Emoji, symbols and special letters in OS X Mountain Lion

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When we talk about special characters we mean symbols, special letters and emoticons that normally are not physically seen on the keyboard keys as a normal letter or number on keyboards, but not because it is not visible, it means that it does not exist.

This type of symbols, letters and emoticons can be included on the keyboard as a tip, and when we do the combination of keys that we assign on our Mac keyboard come out on their own (only valid for OS Soy de Mac We will discover how to do it in a very simple way, even easier, than the trick to adjust volume on MacLet's start with the easy part, everyone knows about the existence on iOS and other platforms of the cute emotions called "emoji", well, in OS X Mountain Lion they are also included and we can access them to use them. In OS X, we can also use them directly with the key combination that we create ourselves, for the emoji that we use most often or those that we want.

Let's get to the point: the first thing we have to do is click on System Preferences / Language & Text and then in the tab Text, click on the + that we have in the lower left and place our abbreviation, in the image you can see that there is one created after 7/8:

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Once we have the combination entered, we have to open the emoji symbols and it is as simple as pressing the keys alt + cmd + t within the Language and Text window (It is important that the key combination is made inside that window, otherwise it will not come out) select the emoji, symbol or letter that we want to appear, and drag it into the rectangle next to it (By) and now we have it created.

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Every time we make that combination of keys that we have created, the selected emoji will appear. We also have the option of directly removing the window where all the emoji, symbols and special letters are found, by clicking on them we insert them in our text, but we leave this for another entry, since it requires other types of steps to follow.

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  1.   SchizoBoy said

    I find it embarrassing that Jordi Giménez systematically copies articles from another blog over and over again and publishes them as his own, without naming the source or thanking his work. This same entry, like so many others, can be found with a minimal difference in time on the OSXDaily blog. It seems perfect to me that he translates many of the articles they publish in English, but at the very least, and as he would surely like them to do with his work, he should name the source, which after all is the one who works the topics and the contents. Here the link to the original topic: http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/12/convert-text-to-emoji-mac/

  2.   Jordi Giménez said

    I think that tutorials of this type exist in many other blogs and websites on the net, the images are mine and the process to activate this option is always the same, there are no other ways that I know of to get it in that case, if the I do not know.

    For me this is not a copy, it is a tutorial explained in my own way, but I will not enter into discussions about this, if you really believe that it is copied, I respect your opinion but I do not share it.

    All the best