Emoji and symbols

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Plusol Author

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Emoji and symbols

When i select an emoji or symbol to insert it in a Pages text, it doesn't appear. Why ?

Posted on Jul 1, 2015 5:45 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 1, 2015 6:48 AM in response to Plusol

It sounds like you are using Pages 09. That was never updated to recognize the Apple Color Emoji font. If that is the case, you need to use Pages 5 or another app like TextEdit to see emoji.

It's also possible to download a non-color emoji font from the internet which should work with Pages 09.

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Plusol Author

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Jul 1, 2015 7:10 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thank you Tom for your reply but i use Pages 5.5.3.

So i go on without understand.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 1, 2015 9:42 AM in response to Plusol

Please provide an example of an emoji which does not work.

Are you using the Character Viewer and inputting via double-click or drag/drop?

Can you input emoji into TextEdit?

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Plusol Author

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Jul 1, 2015 10:18 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Well. I'm trying to input astrologic symbols in a text. So i use the "Edition" menu and i select "Emoji and symbols", then i try to input via double-click. It doesn't work.

The only way i found, is select the symbol, add it to the favorites and then make a drag/drop. But the symbol come with description and unicode references. So i have to "clean" it... To repeat this operation many times is a f... job, i lost my time.

You had understood that i'm a new user of Pages but i'm very surprised of this "bug". Certainly i don't use it in the good way but i don't find it.

And it's the same with TextEdit.

Thanks.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 1, 2015 10:35 AM in response to Plusol

I tried this with TextEdit (Pages not installed at the moment) and had no problem inputting such symbols by double clicking. Does your Character Viewer look like this?