Brazilian Portuguese Keyboard

PS A 5th way

E) Buy a Brazilian ABNT2 hardware keyboard and connect it to your MacBook. The special keyboard layout software required can be downloaded from

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46870715/k/winbrazabnt12.keylayout

What is it that you want exactly? The special characters required for Portuguese can be made just fine with the layout called US, or the layout called Brazilian, or the layout called US International PC, or the layout called Portuguese. You choose the one you want to use via system preferences/language & text/input sources.

Do you need instructions about how to make the characters with one of these? Or do you already know which key you want to do what and just need the keyboard to obey that?

Here are instructions for the 4 most common ways that people type Portuguese. All them them can make all of the characters. It's is up to you to decide which one you want to use.

A) With the US flag showing at the top right of the screen: hold down the key for the base letter and select the accented version you want from the popup menu which appears.

B) With the Brazilian flag or the US flag showing at the top right of the screen: Use the keyboard shortcuts provided on this page:

http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/bylanguage/portuguese.html#macaccent

C) With the US flag that has the PC underneath it at the top right of the screen: Use the shortcuts provided by this page:

http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codeint.html

D) With the Portuguese flag at the top right of the screen: Use Keyboard Viewer to see which key does what or use this chart. The orange keys are for accents -- you type them first and then type the vowel.

Just ask again if in one of these methods there is some character you need to make but cannot.