What 🮰 means
MouseText turns the B slot into a pointer. The Apple IIc brought MouseText to the Apple II in 1984; the enhanced Apple IIe added it later. These 32 small graphics let software draw mouse-driven desktop interfaces on the text screen. With MouseText active, slot $42 displays 🮰; outside that mode, it displays B.
Unicode gives the pointer its own character identity, so using it no longer depends on an Apple display mode.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🮰 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with 🮰
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How to type or find 🮰
- Search it as
- mousetext · mouse text · apple ii pointer · mouse pointer · pointer icon
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🮰CSS
\1FBB0Apple II BASIC MouseText
In Applesoft BASIC, Apple's built-in language, run
PR#3; print CHR$(27) to enable MouseText, CHR$(15) for inverse mode, then B (slot $42).Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🮰
HTML hex
🮰
CSS content
content: "\1FBB0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AE%B0
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.