Nordic ring (A with a circle on top) in Mac Monterey 12

Weird. OK, System Preferences > Keyboard...Click the Show Keyboard and Character Viewer (or Emoji Viewer, depending on OS version) in menu bar.

The in the menu bar select the Character Viewer. In the sidebar, select Latin and all your diacritic variants are there.

Option-a gives me å.

Not sure if that is specific for my keyboard or keyboards settings or language settings (all non-Norwegian), but I don’t think so. [MacBook Pro]

The Keyboard Viewer allows showing these key combinations, from being dynamic to the modifier keys, like a cheat sheet before you know the important ones by heart.

(This doesn’t show fully for extended combinations, like {option-e, then e, to give é} or {option-u, then u, to give ü}. But that’s a different learning curve. It gives hints with the orange outlines though.)

Andreamargaretgray wrote:

I can't get any pop-ups

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the keyboard is on ABC Extended

On ABC Extended, å is made via option k then a. If you want it on opton a, you need to use US or ABC.

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When keys have variant letters, I believe if you press and hold the key (a in your case) you get a pop-up with all the variants numbered (a with a Nordic ring is variant 7 I believe) and you can enter it by then pressing the number key.

i.e., press and hold 'a' until the pop-up appears, then while still holding the 'a' press '7'.

Urquhart1244 wrote:

Option-a gives me å. Not sure if that is specific for my keyboard or keyboards settings

It is definitely specific to your keyboard/input source settings, and does not work for ABC Extended, Danish, French, Latin American and probably many others.

Andreamargaretgray wrote:

I can't get any pop-ups oddly, and therefore no ability to choose!

That pop-up display is something ported from the iPhone. It's not reliable. I've seen many people report that it stops working randomly.

I'm have Norsk Bokmal added to Languages but English is primary language, and the keyboard is on ABC Extended which enables the ø and æ to work and does not affect other keys (which happens when the keyboard is switched to Norsk and makes normal writing in English very unwieldy!)

If you are going to state that "English in primary" and "normal writing in English", then you should really be using the default keyboard. This keyboard is designed for English and has hotkey support for virtually all other European languages.

You can try Tom Gewecke's suggestion to fix the pop-up keyboard. But personally, I find that method slower than just using the hotkeys. I understand that some people are extremely attached to that pop-up and seem to get very angry when I suggest an alternative method.

How bout a workaround, Text replacement...

å Å

Great, any idea what cured it?

Thanks for your insights.