Type Accented Letters with Accent Codes in Mac OS X

Nov 11, 2009 - 6 Comments

Grave, tilde, acute, circumflex, umlaut… all the fun accent codes that you might need to use. So if you need to type an accented letter in Mac OS X, here’s how.

To get this type of accent over a letter, type this command followed by the letter you want accented:

accent letters mac

à – option+`
â – option+i
á – option+e
ä – option+u
ã – option+n

I just used the letter A as an example but you can insert accents over letter. Now my sister in Spanish class can stop pulling her hair out. Buena suerte Trish!

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Posted by: William Pearson in How to, Mac OS X

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  1. Matteo Corti says:

    There an extensive list of other language specific characters that you can directly type with a key combination on Mac OS X.

    Here a list: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codemac.html

    Matteo

  2. türküler says:

    Thank you admin, My Beatiful web site.

  3. [...] installed. This is a lot easier than trying to memorize some of the more obscure key commands for typing accented letters and the Apple logo [...]

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