Typing special characters and symbols
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Typing special characters and symbols
You can type a variety of international and other special symbols
and characters (including characters with diacritical marks, such as
accents) by pressing combinations of keys.
The Key Caps program, which is installed with your system
software, shows you the characters produced when you type
certain keys and key combinations in the fonts available on your
computer. Choose Key Caps from the Apple (
A
) menu, then choose
the font from the Key Caps menu.
To have Key Caps show more options for special characters, press
each of these keys or key combinations: Option, Shift, Shift-Option,
Shift-
Z
, and Option-
Z
.
If you press the Option key, Key Caps outlines lightly the keys that
you can use in combination with letter keys to type letters with
accents or other diacritical marks.
Characters appear
here when you press
keys on the
keyboard or click
them in the window.
Characters
available in the
Chicago font
Characters
available in the
Chicago font when
the Option key is
pressed.
The highlighted
key represents the
key held down on
the keyboard — in
this case the
Option key.