Clicking to Choose Foreign Characters
Another way to add special characters to text is to view a list of characters and click the one you want. If you need to type characters in a language based on the Roman alphabet (such as French, Spanish, or Italian), for example, you need to display and use the Character Viewer.
Adding the Character Viewer to the Language & Text Menulet
To make the Character Viewer visible, you first enable it so that it appears on the Language & Text menulet on the right side of the menu bar by doing this:
Click the Apple menu and select System Preferences. A System Preferences window appears.
Click the Language & Text icon under the Personal category. The Language & Text window appears.
Click the Input Sources tab.
Select the ...
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