How can I enter in the enter in the Apple symbol () in an application such as text edit?
IIRC, Safari automatically converts this symbol when it sees the text &apple;.
Update: Does it exist in the Edit > Special Characters... list?
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1Related: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/4074/…– user588Feb 11, 2011 at 20:08
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2It's worth noting that this symbol is non-standard; it will be interpreted differently by different fonts.– Antal Spector-ZabuskyFeb 12, 2011 at 5:02
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Windows machines normally will not have any fonts that display his character, only Apple products.– Tom GeweckeJan 20, 2012 at 12:59
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Neil's ⇧ + ⌥ + K might work in (presumably) the US, but the exact combination is keyboard layout specific. In addition, some keyboard layouts — Thai, for example — might not even have the symbol available.
E.g. I'm using a Finnish keyboard layout and is typed simply by ⌥ + A.
To find this and other symbol shortcuts, you can enable the keyboard & symbol menulet from Preferences → Keyboard and use the menulet to open a virtual keyboard. Pressing any modifier key, or modifier key combination, will change the keys on the virtual keyboard accordingly. For example, here is how the virtual keyboard looks with Finnish layout while option/alt is being pressed:
To find the from Special characters menu the fastest way is to type f8ff to the search box (this is its unicode-code; the hasn't any other name assigned).
Other way is to change the view to glyphs or to code tables[1] from the drop-down list and browse the for the symbol manually — but this is not exactly user-friendly or fast, unless you know where to look for.
[1]: I don't know for sure if these are exact translations as my UI is also in Finnish. However, the items are (respectively) last and third-last in the list.
answered Feb 11, 2011 at 20:53
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Is there any way to find out how to type the symbol given a specific keyboard layout? I'm using a custom layout which I created and noticed that Shift-Option-K only works if I switch back to the US layout. Thus, it would be useful if there was an easy way to figure out which keyboard shortcut I need to use on my custom layout.– SensefulFeb 11, 2011 at 22:05
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@Senseful if you've enabled the
Keyboard & symbolmenulet fromPreferences->Keyboardyou can use it to open a virtual keyboard. While pressing any modifier keys the pictured virtual keyboard will change accordingly. Feb 11, 2011 at 22:13 -
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1Please note that not all keyboard layouts have the symbol. For example, Thai layout does not.– ocodoFeb 13, 2011 at 1:21
⇧+⌥+K will type the Apple logo.
answered Feb 11, 2011 at 19:19
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Thanks for the quick answer, do you know if it exists in Edit > Special Characters?– SensefulFeb 11, 2011 at 19:23
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4It's actually not in Unicode. It's just a Private Use Area character (F8FF) in some of Apple's fonts, like Lucida Grande and Monaco. Some Linux fonts have a Tux on that same code point.– LriFeb 28, 2011 at 1:20