Apple 6400 appendix Typing special characters and symbols

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, Shift-Option, Shift-x, and Option-x.

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.

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.

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