Questions relating to letters, numbers and symbols or the Special Characters window
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Keyboard layout for math
I usually need to write math with LaTeX, and after seeing this question: Entering unicode math symbols. I came here with some small questions.
I find that not perfectly comfortable, and I was ...
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How can i change and customize the special characters on my keyboard?
This is my first post at AskDifferent, hopefully it works out.
My problem:
i want to insert the symbol "λ" aka 'lamda' everytime i use the Option-L key. However, by default my OS Mountain Lion ...
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Searching for punctuation in Preview
In Preview (v 5.3 on 10.6.8), if I search for a single letter such as k in a pdf, the program will find and highlight every instance of that letter in the pdf.
However, if I search for a punctuation ...
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How to type a TAB character on an iPhone
I'm editing a plain text file on my iPhone and need to type a TAB (\t) character. However, I am unable to find it and starting to wonder if it even exists.
Anyone able to help me out?
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I got an image on terminal from the output of homebrew package manager
I got a strange image from the output of brew like this . I'm curious about this behaviour. Is this a feature of brew or the image comes from some special character set? If a character in some ...
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Why does Google Chrome replace “fl” with blocks on all PDFs it shows, but Adobe Reader works fine?
When I open PDFs in Chrome that contain words like "files", the "fi" is replaced by a square block. Opening the same PDF in Adobe Reader or Preview works fine. Anyway to fix this?
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How to navigate the Special Characters window with the keyboard?
Is it possible to use the special characters window only with the keyboard?
i.e., I know in textedit for example you can activat the special characters window with Alt+Cmd+T. But:
How do you bring ...
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Is it possible to add a symbol to the character palette?
I guess everybody here knows about the character palette of Mac OS X.
Is it possible to create a new symbol, using an image or a vectorial shape made in Illustrator, and add it to the character ...
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Add TL Symbol to Character Viewer (Unicode 20BA) [TL simgesi]
I want to add the new 2012 Turkish Lira currency symbol, U+20BA, to Character Viewer as shown at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira_sign
What can I do?
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typing a backtick on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I have had a hunt around the net for this, but cannot find an answer - how do I type a backtick on Mac OSX Snow Leopard? I have a Macbook from late-2010.
The backtick character is one I use on a ...
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How can I type a § in a Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection window?
How can I type a "§" in a Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) window? I am using the OS X client software to connect remotely to a computer running Microsoft Windows. In OS X Option ⌥+6 produces ...
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How can I reclaim quick-keys from special characters I never use?
I love Byword.app and there's a very handy quick key (⇧-⌥-p) that, recently, started showing the uppercase Greek character pi (∏) instead.
I'm not sure what I changed, but it's very frustrating, as ...
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How to enable press-and-hold accent character menu in text editors (i.e. Xcode)?
When I press and hold a key (i.e. a) in most programs (such as a web browser, Evernote, etc.) I see the accent character pop-up menu.
However, I do not see the pop-up in Xcode or Vim, and I would ...
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OSX Lion: Long press menu automatic selection
I've recently upgraded to OSX Lion and I find the long press menu with accented characters very handy when I have to type in french. The only problem is that it's slowing me down a lot having to long ...
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How do I type the prime and double prime characters on OS X?
When typing in feet and inches, the prime ′ and double prime ″ symbols are used, e.g. 5′ 5″. How do I type these characters?
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How do I type + (plus) character on a Swedish Apple Wireless Keyboard using US keyboard layout?
I feel stupid asking this, but my thorough troubleshooting and Google searches rendered no clues…
I'm trying to get to grips with Vim (MacVim) and I've set up Keyboard Maestro to automatically switch ...
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How do I get the Unicode code of a character from the Character Viewer?
I recall that the Character Viewer showed me the Unicode value of any character I selected, but now it doesn't show it anymore.
How do I make it show the Unicode value as before?
If that makes any ...
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How to type in the tilde character '~' with an apple international keyboard?
I am a French developer, used to the French keyboard layout. Being a developer, I invested recently in an Apple international keyboard.
Having a french keyboard, typing in the tilde '~' character was ...
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Writing EOF (End of File) on Windows 7 with bootcamp
I'm looking for a way to input the EOF char into the command line on my MacBook Pro with Windows 7 running in Boot Camp.
I've tried several suggested shortcuts and the on-screen keyboard but none of ...
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Accessing certain diacritical vowel characters in the Spanish layout in Mac OS X
I need the following Portuguese characters: ã, õ.
I write in Spanish/Portuguese all the time, but I am used to the Spanish keyboard layout. I can do anything but write the mentioned characters.
I do ...
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Symbol/Special Character use in OS X and iOS
I am looking to insert a special character or symbol into my documents, which are intended to be markdown formatted text files. The symbol is intended to be used to represent a tick box or other ...
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How do I type a ² or a ³ on an Apple keyboard (International English layout)?
I use ² and ³ a lot in e-mails. When using my Belgian Windows keyboard and a custom keymap it was easy to type this in Mac OS X as I assigned the appropriate key.
Now I switched to a qwerty ...
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How can you edit the Accent Menu?
The English language doesn't really include any accented words but other languages do.
Yet I like to write using accents and diacritics, as needed in each language (Romanian, French, German, etc.).
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How does one type an “É” (capital e acute) in the French keyboard layout in Mac OS X?
I've searched the web for a method to type an "É" character with a french keyboard layout in firefox.
It appears I'm supposed to type ⌥+E, and then ⇧+E to achieve this, but as soon as I ...
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Character Picker stopped working in OS X Lion
Character picker inexplicably stopped working tonight in OS X Lion. I was trying to type in Spanish but now the keys which used to accept tildes or accents are merely repeating.
I tried entering the ...
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How to create shortcut to insert specific special character
I'm using some special characters like mathematical symbols in different programs like Mail or Adobe Illustrator. Of course I can open the Symbols Table, search for the needed symbol and ...
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View all a fonts characters app?
Is there a Mac app for viewing all the characters of a font?
Font book doesn't seem have this feature.
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Windows 7 using French AZERTY keyboard special characters problem
After a long struggle I got successfully installed Windows 7(OS in English but French Keyboard) in Lion OS X Using Boot-Camp. Followed this I have installed all the windows necessary driver software's ...
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Customising Lion’s accented letters [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion
I’m slightly disappointed by Lion’s iOS inspired feature to show a selection of accented characters on ...
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How can I quickly type special characters on an iPhone/iPad using a bluetooth keyboard?
I have an iPhone with a Bluetooth Logitech keyboard that also works with iPads. The solution works great for me in meetings etc. because it is a lightweight solution. The problem I face (and I am ...
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What happened to some of the symbols in Mac OS X Lion?
I was trying to make a mock-up for a video player on my browser and couldn't find the character for a speaker with three sound waves like you would normally see at the top of the screen for audio. ...
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How to change the order of my Favorites in the Special Characters palette?
I've added special characters that I frequently use to my favorites, but I'd like to group them more logically than simply the order in which I "favorite" them. Is this possible?
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How to show serving fonts in character table
In the upper right corner of the screen, right beside the clock, you can open the character table which opens a window with a lot of different characters, sorted by categories (currencies, arrows, ...
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What do I type to produce the command symbol (⌘) in Mac OS X?
What combination of keys do I press to produce the command symbol (⌘) on Mac OS X?
(I copied the above symbol from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key.)
