Swiss French Keyboard - Special Characters

arachanox wrote:

I don't seem to be able to type them in uppercase either (I always get ´A).

The answer was provided 2 years ago -- Just hold down option/alt + shift with keyboard viewer active and you will see how to make them:

You can see which key does what on any keyboard layout by using Keyboard Viewer. You activate this by checking its box in system prefs/language & text/input sources, plus the box for Show Input Menu in MenuBar, and then selecting Keyboard Viewer in the "flag" menu at the top right of your screen.

I think the ones you want are made via Option/alt + shift.

fyleren wrote:

However, although I see the whole character list, I can't see which key combination I have to type in order to write those special characters. Any ideas?

It sounds like you are looking at Character Viewer. You need to choose KEYBOARD Viewer from the "flag" menu. Once you have that, hold down Option/alt + Shift.

It works the same way as in Windows: Activate Caps lock, then press Shift plus any of the ü ! ö ä keys to produce ÉÀÈ.

You can also create this punctuation by using the dead keys: For example, hit the ^ key and then Shift + A to produce Â, or shift + the ^ key, then I to produce Ì.

I can't figure out where the dead key for the ` pointing right is though (on Windows, it's on the ? key with shift pressed...).

After rereading your post, I notice that unfortunately I could only help you with keys that you don't need.

BUT I just figured out how to make the ´ - dead key: Press alt (Option) plus the ^ key, then the letter (optionally with shift pressed) to produce e.g. á, í, ú.

However I see you also got that far. I don't seem to be able to type them in uppercase either (I always get ´A).

Oh, well, I can only produce É, not the others.

Maybe you need to manually remap some keys (I don't know how) or switch your input keyboard to a Portuguese one...