Jakub Dlouhy You know it. You need to type a certain character on the keyboard, for example the euro symbol (€), you try some key combinations, but after a while you give up, you prefer to find the character on the Internet and copy it. In order to make your work easier next time and save you from a sometimes very difficult search, we have prepared the following list of malicious characters and instructions on how to find any other character in macOS.
Quotation marks above and below
Mac
Top quotes (“): alt + shift + H
Bottom quotes (): alt + shift + N
Windows
Top quotes (“): ALT + 0147
Bottom quotes (): ALT + 0132
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Mac
Degrees (°): alt + %
Windows
Degrees (°): ALT + 0176
Copyright, Trademark, Registered Trademark
Mac
Copyright: alt + shift + C
Trade mark: alt + shift + T
Registered Trademark: alt + shift + R
Windows
Copyright: ALT + 0169
Trade mark: ALT + 0174
Registered Trademark: ALT + 0153
Euro, dollar, pound
Mac
Euro: alt + R
Dollar: alt + 4
Libra: alt + shift + 4
Windows
Euro: right ALT + E
Dollar: right ALT + Ů
Libra: right ALT + L
Ampersand
Mac
Ampersand (&): alt + 7
Windows
Ampersand (&): ALT + 38
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Everything else
The character viewer on Mac can be displayed with a keyboard shortcut ctrl + cmd + space, so the usual way through Preferences system, followed by selection Keyboard and checking the box Show keyboard and emoticon browsers in the menu bar. You will see the complete list of characters that macOS offers and you can drag and drop them into your text.
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These are our picks for the most searched characters, but if you think we've missed any important ones, let us know in the comments. This list is a brief addition to our older but still relevant macOS writing tips article you can find <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>.
Wow, I didn't know any of them. I have a question about keyboard shortcuts - how to enlarge the font in Safari and other programs on the Czech keyboard, because I haven't figured out how to use Cmd +
command + %
It paid off for me to fill in Settings/Keyboard/Text.
On the left I have, for example, "st.C" and on the right the substitute "°C", so if I write somewhere st.C, it will automatically be replaced by °C. In all applications. Same for (r) ®, Euro €, [Enter] ↵ etc. I select the replacements (those special characters) from the character viewer (Ctrl+Cmd+Space).
Sometimes I write in Russian, so I also have their atrocities there, for example No. replace for №.
Emoticons too – LLAP is ?.
Multi-word replacements: "jvp" expands to "I'm at work".
I hope that Safari will show you the special characters correctly, otherwise I'll be on the phone.
And I also hope that my painstaking replacements will one day sync with iOS.