[swift-evolution] [Meta] Let's talk TouchBar + Unicode

[Alex Blewitt]

> On 29 Oct 2016, at 11:10, Haravikk via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Part of the problem for emoji is that the macOS special characters menu is so awkward to use; coincidentally I actually posted an enhancement request to the Apple bug reporter only yesterday asking for a more Spotlight-search like special characters selector. i.e- rather than the the awkward, tiny and hard to dismiss window something with immediate searching by relevant tags, either narrowing down for easy selection, or hitting enter for the top result.

When typing you can use Control + Command + Space to bring up the same kind of emoji keyboard as on iOS; and it searches by name as well, so you can use the spotlight-like-search selector:

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Screenshot in case the unicode characters don't survive:
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