Since upgrading to Mavericks I've had a rather odd problem with emails sent via my Mail app. When composing an email to be sent via an exchange server (rich text format, using Helvetica as the standard message font) all the characters look fine to me, but my recipients have suggested odd characters in my messages. In the Text Import Wizard - Step 1 of 3 dialog box, select Delimited, and from the File origin drop-down list, select 65001: Unicode (UTF-8) (or the appropriate language character identifier for your particular environment).

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You can use the Character Viewer to insert smileys, dingbats, and other symbols as you type. • Click the place in your document or message where you want the character to appear. • Press Control–Command–Space bar. The Character Viewer pop-up window appears: • Use the search field at the top of the window, or click to expand the window and reveal more characters: • When you find the character that you want, click or double-click it to insert it into your text.

In the app, you can also see the Character Viewer popup when you click in the lower-right corner. With macOS Sierra or later, emoji you send in Messages appear at the same size as the text they're part of. Parallels server for mac.

If you just send a few emoji without any other text, the emoji appear three times larger. To type an accented or alternate version of a character, press and hold a key until its alternate characters appear. To choose one of the characters displayed, type the number that appears under the character, or click the character you want to use. If you decide you don't want to type an accented character after holding a key, type another character, or press the Esc (escape) key. If no additional characters are available for the key you're holding, the accent menu doesn't appear.

The menu also doesn't appear when the Key Repeat slider is set to Off in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences. Some keys repeat when you press and hold them, depending on where you type them. Press and hold the Space bar or symbol keys (like hyphen or equals) to make these characters repeat in most apps. In apps where accented characters aren't used (like Calculator, Grapher, or Terminal), letter and number keys also repeat when you press and hold them.

If a character isn't repeating, check the Keyboard pane of System Preferences to make sure that the Key Repeat slider isn't set to Off. If a key isn't designed to repeat in the app you’re using, copy the character to the clipboard. Then, hold Command-V to paste the character or word repeatedly.