characters

Access special characters in any Mac application

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Guest poster Andrew J. Gnoza, III shares his Tip for quick ways to access and type unusual characters.

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Dead Keys

How to type European and other accents such as the grave, acute and umlaut. You probably need ‘dead’ keys to do it.

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Keycaps

How to find and type characters such as umlauts, macrons and even scissors and cars!

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