Special letters

You can press control+command+spacebar, and in the Character viewer search field, enter the letter 'o' or 'u' and in the related characters sidebar, you will find the ő or ű characters.

Even with the Magyar language added to System Preferences : Language & Region panel's Preferred Languages, pressing and holding these letters did not present the requested character alternatives. I am using an U.S. English installation with a U.S. English keyboard, Big Sur 11.1 and Pages v10.3.5.

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sproget Author

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Dec 21, 2020 11:15 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thank you both, VikingOSX and Tom Gewecke. You solved my question.

control+command+spacebar: First, I look for the double acutes here in vain. However, following your advice using the search field for letters o and u, the acutes appeared. Nice! This will be my preferred method when I only need one or two magyar acute-letters in a text elsewise in Danish, primarily.

Pressing the letters: Yes, this does not work, I tried this before and was surprised, as many other other letter variants were exposed.

ABC Extended Keyboard: Does not work for me. Perhaps because I am using Danish keyboard.

Hungarien Keyboard: Yes, this works. This will be my preferred method when writing a real text.

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sproget Author

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Dec 21, 2020 11:15 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thank you both, VikingOSX and Tom Gewecke. You solved my question.

control+command+spacebar: First, I look for the double acutes here in vain. However, following your advice using the search field for letters o and u, the acutes appeared. Nice! This will be my preferred method when I only need one or two magyar acute-letters in a text elsewise in Danish, primarily.

Pressing the letters: Yes, this does not work, I tried this before and was surprised, as many other other letter variants were exposed.

ABC Extended Keyboard: Does not work for me. Perhaps because I am using Danish keyboard.

Hungarien Keyboard: Yes, this works. This will be my preferred method when writing a real text.

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Answer 5

Tom Gewecke

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Dec 21, 2020 11:20 AM in response to sproget

sproget wrote: ABC Extended Keyboard: Does not work for me. Perhaps because I am using Danish keyboard.

Hardware doesn't matter . I you see ABC Extended in the top right corner of your screen in the input menu, and you press option j, let go, and then press o, you have to get ő.

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Answer 6

Dec 22, 2020 6:37 AM in response to sproget

Can you not just hold down the 'o' and 'u' keys until you get the option you require, as is the case in iOs? On my keyboard the double acute is the second option. So, type 'o', hold the key and then type the number '2'. If you are doing the bulk of your work in Hungarian then using the Hungarian keyboard choice is of course the best option.

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Tom Gewecke

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Dec 22, 2020 6:52 AM in response to Frequentlywrong

Frequentlywrong wrote: Can you not just hold down the 'o' and 'u' keys until you get the option you require, as is the case in iOs? On my keyboard the double acute is the second option. So, type 'o', hold the key and then type the number '2'.

No, that is not the double acute. It is the double dot, diaeresis or umlaut, which is different. Increase your font size to see this more clearly.

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Answer 8

Dec 22, 2020 10:59 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Right you are Tom. Clean my glasses.

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