Key Caps in OS X?

Open System Preferences. Select "International." Select the "Input Menu" tab. In the list, find "Keyboard Viewer" and put a check next to it. Make sure the "Show input menu in menu bar" is also checked below the list.

A flag should appear in your menubar. Pull it down and select "Show Keyboard Viewer."

Asinine and backward, I agree... but there it is!
 
Keycaps was an application under OS 7/8/9 that showed you a picture of your keyboard, with each letter on the keyboard being represented by the actual character corresponding to the font that was selected. You could also hold down Command, Option, Control and Shift keys in different combinations, and the keyboard would change the characters on the keyboard accordingly... for example, you could hold down the "Option" key, and an accent mark would appear above the 'e' key displayed, showing you that holding down Option and then typing 'e' would produce an e with an accent mark. Or if you held down the Shift key, all the letters would be displayed as uppercase, obviously.

You wouldn't believe the amount of characters available when you hold down different combinations of command/control/option/shift keys. It's very useful when searching for a specific "dingbat" from Zapf Dingbats, as you can just hold down different combinations of keys and see all the "dingbats" available, and which key they correspond to.
 
Jaguar has the KeyCaps app, and works with Panther, too. You can find a Mac with Jaguar, and copy the KeyCaps off. Copy to your computer, and it works!

A superscript (or subscript) character is not a standard or extended keyboard character. This can only be produced through software which provides text editing/manipulation.
 
whoa whoa whoa, no need to get personal. i hate pcs just as much as anyone can who has used windoze, but it would be nice to be able to do superscript on mac, exspecially because my company is called Homebrew²
 
The problem is that on the PC that superscript 2 is not really part of a standard font but rather part of the extended code page. Many non-english code pages stick the extra characters up there and don't even have the superscript 2 but some other non-ascii scribble.

In a i18n context DOS code pages like are used under windows are a nightmare.

-Eric
 
if you want do a superscript 2, use a program that supports superscripting. it really isn't hard.
 
DanTekGeek said:
it would be nice to be able to do superscript on mac, exspecially because my company is called Homebrew²
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umm, you can. this is what they have been telling you. its right in the os so the capability is there. for any 1 little way windows is better over osx there are 10 ways osx is better.
 
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