Use of Portuguese special characters

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Use of Portuguese special characters

During many years I was a Microsoft (Intel) user, but right know I’m trying to convert myself in a Mac user, so recently I bought an iBook G4. I am facing a difficult to use Portuguese especial characters like: ç, é, ó, etc. There is no problem of keyboard layout because the Brazilian flag has been showed in the top of the screen. Also, when I use the Word Editor (Mac Office) the auto-corrector works properly and corrects automatically the text. So, the question is: How I can write Brazilian texts properly in this machine?

iBookG4, Mac OS X (10.4.2), Office Mac

Posted on May 16, 2006 8:20 PM

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Answer 1

JP Ellery

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May 28, 2006 11:54 AM in response to DrMonkey

Hey, Doc. What's up? 🙂

Para deixar seu iBook com o teclado em padrão brasileiro, você precisa do layout de teclado US International. Você pode baixá-lo aqui ( http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13003).

Depois, é só arrastar para usuário>biblioteca>layout de teclado

English

To make your iBook keyboard work in brazilian portuguese, you need the US International Keyboad Layout. You can get it clicking the link mentioned above.
After you download it, just drag it to user>library>keyboard layouts

Espero que isso ajude e, muito bem vindo ao Mundo Mac.

Cheers,

JP

BTW, se esse post resolveu sua questão, clique em questão respondida pra ajudar o conterrâneo aqui com uns pontinhos. 😉

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Answer 2

May 16, 2006 11:03 PM in response to DrMonkey

Are you using a Portuguese keyboard (with Portuguese layout)?

A quick hint is to hold down option key while typing. Try to open System Preferences > International > Input Menu, and select "Keyboard Viewer".
Then from the flag, select "Show Keyboard Viewer", and hold down Option key, and you should see the way to type those accented characters.

If you are using a Portuguese keyboard, there's a special key for ç if I remember correctly. (I don't speak Portuguese.)

Just for reference, in (US) English keyboard,
Letter with a specific diacritical mark.
Grave accent (`): option + `, then the letter
Acute accent (´): option + e, then the letter
Circumflex accent (ˆ): option + i, then the letter
Tilde accent (˜): option + n, then the letter
Umlaut accent (¨): option + u, then the letter
The letter “c” with a cedilla (ç): option + c.

Hope this helps.

G4 dual 1.42, 2GB ram, PB 12 1.33, 1.25GB ram Mac OS X (10.4.6) AirPort Express, iSight, Mighty Mouse

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