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.

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I checked and saw that EMOJI001.TTF contain only 30 chars.

Moved to the trash !

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 4 janvier 2011 17:52:45

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2

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Symbol is not the same as Symbola?😊

HenryS wrote:

Symbol is not the same as Symbola?😊

"Symbol" is often an old pre-Uncode font which was used to type math symbols directly from the English keyboard layout. Ideally nobody should use it anymore.

Symbola is a new font created to let you input Unicode emoticons and other symbols via the Character Viewer.

Tom,

I found the OTF (OpenType?) file at fonts2u, and loaded it up. However in Lion, OS X 10.7.3, the character viewer representation is the same, no B&W characters for many emoticons. I can paste selected Unicode characters into Pages. However, I can still NOT find or paste many emoticons... Screen shot of my character viewer US Extended with pictograph. There should be alot more, no? Apple version of color emoticons still a no-go in Symbola.

It's not really likely that some other font is going to have exactly the same designs for emoticons as Apple's special Color Emoji font, if that is what you are seeking. The "official" versions can be found at the Unicode site:

http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf

For many emoticons, you need to look in the Emoji category, not Pictographs.

Think I'm beginning to get the hang of how Character Viewer should work. Tried to find the Symbola font (Symbola.otf is installed in Startup Disk/Library/Fonts) in TextEdit and it did not show. After installing, do I need to reboot to allow that font to be discovered? I read where the .OTF font is supposed to automaticlly appear.

I think it should be enough to restart TextEdit. I am using the .TTF version myself.

Thanks.

Apparently the conflict was due to having dragged Symbola into the Fonts folder instead of the double click install method, which apparently places it in a Font Book. The latter method worked after reconciling (and/or deleting) the original drag 'n' drop version. Also reconciled several apparently "duplicated" fonts (multiple appearances), while in there.

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H

Remember the old WIngDings fonts (versions 1-3)? Those work equally well with this system.

Also several newer TTF types like Lucida (and it's versions, including Handwriting) work nicely with pictographic emoticons, just not colored ones in several cases. And of course you have to know where to find 'em.

HenryS wrote:

Remember the old WIngDings fonts (versions 1-3)? Those work equally well with this system.

WingDings and WebDings are somewhat special in that they use the Unicode Private Use Area, which means you can not normally depend on anyone at the other end seeing the same thing you do (unless you send them as a pdf or a graphic).