Windows 10: Rather annoying that Windows has the feature to add special characters/emoji keyboard, but...

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Insert emoji/special characters anywhere

so, I have to admit it. On OSX there's a hotkey which makes a popup appear that has all kinds of specials characters and emoji the user can instantly insert into any text-ish field. I'm not familiar with OSX, but I know this one by accident.

Can Windows 10 please have something like that as well?

The touch keybaord isn't really suitable for this, for four reasons:

1) It's too far away from a text field

2) It's too touch-optimized, making it feel silly to operate with a mouse

3) Pressing any physical key makes it dissapear

4) It doesn't contain very many special characters at all, it's only "good" for emoji

So, press some kind of hotkey, like Win+something, and then a small popup appears at the caret position, which may or may not be similar to charmap. But without charmap's hassle of having to dig through *everything* and copypasting it.

 

Special keyboard characters.

I cannot find the special characters "ð" and "þ" in the Keyboard.



These are special Icelandic characters, Do they exist at all?



If not does anyone know if they will come with the Mango update?

 

How to fix emoji keyboard not showing up using shortcut

Hi,

This issue is often caused by a corrupted or missing data file. To better isolate if this is a user profile specific or an emerging issue, we suggest that you create a new user profile and try to use the same keyboard shortcut to get the emoji keyboard to
show up. Here's the link for the steps on how to:
Set up accounts.

In the meantime, we'll give you the steps for a workaround to access the emojis. Here are the steps:

• Right-click on the Taskbar.
• Select the Show touch keyboard button option and a keyboard icon will show up on your
  Taskbar.
  
• Click the keyboard icon and select the emoji button.

Let us know how it goes and we'll assist you further if needed.