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The type accented characters just stop working on my Macbook help!

The type accented characters just stop working on my Macbook help!

I need accented characters to write in Italian from my American computer.

I didn't change any settings, it just stopped working, now when I press and hold one letter I just have this: eeeeeeeee (instead of options for accents!)

Help.

MacBook

Posted on Jan 14, 2020 9:28 AM

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Posted on Jan 14, 2020 12:22 PM

While you are waiting for a fix for those popup menus, you can use the standard option key shortcuts for your accents:


https://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/mac/codemac/

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