Typing special characters and symbols
You can type a variety of international and other special symbols and characters (including characters with diacritical marks, such as accents) by pressing combinations of keys.
The Key Caps program, which is installed with your system software, shows you the characters produced when you type certain keys and key combinations in the fonts available on your computer. Choose Key Caps from the Apple (K) menu, then choose the font from the Key Caps menu.
Characters available in the Chicago font
Characters appear here when you press keys on the keyboard or click them in
the window.
To have Key Caps show more options for special characters, press each of these keys or key combinations: Option, Shift,
Characters available in the Chicago font when the Option key is pressed
The highlighted key represents the key held down on the keyboard— in this case, the Option key.
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