On Windows, this console command creates an invisible character that takes up no space. How do I do this on Mac OSX?
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Alt+0173 on a Mac(Snow Leopard)???
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I'm going to let you think about that for a second. An invisible character that acts as a character and is viewed as a character by any forum, but is completely invisible. You can't see any use for that?
Someone's new to the internet.
Kids use it to getbaround word filtersnon forums and stuff.
No need to be a douche, he was just asking why something like his would be used for.
What you are looking for is called a soft hyphen. I don't think it exists in OSX.. But I could be wrong.
Edit: depending in your browser if you bring up the character viewer you can insert it manually..Not a solution to do it with a key combo, but it may be good enough.
In chrome it is under edit-> special characters then just search soft hyphen
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Someone's a dirty little skiddie.
Interestingly enough, douchy things are just about all you would use it for.
In the character palette (Edit » Spacial Characters) you can view all those little nasties, a soft hyphen isn't what you want, but I'm sure the OP can find it himself. The numbers are listed on the left hand panel in the "Unicode" section.
I've already scanned through the special characters, and I have yet to find it. Also, it's mainly used(Or at least it's intended use) when the text input ignores the space bar for things like indents.
So let me get this straight: there is no way(Whether through keyboard, special characters, add ons, etc.) that I can make the alt+0173 character on a Mac operating system? That is really, really stupid.
According to
http://www.typeco.com/Downloads/KeyChart-Combo.pdf
Control-/ should work; I'm not sure how to verify that though.
http://www.typeco.com/Downloads/KeyChart-Combo.pdf
Control-/ should work; I'm not sure how to verify that though.
You can make any unicode character, just a matter of finding it yourself, it's not difficult.
For reference, U0173 is a greek character 'ų', not the character you're looking for.
Nah.
No, for reference, U+0173 refers to the unicode hexadecimal equivalent of 371 which is the ų character - not the same thing as alt+0173 which is the way a Windows computer creates the decimal version of a unicode character.
Also, ų is not part of the Greek alphabet it's called "Latin Small Letter U With Ogonek" which appears in Lithuanian and several Native American languages.
alt+0173 (U+00AD) is the soft hyphen that the OP is looking for.