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Q: How to make keyboard do accent marks???

Ok. So I just got the Mavericks update. And now when I hold down a letter (in order to add an accent mark to it), it won't work anymore. Does anyone know how to fix this!?!? Because Apple sure doesn't. Please help

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 9, 2013 12:31 PM

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  • by lucaslsantos,

    lucaslsantos lucaslsantos Feb 4, 2014 5:45 AM in response to Joster Macedo
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    Feb 4, 2014 5:45 AM in response to Joster Macedo

    That worked for me!

    Thanks Joster!!!

  • by alexiast,

    alexiast alexiast Feb 4, 2014 6:40 AM in response to lucaslsantos
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    Feb 4, 2014 6:40 AM in response to lucaslsantos

    which one of the solutions worked for you? none are working for me... i have a MacBook Air and im running

    Software  OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)Software  OS X 10.9.1 (13B42)...

  • by lucaslsantos,

    lucaslsantos lucaslsantos Feb 4, 2014 7:28 AM in response to alexiast
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    Feb 4, 2014 7:28 AM in response to alexiast

    Go to System Preferences, Keyboard, Input Sources and choose the U.S. International - PC. I'm assuming your Macbook keyboard layout is the standard US.

     

    It worked perfectly for me.

     

    :-)

  • by alexiast,

    alexiast alexiast Feb 4, 2014 7:39 AM in response to lucaslsantos
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    Feb 4, 2014 7:39 AM in response to lucaslsantos

    Thanks for your quick reply

     

    I tried this but still no success... may i ask what your Keyboard settings are... under System Preferences >>> Keyboard - Key Repeat & Delay Until Repeat.

     

    I look forward to hearing from you...

  • by lucaslsantos,

    lucaslsantos lucaslsantos Feb 4, 2014 7:55 AM in response to alexiast
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    Feb 4, 2014 7:55 AM in response to alexiast

    You're welcome!

     

    My Keyboard settings are:

    Key Repeat: level 6

    Delay Until Repeat: level 5

     

    Good luck!

  • by Melophage,

    Melophage Melophage Feb 4, 2014 11:35 PM in response to mad_war
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    Feb 4, 2014 11:35 PM in response to mad_war

    mad_war,

     

    if you open Terminal and give it the following command, what output does it return?

     

    defaults read -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled

     

    If it’s set to “false”, then the accent mark pop-up menu has been disabled in favor of a key repeat.

  • by sharon275,

    sharon275 sharon275 Feb 8, 2014 11:20 AM in response to mad_war
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    Feb 8, 2014 11:20 AM in response to mad_war

    I'm so frustrated!  Have Mavericks 10.9.1.  None of the suggestions (eg, system preferences) work for me.  I just can't type any accent marks anymore. ( Even tried Melophage's Terminal command as well.  but got:

    defaults[402:507]

    The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, ApplePressAndHoldEnabled) does not exist  )

    I also tried restarting.

  • by sharon275,

    sharon275 sharon275 Feb 8, 2014 11:38 AM in response to sharon275
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    Feb 8, 2014 11:38 AM in response to sharon275

    Hah!  Turns out that this issue is application related; it is not an operating system issue!  Accents work (by holding down the key) in Mail and TextEdit.  BUT NOT IN OPEN OFFICE!  Problem solved.

  • by Carmeloo1,

    Carmeloo1 Carmeloo1 Mar 5, 2014 9:01 AM in response to mad_war
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    Mar 5, 2014 9:01 AM in response to mad_war

    I have just discovered the same problem, where before I could hold down a key (in any application - be it Pages, Word, Mail) & a menu of accents would pop up, & I could select a number. All of a sudden (with no changes to keyboard settings) that has vanished. I have tried to adjust keyboard settings / repeat delays etc. following the advice here, to no avail.

    Bizarre!

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Mar 5, 2014 9:53 AM in response to mad_war
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    Mar 5, 2014 9:53 AM in response to mad_war

    mad_war wrote:

     

    Well before I got the mavericks update, I only had to hold down the key I wanted an accent on by itself (like if i wanted an a with an accent on it I would hold the a key down) and then a list would appear with all of the different accent options and you would pick one. And now it doesn't do that.

    That still works fine for me

     

    Screen Shot 2014-03-05 at 17.52.44.png

    10.9.2

  • by 利辺羅,

    利辺羅 利辺羅 Mar 10, 2014 5:50 PM in response to mad_war
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    Mar 10, 2014 5:50 PM in response to mad_war

    My problem was that I was trying to do it with the Japanese Romaji keyboard (to enter non-Japanese characters).

     

    Now I remember that that keyboard had also bugs I reported before to Apple. The accents even show up in the keyboard viewer but won't work (e.g. é, ñ).

     

    As for the long press, I wasn't aware of, thanks!

  • by oneyawonly,

    oneyawonly oneyawonly Mar 24, 2014 6:03 AM in response to mad_war
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    Mar 24, 2014 6:03 AM in response to mad_war

    I have OSX 10.9.2 - I have tried all that has been suggested here and my accents are still non-existent in every program - Mail, iCloud, Office...

     

    Any suggestions?

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Mar 24, 2014 6:41 AM in response to oneyawonly
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    Mar 24, 2014 6:41 AM in response to oneyawonly

    Set your keyboard to US or UK British

  • by oneyawonly,

    oneyawonly oneyawonly Mar 24, 2014 6:57 AM in response to Csound1
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    Mar 24, 2014 6:57 AM in response to Csound1

    My keyboard was set to US, which did not work and I changed it to British to no avail.  I have tried adjusting my type settings and the keuboard language between english and portuguese.

     

    It seems this change took place after restarting my computer - I assume an update was waiting for a restart to be initialized.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Mar 24, 2014 7:12 AM in response to oneyawonly
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    Mar 24, 2014 7:12 AM in response to oneyawonly

    Your setup is the same as mine, 10.9.2, US Standard Keyboard, accents work for me by holding the key down.

     

    Reboot into Safe Mode and try again.

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