In the Reply to this post below, please tell us about your experience with this or other computer finds that excite you. Typing other characters on a Mac. Similarly, circumflex is Option + I, grave accent is Option + backquote, tilde is Option + N, and umlaut is Option + U. Just like the Keyboard Viewer, the Character Viewer can be accessed via the top menu bar when the Input menu has been enabled. There is tons of other stuff in there though, lets check it out. Apple dropped Key Caps in Mac OS X 10.2. You can get an acute accent by typing Option + E and then the letter. Character ViewerYou activate the Character Viewer in your System Keyboard Preferences:While in Keyboard Preferences This checkbox will show/hide the Viewer on the menu bar at the top right corner of your desktop. Apple still ships the Keyboard Viewer as part of OS X, but without Key Caps, there is not a simple method of invoking it. In my OS X travels I use the Character Viewer occasionally to insert various graphical characters in documents.
However, where I use it most is doing blog articles on Macessence, especially the Technical Symbols. Now whenever you find yourself wanting a special character, you can just quickly go to the input menu and choose “Show Character Viewer.” Every single character that your Mac is able to produce is available in this window, including punctuation, mathematical symbols and other alphabets.
If you would like to use the OS X character viewer, it can be accessed in a few different ways: The Character Viewer palette allows you to access numerous unicode characters. For other users, it is often easier to search using the character viewer or create shortcuts for commonly-used symbols. The Mac OS also uses more complex keystroke combinations to access accented characters. Character Map Character Viewer HowTo Mac Special Characters. Choose Show Character Viewer from the drop-down menu, which opens Character Viewer as shown below. If you have a Mac and, like I, were unaware of “Character Viewer”, you now countless possibilities for finding new and simple ways to add graphic details to images and documents. Ensure “Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar” is checked. As with Windows' Character Map, any characters you select in Keyboard Viewer can be copied into your documents. The Character Viewer gives access to every glyph available on your system. Often those in technical or linguistic professions need to enter specific Unicode characters while typing. One way to do this is to find the character of your choice in the Keyboard Viewer, as described above. The Character Viewer can invoked from the same menu as the input methods (“keyboards”), but you need to tell the computer once that you want the Character Viewer there. You can type characters using their specific 4- or 8-digit codes by using a special keyboard built into your Mac.
You may recall the Character Viewer - a tool which you could expand to find various characters to be added to text documents. HowTo: Display Mac Character Viewer. You can also use the popular TextExpander application for Mac OS X ($34.95 from Smile Software) to create shortcut snippets that you can type to display a character…