Few pieces of Mac software can claim the history of PopChar, a utility that makes it a click and a hover to see the appearance of individual characters in fonts installed on your Mac. Released in 1987 ...

Sometimes you need to insert a character or symbol into a document that isn't on a standard keyboard. Windows' built-in Character Map works fine but Character Map UWP is a more modern alternative.

In a recent Mac 911, I answered Lynn Garwood’s question about character selection when she upgraded from Mavericks to El Capitan: In the old system, I could click on the [input palette] icon in the ...

So how would a character that is not in unicode, be encoded? No doubt one issue would be how would software show it, but even putting that difficulty aside. The difference has to be stored, so the ...