Do not fret if you run into one of these exotic characters.
Today’s Stupid Simple Mac Tips will show how you can type these characters on a Mac through various keyboard combinations and other tricks.
How to do Accents
One feature on a Mac allows you to streamline the character accessing process in your document without needing to manually insert them through a multitude of menus.
Start by holding down the relevant character key that requires an accent. From there, a small menu will appear for the letter. It will indicate what to press to enter a special character.
A common example is creating the é character by holding down the E-key while pressing the 2-key to insert a given character.
Conversely, you can click your desired character or cycle through options with the arrow keys.
You can also use the return key to choose a character.
Some special characters are not available through the long-press method. For these instances, OS X provides the Keyboard and Character Viewers that allow you to choose and insert individual special characters.
Accessing either of these two viewers necessitates your enabling of the ‘Menu bar’ shortcut:
Do so by clicking on the Apple menu in the menu bar.
Lastly, navigate to ‘System Preferences’> ‘Keyboard> ‘Input Sources’ before selecting the ‘Show Input Menu in Menu Bar’ Viewer tick-box. Now you are able to access “Emoji and Symbols” using the Menu Bar! (Edit>Emoji and Symbols)
Now, these exotic characters do not seem so complicated, do they?