If you ever find yourself needing characters or symbols that aren’t on your keyboard, Windows has an easy fix: “Character Map.”A character map of all special symbols (including foreign ...

Choose the U.S. Extended keyboard from the Input menu. (Its menu bar icon differs from the standard U.S. keyboard by the little add-on U, for Unicode.) Sometimes Keyboard Viewer doesn’t update when ...

But you unlock even more strange characters if you try the technique on symbols in the iPhone keyboard. Hold on a hyphen to unlock the longer (and longer still!) en-dash and em-dash.

Instead of copying and pasting Internet search results for characters like an animal, use UniChar, an iOS keyboard app that puts the rest of Unicode’s more traditional characters and symbols ...

Uniconsole does one thing extremely well, and while the characters and symbols it collects can be found online with a bit of research, I’ll take the convenience of a Universal app over wasting my time ...

Screenshot of Windows 11 with the symbols panel, Character Map, and keyboard settings open© Provided by XDA Developers Screenshot of Windows 11 Settings with the Time & Language section ...

Smartphones have interchangeable keyboard layouts and can change between different looks with a touch, and this may be something that Apple aims to achieve in its new patent for the Mac.