Character viewer does not insert with double click, drag and drop works. How can I fix?

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Character viewer does not insert with double click, drag and drop works. How can I fix?

I cannot insert special characters from character viewer such as accented vowels with a single or double click but dragging and dropping works. Any suggestions? Merci.

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Jan 23, 2014 6:51 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 23, 2014 7:50 AM in response to JiPi1212

I don't know a fix for that, but lots of accented vowels can be input by just holding down the key for the base letter and selecting from the popup menu that appears. This is easier than using Character Viewer if the ones you need are available that way.

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JiPi1212 Author

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Jan 23, 2014 9:52 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Hi Tom,

Resolved!!

I forgot to mention that the pop-up menus were not there either...so I tried the old cure-all....restart. All is well. Thanks for taking the time. JP

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Feb 27, 2015 5:54 AM in response to JiPi1212

I had this problem too and it turned out to be caused by setting the maximum doubleclick in System Prefs > Accessibility > Trackpad. If yours is set to the max, try slowing it a little. That solved this problem for me.

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