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hi i want to make these unicode text like that in title or like these:

٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃•̃).

 
Any idea? Thanks

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why don't you just copy/ paste? – joe Oct 8 at 8:45
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I want to know how does it come in multiline fashion? take (●̮̮̃•̃) for example. Why do i get a feeling that it is in multiline? – Anirudh Goel Oct 8 at 8:55
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heh. utf emoticons. whodathunkit. – ~quack Oct 8 at 8:59
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+1 for smilies 3.0 – Marius Oct 21 at 6:58
cute smilies ! +1 ! – Preets Oct 21 at 14:36
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As for your confusion about multi-line: There are numerous diacritics at work here. Those are combining characters that get placed above or below other characters. If we dissect the specific smiley (●̮̮̃•̃) we get the following:

(   U+0028  Left Parenthesis (this is obvious)

●   U+25CF  Black Circle (this will be the left eye)

 ̮  U+032E  Combining breve below (this gets part of the mouth)
           The fact that it's placed slightly right of the circle is a
           font issue. Normally it should appear directly below the
           preceding character

 ̮  U+032E  Combining breve below (still part of the mouth)

 ̃   U+0303  Combining Tilde (this will be the left eyebrow)

•   U+2022  Bullet (right eye)

 ̃   U+0303  Combining Tilde (eyebrow)

)   U+0029  Right Parenthesis

It's some clever use of diacritic characters that creates the illusion of multiple lines here. Combining characters can be stacked, as seen with the breve, but usually the results are less good.

You can paste the smileys into Word and by placing the cursor after a character and pressing Alt+C you can cause the character to be replaced with its Unicode code point in hexadecimal. In the case of diacritics you first replace the diacritic and then can proceed with the base character (or still more diacritics if they are there). The other way around works too. You can enter 2022 and press Alt+C and get a bullet point.

So for getting the smiley above you can use the following string of letters and numbers:

002825CF032E032E0303202203030029

paste it into Word and hit Alt+C every four places, beginning at the left.

Note: In the preceding paragraphs I have used the hotkey Alt+C exclusively. When not using Word but instead some variant of RichEdit (for example in WordPad) this becomes Alt+X instead. Also, as mentioned in the comments, for some people apparently it's Alt+X in Word, too. In the interest of brevity I will only talk about Alt+C, but you should use whatever variant applies to you. Another method, mentioned in this answer would be to use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12 which seems to work as well. Just in case there aren't enough options yet.

Note 2: In the overview of characters used for the smiley above the spacing seems off in some places. This had technical reasons and may differ from one browser to another. Also some combining characters tended to disappear which is why some of them are shifted to the right.

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Or see "Insert Unicode characters via the keyboard?" at superuser.com/questions/47420/… – Arjan van Bentem Oct 8 at 9:21
And for those not seeing the funny characters: read about using "Arial Unicode MS" in "Get Dingbats to appear in Firefox 3?" at superuser.com/questions/14087/… – Arjan van Bentem Oct 8 at 9:25
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Arial Unicode MS is not a sane font to use: blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2007/07/15/… ... in fact, the smileys display horribly here with Arial Unicode MS. Pasting them into word uses a mixture of Arial, Calibri and Cordia New. Please don't recommend Arial Unicode MS where it does more harm than good (almost everywhere, if we are to believe Michael Kaplan). Verdana also works well. – Johannes Rössel Oct 8 at 9:38
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In Word 2007 (on XP), it seems to be Alt+X that does the conversion, not Alt+C. – Graham Clark Oct 22 at 7:17
Graham: incorporated into the answer. Or at least a little clarified. Perhaps I should just talk about "The Hotkey™" instead of giving any specific keystrokes ... – Johannes Rössel Oct 22 at 15:24
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Please note that the unicode smileys in this question should look like this image, below if they are rendering properly:

If they do not look like the above, your OS or browser (more likely the OS, as the browser typically relies on the OS to handle font rendering) is rendering the unicode incorrectly.

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not that I know anything about it, but is it possible that the messed up version is the standards compliant version? – cobbal Oct 21 at 20:31
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Firefox/Camino (Gecko Engine) on OS X 10.6.1: dl.getdropbox.com/u/262054/camino.png Safari on OS X 10.6.1: dl.getdropbox.com/u/262054/safari.png Weird. Surprisingly, the title bar on both applications get it right: dl.getdropbox.com/u/262054/windowbar.png – Martin Marconcini Oct 21 at 21:17
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About OS X not rendering correctly, it is not an OS issue. Just that StackOverflow uses "Trebuchet MS" as its preferred font that do not contain those glyphs. Try removing the "Trebuchet MS" declaration using some kind of debugging tool (Firebug) and you will see that that Helvetica renders correctly. And yes, it is also a browser issue not to fall back to the next font when the preferred font does not contain the glyphs. So here, StackOverflow is at fault, helped a little by dumb Firefox. – Vincent Robert Oct 22 at 7:04
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Vincent, you sure about that? I got multiple confirmations from Mac users on Twitter that even when cutting and pasting into textedit (which obviously does not use Trebuchet) the rendering still isn't correct. – Jeff Atwood Oct 22 at 7:07
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@Jeff, I think copying from a browser into TextEdit does copy the font information as well: I use that a lot to see which font is used on a web site. (Tools like Firebug tell me which fonts have been requested by the CSS, but to tell which font eventually is used, I always paste into TextEdit and then look at the selection in the font list.) However, pasting into TextEdit renders (almost) fine, but then uses a combination of Geeza Pro and Lucida Grande for the combined glyphs, and Trebuchet MS for the simple glyphs. – Arjan van Bentem Oct 22 at 8:07
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Copy and paste:

◎ܫ◎

ಠﭛಠ

⊙_ʘ

♨_♨

ಠ_ಠ

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teddy, om nom, hurr?, the goggles, and my all time fav unicode expression. – Will Oct 22 at 13:15
In what OS/browser does this look alright? (Not in any browser on my Mac or an old WinXP, though on WinXP Firefox does the best job only not displaying the 4th correctly.) – Arjan van Bentem Jan 13 at 14:04
vista and 7, ie and chrome. – Will Jan 13 at 15:46
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If these are too complex, Unicode #263A (☺) and Unicode #2639 (☹) are supported by most OSes and browsers.

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Here is another nice one:

̡͌l̡̡̡ ̴̡ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡|̲̲̲͡͡͡ ̲▫̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ̲̲͡▫̲̲͡͡ ̲|̡̡̡ ̡ ̴̡ı̴̡̡ ̡͌l̡

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In what OS/browser does this look alright? (Not in any browser on my Mac or an old WinXP, though on both Firefox does the best job, but not perfect.) – Arjan van Bentem Jan 13 at 14:03
I am running IE 8 on XP SP3 and it looks great – BlueRaja Jan 21 at 16:29
@Arjan: basically this stuff depends on unicode/UTF-8 support and a good (complete) font. I'd guess that WinXP is lacking on both parts, while I would have expected OSX to be better on both, I can imagine that a different font screws up the results. – David Schmitt Jan 25 at 14:02
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what do you mean? you're doing them already. Just look up the unicode chars and start combining them in your way.

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As Johannes Rössel said , you can use this online editor to convert ascii characters to unicode / your preferable format and change it whenever you need.

Online Unicode Converter

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