The modest discoveries of a recent Mac switcher. For my own records, and to help anyone interested!

Friday, 1 May 2009

é è à ú extended latin characters

Problem: Let's say you're French (or Spanish) and using a British Mac keyboard. How to type accented characters such as é, è, à, ú ?

Solution:
The idea is to press a key combination (using alt-) for the accent, followed (after releasing the first key combo) by the key of the letter.
  • Acute accent: alt+e then the letter
  • Grave accent: alt+` then the letter
  • Circumflex accent: alt+i then the letter

Example: to type 'é', type alt+e,. then e. It's that easy :-)

More details here:
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?p=5258595#post5258595

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