Pull down that menu Unicode Hex Input will now be one of the choices. Now, return to the application you're interested in, and look at the right end of the menu bar for a flag. Near the bottom of the (long) scrolling list, place a check next to Unicode Hex Input, and at the bottom right, make sure there's a check next to “Show Input menu in menu bar.” Close the System Preferences window. Then choose Input Sources… to access the preferences for Language & Text. Make sure there’s a check in the box to the left of “Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar”: This will display a flag (or flag-like) icon near the right-hand end of your menubar.
Under the Apple menu (at the left of the menu bar), choose System Preferences…, then choose Keyboard. First, make sure that Unicode Hex Input is enabled. The Unicode Hex Input method allows keying such a code directly. Perhaps you know the Unicode code point for a particular character, such as U+03B1 for Greek lowercase alpha (α). The immediately following keystroke (typically a vowel) produces an accented letter (providing the particular letter keyed is capable of taking the particular accent). or Canadian English situation, holding option down while tapping certain keys (e or i or u, for example) remembers an accent (such as ´ or ˆ or ¨ respectively) but makes no mark.
I’ll explain how, assuming that you are using default keyboard settings.įirst, I’ll briefly review how to produce an accented letter in a western language: In the normal, default U.S. You can key unicode hex input directly into any application in Mac OS X.