Macintosh Accent Codes

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LetterswithAccents
ThislistisorganizedbyAccent Accenttype.Thesampleshowsaletterwiththataccent,andthe Notes Notespresentanyspecialcommentsaboutusingthataccent. FortheTemplate,thesymbol "V" means any vowel. symbol vowel.Theformatistoholdthefirsttwo keysdownsimultaneously,release,thentypethevowelyouwishtobeaccented. ACCENT Acute SAMPLE TEMPLATE Option+E,V NOTES

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Circumflex

Option+I, V

Grave

Option+`,V

Onlyworkswith "n,N,o,O,a,A n,N,o,O,a,A"

Tilde

Option+N, V

Umlaut

Option+U, V

Example 1 1:Toinputtheletter, ,holddowntheOption Optionkey,thentheE key.Release E bothkeysthentypelowercaseo . o Example 2: 2:Toinputtheletter, ,holddowntheOption Optionkey,thentheE key.Release E bothkeysthentypecapitalO . O

Other Accent Marks

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OtherForeignCharacters
Toinsertthesecharacters,presstheOption Optionkey(bottomofkeyboard)thenother"code" keytomakethesymbolappear. SYMBOL NAME Upside-downexclamationmark Option+1 CODE

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Upside-downquestionmark

Shift+Option+?

FrenchCcedille (caps/lowecase)

Shift+Option+C Option+C

OEligature(caps/lowecase)

Shift+Option+Q Option+Q

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, , ,

GermanShapr/DoubleS

Option+S

NordicOslash (caps/lowecase)

Shift+Option+O Option+O

NordicAring(caps/lowecase)

Shift+Option+A Option+A

AEligature(caps/lowecase)

Shift+Option+' (apostrophe key) Option+'

Spanish/Frenchquotation marks

Option+\ Shift+Option+\

Example 1: 1:ToinputFrench (Option+C Option+C),holddowntheOption, Option, thentheC key.The C willappear. Example 2: 2:ToinputFrench (Shift+Option+C Shift+Option+C),holddowntheShift Shiftkey,thenthe Option key,thentheC key.The willappear. C

Other Characters
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CurrencySymbols
Toinsertthesecharacters,presstheOption Optionkey(bottomofkeyboard)thenother"code" keytomakethesymbolappear. SYMBOL NAME Centsign CODE Option+4

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BritishPound

Option+3

JapaneseYen

Option+Y Shift+Option+2 Maynotbeinolderfonts. Option+F

EuroSign.

DutchFlorin

Other Symbols
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MathSymbols
Toinsertthesecharacters,presstheOption Optionkey(bottomofkeyboard)thenother"code" keytomakethesymbolappear. SYMBOL NAME Divisionsign CODE Option+/

Plus/minussign

Shift+Option+=

Thedegreesymbol

Shift+Option+8

"not"symbol Greaterthanorequal to Lesserthanorequalto

Option+L

Option+>

Option+<

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squarerootradicalsign

Option+V

Pisymbol

Option+P

Infinitysymbol

Option+5

Approximately

Option+X

Delta/Difference

Option+J

SumSign

Option+W

ProductPiSymbol

Shift+Option+P

Ohmsign

Option+Z

Micro

Option+M

PartialDerivative

Option+D

IntegralSign

Option+B

PerMil(1/1000)Sign

Shift+Option+R

Other Symbols
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OtherPunctuation

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Toinsertthesecharacters,presstheOption Optionkey(bottomofkeyboard)thenother"code" keytomakethesymbolappear. SYMBOL NAME Copyrightsymbol Option+G CODE

Other Symbols

Registered

Option+R

Trademark

Option+2

ParagraphSymbol

Option+7

Dot

Option+8

SectionSymbol en-dash.Option,thenminus sign em-dash

Option+6

Option+ -

Shift+Option+-

Dagger

Option+T

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