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Special Characters Palette Won't Open
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<blockquote data-quote="lalyos" data-source="post: 863424" data-attributes="member: 106782"><p><strong>Solution</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi, </p><p></p><p>I had the same issue on an old ibook. It took me like 2 hours to figure out the solution, so you can save the time ...</p><p></p><p>I tried to reinstall TextEdit but it didn't help, as i later realized that "Special Characters" isn't part of TextEdit, but it's part of the shared components in osx, and his name is CharPaletteServer.</p><p></p><p>So the root problem is that the CharPaletteServer is frozen. So you just have to kill it, nad it will be restarted next time you want to use the Edit/Special Chcaracters menu.</p><p></p><p>So open up ActivityMonitor form /Application/Utilities. Choose "All Processes" in the process filter at the top right corner, than type "CharPaletteServer" into the filter box. Select the process and click "Quick Process" and than "Force Quit". Next time you choose Edit/Special Characters it will work fine again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lalyos, post: 863424, member: 106782"] [b]Solution[/b] Hi, I had the same issue on an old ibook. It took me like 2 hours to figure out the solution, so you can save the time ... I tried to reinstall TextEdit but it didn't help, as i later realized that "Special Characters" isn't part of TextEdit, but it's part of the shared components in osx, and his name is CharPaletteServer. So the root problem is that the CharPaletteServer is frozen. So you just have to kill it, nad it will be restarted next time you want to use the Edit/Special Chcaracters menu. So open up ActivityMonitor form /Application/Utilities. Choose "All Processes" in the process filter at the top right corner, than type "CharPaletteServer" into the filter box. Select the process and click "Quick Process" and than "Force Quit". Next time you choose Edit/Special Characters it will work fine again. [/QUOTE]
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