Pro tip - you can type on macOS with option + shift + k
from cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 06:44
https://lemmy.world/post/16939427
from cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 06:44
https://lemmy.world/post/16939427
Basically the title. Maybe this is old news, but I didn’t know about this trick until recently. Have fun, use responsibly :)
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I learned this in the 90s. Definitely old news, if we are framing it that way.
Wow I had no idea that this existed for such a long time. I’ve clearly been living under a rock… 😅
You can read more about the area of Unicode that it lives in here:
Private Use Areas
Doesn’t work, just makes a “ˆ” for me.
You need an apple device for it to render correctly
I’m pretty sure my macbook is an apple device.
edit: Found it!
option + shift + “+”.
Why wouldn’t you just use SHIFT + G ??
Got this post in my feed, on my android phone, and was very confused on why you would want to type a Google logo on your mac
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/21002be8-f4b1-4833-81f8-c7c6cb609c78.png">
Very quickly realized Google just made that character their logo as well lmao
On Windows it doesn’t show anything.
I think Windows’ is just a normal letter in a specific font, if I remember correctly!
No it just shows the unknown character symbol for me.
Lol I misunderstood what you meant, my bad
Yeah, Windows won’t show it unless you can get a Mac font on there, I guess
Diabolical
Weird, I am on Android as well and all I see is the ol’ X in a box.
Maybe it’s a Google phone only thing.
<img alt="A screenshot of the title with the special character mentioned simply drawing as an invalid Unicode character " src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a42bf9d0-a42c-47bf-88fc-0ca8ede970de.jpeg">
Thanks for the tip!!
all on the same device (pixel7a graphene): <img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/8bb2b2bb-59fc-4a1c-8684-57286ad42fbd.jpeg"> <img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f367d67b-378a-4a63-972f-4608e3ec2b7e.jpeg"> <img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/3edd4e16-fd01-4e41-ac80-3f2484772511.jpeg">