Character Viewer problem in High Sierra

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Character Viewer problem in High Sierra

The behavior of the Character Viewer used to insert Emoji's and Symbols seems to have changed in High Sierra. It no longer appears in some applications, and "Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar" in Keyboard Preferences won't stay enabled--when checked, it gets unchecked when the Preference panel is closed. Character viewer also seems to pop up at odd times after closing an application as well.

In some applications, notably an online editor I use on a web page in Chrome, the Character Viewer won't come up at all (although one can cut and paste characters from another application, like TextEdit or Word).

Could I have corrupted some configuration, or has Character Viewer changed its character?

Here's an example of the oddity of the preference panel:

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 11, 2017 8:57 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Oct 12, 2017 7:10 AM in response to JohnStonyB

Is the menu item Edit > Emoji & Symbols present and working right?

Try setting up a new user account and see you have the same behavior when you are logged into that.

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 12, 2017 5:36 AM in response to JohnStonyB

In system preferences/keyboard/input sources, is there a box checked for Show Input Menu in Menu Bar?

Is the menu item Edit > Emoji & Symbols present and working right?

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JohnStonyB Author

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Oct 12, 2017 6:14 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

It is, but there is odd behavior there, too. If you toggle that checkbox, the US flag appears on the menu bar (for the US keyboard) but still those null's. If you then check the "Show keyboard and emoji veiwer on menu bar" on the keyboard preferences pane, the flag disappears again (although even when it is absent, if you click where it used to be, you get the popup menu.

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