Multilingual computing

Information about typing accented letters and other special characters.


Accents & special characters - Mac O/S

On a Mac you can use the key combinations listed below to type accented letters and other symbols.

How it works:

To type a lower case letter with an acute accent on it (á é í ó ú)

To type a upper case letter with an acute accent on it (Á É Í Ó Ú)

How to type accented letters

How to type other special characters

Links

Information about typing accents and other symbols
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/dia/diacritics-revised.htm
https://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/
https://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm
https://slcr.wsu.edu/help-pages/keyboards-osx/

Character finder - a site where you can find out which accented letters or other characters are used in which language(s), and other useful information about characters, fonts and unicode: http://transliteration.eki.ee/

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