Note: This tool may also be available in the menus of some text editors as Emoji and Symbols.

In the upper right of your desktop, click the flag icon to open the list of activated keyboards and select Show Character Viewer.

Note: In El Capitan, this is called Symbols & Emoji. In the Keyboard window, check the option Show Keyboard and Character Viewers in menu bar at the bottom of the window.Go to the Apple menu and open Systems Preferences.

Use Option+K,A if you need A-ring.El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks Activate Viewer

Latin long mark, plus long Y (Ȳ) and long ash (Ǣ). Use Option+E for acute Y and Option+U for umlaut Y Extended keyboard (10.3) and use these additional accent codes. If you are working with a Unicode aware application such as Microsoft Office 2004, Text Edit (free with OS X ), Nisus Express, Dreamweaver or Netscape 7 Composer /Mozilla Composer you can activate the Extended Roman keyboard (10.2) or the U.S. To insert these characters, press the Option key (bottom of keyboard) then other 'code' key to make the symbol appear. Release all three keys then type capital O (Shift + o). Release both keys then type lowercase o.Įxample 2: To input the letter Ó, hold down the Option key, then the E key. The format is to hold the first two keys down simultaneously, release, then type the vowel you wish to be accented.Įxample 1: To input the letter ó, hold down the Option key, then the E key. The sample shows a letter with that accent, and the Notes present any special comments about using that accent.įor the Template, the symbol 'V' means any vowel. These tables show select codes only, not all possible codes. This page list codes for accented letters and other characters.

Math symbols on mac keyboard