I am having trouble inserting special characters into a document. Not sure if it’s related, but I am running Yosemite.
It seems like an issue with the window interaction. When I do CTRL+CMD+SPACE, the special characters window appears, but not at the location of my cursor.
When I do CTRL+CMD+SPACE I get a different looking special characters pallet that looks like this:
And double-clicking does seem to insert the special character. Do you change some default setting to get that newer looking special character pallet? I’m also using OS X 10.10.