How to make symbols on facebook?

[Meghan<3]

How do you make those little stars and music notes on facebook? I have a mac and the directions I keep finding don't work on my computer.

[Poor taste]

Sorry, those only work on a PC as far as I know. ☺☼♪♫♥♦♠♣☺
Perhaps you can copy and paste.

[Abdelhamid Yafrah]

You can find the best answer on youtube: this is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5V7jq_RBf0

[Jallan]

The Macintosh, Microsoft PCs, and Linux all have different ways to enter the various Unicode characters and applications sometimes have their own ways of entering them.

All the Unicode characters appear in the official Unicode charts at http://www.unicode.org/charts/ . Each code point in Unicode has a unique hexadecimal identifier which is often used to place the character onto a page. and this can be used the same way on any computer on many sites.

As an example, the symbol ☞ has the identifier 261E. If you enter “& # x” (ignoring the the quotation marks and spaces), follow it with the id (in upper or lower case and ignoring any leading zeros if you wish), and follow it with a semi-colon (, you will have created an HTML hexadecimal entity or the right-pointing hand. If you type an HTML hexadecimal entity into Facebook or most forums (including this one) and then preview or save your text, the HTML hexadecimal entity turns into the character that it represents.

You can also use the Character Palette on the Macintosh.

1. From the Apple menu, go to “System Preferences”.
2. Click on “International”.
3. Click on “Input Menu”.
4. If the “Character Palette” box is not checked, check it now.
5. If you want to be able to easily bring up the “Character Palette” from your menu bar, click the box labelled “Show Input Menu” in “Menu Bar”. An icon should appear to the left of the date and time displaying the symbol for your default input language and method. If you click on the icon, “Show Character Palette” will be one of the available choices.

See http://www.apple.com/pro/techniques/glyphspalette/ for more information.

If you want to make use of the hexadecimal id codes in the Unicode charts to simply type non-keyboard characters on the fly with your keyboard, you'll need to first enable the Unicode Hex Input keyboard (installed with OS X). To do this:

1. Go to the Apple menu → System Preferences → International.
2. Click the tab called either “Input Menu” or “Keyboard Menu” (whichever your OS version has).
3. Check the keyboards you want to activate. In this case, the one you want is called “Unicode Hex Input”. (If you haven't yet enabled the Character Palette, you can do this now from the same screen.)
4. Make sure “Show input menu in menu bar” is checked.
5. Close the International control panel.

Now, when you want to type Unicode hexadecimal codes to produce the characters, switch keyboards from the flag icon drop-down menu on the upper right of your screen, then hold down the Option key and type the four-digit code corresponding to the Unicode character you need.

(If the Unicode Hex Input keyboard is greyed out in the input menu, it means you're working in an application that doesn’t support it.)

See also the Unicode utilities available for the Macintosh, most of them free, at http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities.html#osx .