Use Special Characters & Emoji Directly in the Finder of Mac OS X 10.7

[Geek]

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/special-characters-finder.jpg" alt="Access Special Characters & Emoji from the Finder in Mac OS X Lion" title="special-characters-finder" width="620" height="478" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21324" /></p>

<p>If you want to quickly <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/15/style-folders-in-mac-os-x-with-emoji-icons/">style your folders</a> or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/08/customize-launchpad-folders-with-emoji/">Launchpad</a> with Emoji, you can access the Special Characters panel directly from the Finder in Mac OS X Lion:</p>

<ul>

<li>Click on the Finder or the Mac OS X desktop</li>

<li>Pull down the “Edit” menu and select “Special Characters”</li>

</ul>

<p>Here’s the weird part, and this could be a bug or maybe it’s intentional, but if you right-click on an item from the Special Characters panel and chose “Copy Character Info”, instead of getting just the icon into your clipboard you’ll get the full unicode and more, like this:</p>

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