Special characters in AppleWorks

[Mikuro]

The other day, my sister asked me how to get a backwards c (?) of the International Phonetic Alphabet. So I took a minute to configure her input menu and showed her what I thought would be her new best friend: the character palette. My demonstration worked, and she was impressed. Then she asked me to put it where she actually needed it, in an AppleWorks file. Uh oh. It doesn't work with AppleWorks. I can drag the character from the palette, but it appears as a capital T.

I'm not sure if this problem is inherent to Carbon programs or just antiquated, poorly-ported Carbon programs like AppleWorks. In any case, does anyone know of a way around this? Back in OS 9, she had special IPA fonts installed for this kind of thing. Are there any OS X equivalents that would work in AppleWorks?

 

[MisterMe]

For apps that don't support the Character Palette, the Keyboard Viewer will show you the proper keystrokes and combinations to access all available characters in any font. Enable the Keyboard Viewer via the International Preferences pane.

 

[Mikuro]

Ah, thanks for the tip. I never noticed that before.

Unfortunately, the backwards C, and many IPA characters, just aren't available there. Bummer. So I guess I need to look for special fonts.

If anyone can point me in the right direction, that'd be great. Otherwise I'll start searching later, and I'll post back here if I find what I'm looking for.