Apple 2300 Series Grave accent ` Acute accent ´ Circumflex Tilde ~ Umlaut ¨, Diacritical mark

If you press the Option key, Key Caps outlines lightly the keys that you can use in combination with letter keys to type letters with accents or other diacritical marks.

If you see rectangles: If you see rectangles instead of diacritical marks on some of the pictures of keys in Key Caps, try pressing Option-xto see the diacritical marks. However, you only need to use the Option key (not Option-x) in combination with the other keys to type letters with diacritical marks.

If you press the Option key at the same time as a key for a specific diacritical mark and then release both keys, Key Caps outlines in bold the keys for letters that can be typed with that mark. (You’ll see that most key combinations for diacritical marks can be used with the Space bar as well as letter keys—producing the mark without a letter.)

The most common diacritical marks and how to create them are summarized next.

Diacritical mark

Grave accent ( ` )

Acute accent ( ´ )

Circumflex (^)

Tilde (~)

Umlaut ( ¨ )

The letter “c” with a cedilla (ç)

Key combination

Option-`, then type the character Option-e, then type the character Option-i, then type the character Option-n, then type the character Option-u, then type the character Option-c

mTo type a letter or a space with a specific diacritical mark, press the Option key and the key for the mark simultaneously. Then type the letter that needs the mark.

If you are having trouble getting a mark and letter to appear together, try again. Be sure to press the Option key before (or at the same time as) the key for the mark; then, after you release both keys, type the letter to be marked.

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