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I have a Macbook Air. Running El Capitan with British keyboard layout. I have enabled Chines Simplified Pinyin input. I am trying to type the tone marks. For example, pressing opt+a followed by u is supposed to produce ū. This doesn't work however. Any advice?

I have seen mentions of US Extended Keyboard or ABC extended keyboard layout as being the culprit. While this makes 0 sense to me, I have replaced the British layout with this ABC Extended one. While now I can type the accented characters in it, they still don't work in Pinyin. This is extremely annoying.

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  • I thought I had this problem too to begin with but suddenly it just started working, after I played around with the keys for a while. I'm not sure what suddenly changed. – H Hawkins Apr 7 '18 at 20:23
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If your purpose is to type Latin script pinyin, then ABC Extended is the right keyboard. Chinese Pinyin input is only for Chinese script and does not use tone marks.

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