Does any one know the key comand for ŏ

I'm afraid there isn't one. You'll have to use a character map to choose it.

Use the US Extended keyboard.

Then, option-b, o

ŏ

option-b, shift O

Ŏ

Sure you do.

System Preferences > Language & Text.

🙂

Thanks for the tip, John. I didn't know the extended keyboard also increased the number of option characters you could type. Doesn't help that my current preferred character map app doesn't show any keyboard shortcut for those.

I get this ∫ø

That's because you're still on the standard U.S. keyboard layout. Once you've checked the box in the System Preferences, you need to choose it in the upper right of the menu bar.

It may not work for older, non Unicode fonts. Or fonts which are Unicode, but don't have Unicode code points assigned to all characters.

Works for me; ŏ

System Preferences > Language and Text > Input Sources tab. Top of the left column, tick (check) "Keyboard and Character Viewer",

Bottom of window next to search field, tick "Show input menu in menu bar"

System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard tab; tick "show keyboard and character viewers in menu bar"

Then select the US extended layout as shown by John's screenshot.

Now go to the menu bar and click on the US flag; select "show keyboard viewer"

Place your cursor at the point you wish to insert the ŏ

Go back to the flag dropdown and select the extended keyboard - the name in the viewer will change.

type b with the opt (alt) key held down, release both keys and type o = ŏ

If you wish to use it a lot keep the extended layout and uncheck the normal US layout in Input Sources.

If you hold down the opt key with the viewer open it will show you all the available symbols and diacritics, likewise shift-opt will show more (mostly the upper case versions)

Keys highlighted in orange are accent marks that can be used with multiple letters - use the same technique as you did for ŏ

A lot of the issue with older fonts is that Unicode moved things around. The ŏ character may be in the font, but it's not in the ordinal position Unicode expects it to be. So you either get a different character, or nothing.

You can still use it, though you have to go to the Character Viewer. Change the View type at the top left to Glyph. You'll then have the option to choose a specific font and style. All characters for that font will be shown whether they have code points or not. The nuisance then is finding the character. 🙂

703aunt wrote:

I tryed this on my laptop and it did not work.????

Works the same on my MacBŏŏk... what font are you using?