June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
39h 58m
English
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Appendix A. Special Characters
Included with Mac OS X is the Keyboard Viewer application, which is a keyboard widget that allows you to see which character would be created by applying the Shift, Option, or Shift-Option keys to any key on the keyboard. To enable Keyboard Viewer, go to System Preferences→International→Input Menu and select the checkbox next to Keyboard Viewer. The Input menu will appear in the menu bar; to launch the Keyboard Viewer, simple select this item from the Input menu.
While this might seem useful, it can be a hassle to launch another
application just to create one character, and copy and paste it into
another program. Fortunately, one of the most little-known/-used
features of the Mac OS is its ability to give you the same
functionality within any application—making Keyboard Viewer
unnecessary if you know what you’re doing. Table A-1
lists these special characters. Keep in mind that this
doesn’t work for all font types, and some
fonts—such as Symbol, Wingdings, and Zapf Dingbats—create
an entirely different set of characters or symbols. For example, to
create the symbol for the Command key (
), you would
need to switch the font to Wingdings and type a lowercase
z.
Table A-1. Special characters and their key mappings
|
Normal |
Shift |
Option |
Shift-Option |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
! |
¡ |
/ |
|
2 |
@ |
™ | |
|
3 |
# |
£ |
|
|
4 |
$ |
¢ |
|
|
5 |
% | ∞ |
fi |
|
6 |
^ |
§ |
fl |
|
7 |
& |
¶ |
‡ |
|
8 |
* |
· |
° |
|
9 |
( |
ª |
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