non-standard characters?

nervus

nervus

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Hi
Could anyone tell me how to get non-standard characters like in german and scandinavian languages? I seem to remember that you can do that by giving special key-strokes :confused:

Greetings
nervus
 
umlaut letters: alt-u and then the letter. so äüö
ø = alt-o
úíóáó come with alt-e and letter.
ãõñ come with alt-n.
âîôû come with alt-i.
å = alt-a.
¥ = alt -y.
I wish I remembered the combination for the letters with the accent the other way. I will need it soon. :)
 
use alt-`and letter for àèìòù

there is a small application in Apple Utilities named Key Caps that lets you check the key mapping
 
I did not find the right ' on my new keyboard.

Also, the keyboard layout decides what combinations work. In Italian keyboard some letters are different from those in US so to get the yen sign, the tilde etc, i need to find the right combo for that key on the specific (if non-US) keyboard.
 
There is also the character palette, which yo ucan put in your menubar: very usefull for even less-standard characters ... like all kinds of arrows, crosses, stars, asterisks, ornamental punctuation, and useful things like mathematical symbols and parantheses.
 
Originally posted by Giaguara
I did not find the right ' on my new keyboard.

Also, the keyboard layout decides what combinations work. In Italian keyboard some letters are different from those in US so to get the yen sign, the tilde etc, i need to find the right combo for that key on the specific (if non-US) keyboard.
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right ' is the ' just on the side of the left shift key.
 
' is left of the right shift. alt' is æ.
right of left shift is z. alt z is sigma, it does not show correctly posted in safari ...
 
There is also the character palette
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After my last posting I discovered this utility too: it is very useful indeed. Especially when one has to use the odd character that is foreign to one's own language.

Greetings
nervus
 
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