WP/DTP application. I can think of much more urgent updates for Apple to get on with.

Personally I'd like a fondue set in the driver's armrest of my car, but I have been unable to pursuade BMW or Mercedes to come up with this obvious requirement. 🙂

Peter

JanDeer wrote:

I just checked the link you offered but the author said he would no longer maintain the site.

That doesn't matter, just click on the Fonts link at the bottom right of the page so you can download the Symbola font and have your emoji.

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

It looks like Pages '09 predates the changes in the Unicode allocation

Pages can display the new unicode emoji allocation just fine, as long as you use some other font than the one Apple provides with Lion.

Hi Tom

I installed Symbola for see.

When I insert emoticons in Pages, I get only black and white chars and the figure doesn't match the Unicode ones.

Just one example :

Unicode U+1F498 (HEART WITH ARROW)

In fact, it seems that the problem is that Pages is unable to display colored emoji.

When I insert in TextEdit Emojis from Apple Emoji couleur, EMOJI001.TTF and Symbola.ttf,

I get identical colored chars for the first two fonts, black & white ones from the 3rd one.

If I copy-paste to Pages, nothing is displayed for the two first ones, only the 3rd one appear.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 4 janvier 2011 14:41:42

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Hi Yvan,

For the "official" Unicode version of a glyph you need to look at the Unicode pdf charts instead of what is displayed on your Mac from its installed fonts.

http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F300.pdf

Of course Unicode does not do color, so the standard glyph is always black and white. In fact, Apple Color Emoji is an Apple-only extension of standard font capabilities. I don't think you will find any other color fonts around, and I think you will find there are lots of situations in which Apple Color Emoji will not function.

PS Please have a look at the repertoire of emoji001.ttf via Fontbook or whatever. I don't think this font is what the name implies. When you select it for a Unicode emoji, the OS/app will simply substitute Apple Color Emoji or Symbola or nothing.

Thanks Tom

(1) So, we have a new instance of Apple's "Think different" rule.

Not only they apply colors to the emojis but they changed their basic figures.

(2) I misunderstood your sentence :

Pages can display the new unicode emoji allocation just fine, as long as you use some other font than the one Apple provides with Lion.

I thought that you were saying that Pages was able to display colored emojis using Symbola 😟

(3) It's a bit funny to see :

BLUE HEART, GREEN HEART, PURPLE HEART, GREEN BOOK, BLUE BOOK, ORANGE BOOK, LARGE RED CIRCLE, LARGE BLUE CIRCLE, LARGE ORANGE DIAMOND, LARGE BLUE DIAMOND, SMALL ORANGE DIAMOND, SMALL BLUE DIAMOND, UP-POINTING RED TRIANGLE, DOWN-POINTING RED TRIANGLE, UP-POINTING SMALL RED TRIANGLE, DOWN-POINTING SMALL RED TRIANGLE in a black & white only set of chars 😉

(4) The colored Emojis are also available in EMOJI001.TTF but I don't know if non Apple apps are able to display them.

(5) Is Pages for iOS aware of Apple Color Emoji ?

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 4 janvier 2011 16:51:56

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KOENIG Yvan wrote:

(5) Is Pages for iOS aware of Apple Color Emoji ?

Yes.