Questions relating to letters, numbers and symbols or the Special Characters window
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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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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.)
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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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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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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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