keyboard characters : "character map" equivalent ?

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keyboard characters : "character map" equivalent ?

I have a localized Mac keyboard which doesn't have certain charachters, such as square brackets and the ~ (tilde) symbol.

On a windows machine I can use the character map to get to certain symbols, is there any equivalent in Leopard ?

Thanks, Tom.

Lotsa different Macs, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Jan 27, 2008 11:31 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 27, 2008 11:34 AM in response to Tom Robbrecht

Ok, I just happened to find this out by chance. Honestly.
cmd-option-T = special characters menu.

T.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 27, 2008 11:42 AM in response to Tom Robbrecht

I have a localized Mac keyboard which doesn't have certain charachters, such as square brackets and the ~ (tilde) symbol.

They are no doubt there somewhere, accessible via the Option or Option + Shift modifiers. To see where, you use Keyboard Viewer, which you activate by going to system prefs/international/input menu and checking its box (plus the box for "show input menu in Finder") and then selecting it from the "flag" menu at the top right of the Finder.

In the Belgian layout, [] are at Option + Shift () and tilde is at Option + n.

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