Google’s ChromeOS is improving the ability to type special characters, with support for symbols and more now available in the emoji picker. Added in recent stable ChromeOS updates, the emoji picker ...

But if you frequently type special characters, a more-convenient option is Characters ( Mac App Store link). Whenever you need to “type” a special character, you just click Characters’s systemwide ...

OS X Hints reader dcottle wanted to find and replace special characters—like Tabs and hard Returns—in Pages. The program has a drop-down menu from which you can select such characters, but dcottle ...

Make your R data.table code more efficient and elegant with these special symbols and operators. Plus, learn about the new fcase() function R data.table code becomes more efficient — and elegant — ...