

(Thanks to Mac OS X Hints readers pietervw and roo.bookaroo for this hint. keyboards, from both Apple and third-party vendors, and haven’t encountered any issues, but that won’t be the case for every keyboard. I’ve been using it with several standard U.S. International – PC keyboard layout could change the location of some keys. One caveat: Depending on which keyboard you have connected to your Mac, using the U.S. Rainer also has older versions of the keyboard layout for OS X 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3.) Just copy the downloaded file into /Library/Keyboards and then log out and back in. (Note that if you’re running Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.4, you can download Rainer Brockerhoff’s USInternational keyboard layout to get similar functionality. The Mac is capable of using a much larger list of characters than mobile devices. However, it's a bit of a hidden feature on macOS. The space disables that particular automatic replacement-the space character won’t even appear-and you can then type any character you want. Apple makes it relatively easy to use emoji, arrows, stars, bullets, various currency symbols, and other special characters in chats, social media, and documents of all types.
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What do you do if you need to type, say, an apostrophe followed by a vowel, as in “A better idea…? Just immediately follow the punctuation character with a space for example, ‘. ˜ = ~ (tilde) and then a letter for example, ~n gives you ñ.ˆ = ^ (caret) and then a letter for example, ^a gives you â.¨ = ” (quotation mark) and then a letter for example, “u gives you ü.` = ` (grave accent, or tick mark) and then a letter for example `o gives you ò.´ = ‘ (apostrophe) and then a letter for example, ‘e gives you é.
