Geek Answers Handbook

In OS X, how do I enter a second-plane Unicode character with a standard input method editor?

I want to check that my Cocoa application correctly processes input data outside the base multilingual plane, and copying the insert is out of the question. I do not know how to use a character outside BMP! I set up Japanese as an input source and can get random Katakana or Hiragana by typing words that sound in Japanese, but this trick will not work for 2 characters of the plane. Inserting characters in firing the input method editor, so this doesn't work either. I think that I really need to type the correct keystrokes on my English English keyboard into some input language source (Chinese would be a good choice, presumably). If this is not obvious, I do not speak any Asian languages.

Here is an example of some characters in the second plane: http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/UnihanGrid.pl?codepoint=20000

Any unicode character above 0xffff will be acceptable for my purposes, as long as I can display a glyph with a font that I have or can get for free.

+5
source share
1 answer

, Character Viewer. OS X 10.6 System Preferences -> Language & Text -> Input Sources Keyboard & Character Viewer , Show Input menu in menu bar. OS X. , . View -> Code Tables. Unicode , , BMP. Insert, , : 𠈄.

+3

More articles:


All Articles