A flag pin for your Mac

I was reading this text file on my MacBook the other day that had some strange copy/paste behavior. It turns out this was because of one of the dozens of “space” characters in Unicode, one of which was being interpreted as a linefeed in some editors and as a space in others. So I went to the Edit Menu -> Special Characters (which is in almost every cocoa app) to check it out. In the end I figured out how to replace my special character with a normal one and went about my business, only to later notice activating that menu had the side effect of enabling the “Input Menu” in my title bar. If you are in America like me, the icon for this menu is an awesome American flag logo. So now even your Mac can have its very own flag lapel pin!

(The “Input Menu” is available via System Preferences -> International -> Input menu)