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Pro tip - you can type  on macOS with option + shift + k (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

all on the same device (pixel7a graphene):

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

A screenshot of the title with the special character mentioned simply drawing as an invalid Unicode character

Thanks for the tip!!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

Very quickly realized Google just made that character their logo as well lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Diabolical

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On Windows it doesn't show anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think Windows' is just a normal letter in a specific font, if I remember correctly!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No it just shows the unknown character symbol for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Why wouldn't you just use SHIFT + G ??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't work, just makes a "ˆ" for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You need an apple device for it to render correctly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm pretty sure my macbook is an apple device.

edit: Found it! 

option + shift + "+".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I learned this in the 90s. Definitely old news, if we are framing it that way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow I had no idea that this existed for such a long time. I've clearly been living under a rock... 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You can read more about the area of Unicode that it lives in here:

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