(Note that ` is slightly different slightly different from ‘ … on my keyboard, it is located right of the left-side Shift key.)įor ä, ë, ï, ö, ü: press ” and directly after that, the vowel.įor ã, ñ, õ: press ˜ and directly after that, the letter. Now, just like in Windows, you can use these keyboard combos:įor á, é, í, ó, ú: press ‘ and directly after that, the vowel.įor à, è, ì, ò, ù: press ` and directly after that, the vowel. Click the keyboard icon in the upper right corner of your screen again, and make sure it’s set to this new keyboard configuration. In that same System Preferences window, scroll down and put a checkmark in front of US International – PC. The ones highlighted in orange are the ones that follow the tip above. You’ll see all kinds of characters you can type. Try holding down the Shift key, and Shift-Option as well. Hold down the Option key, and you can see all the special characters you get when using that key as a modifier. Click on that new icon in the upper right corner of your screen, and choose “Show Keyboard Viewer,” and a little keyboard will appear. If you go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources and put a checkmark in front of “Keyboard & Character Viewer,” it puts up a little box at the top right of your screen. To accent a letter, hold down the Option key, type the character representing that accent mark, then type the letter you want underneath it. My other problem is in describing the alternate characters, so that I can group them.If you want to spell café correctly, how do you get that accent over the e? Or get that tilde over the n when you write niño in Spanish? There are a few ways to do it.įirst, holding down the Option key (on the bottom row of your keyboard) gives you common diacritical marks: e=´, i=ˆ, u=¨, n=˜, ~=`. I'll try to post in examples of the differences: hope they take Which means me having to add another two columns to my table, and having to relist the numbers and re-alt-ing them. So there seem to be two sets of characters and which you get depends on that lead zero. ’d not used a lead zero and the characters I get are not the same as in your list when I added the zero they were. I’d started making my own list, going through all the numbers and “alt”ing the result – up to 1050 so far! īut I’ve just found that using a leading zero makes a difference to the result. To type the tilde accent you will then tap the letter ‘n’ twice in a row. On a PC you will start by tapping the ‘Ctrl’ button. ALT Codes for letters with accents Uppercase For the tilde, you will tap the tilde key ‘’ then the letter ‘n’.
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