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by wmf 1088 days ago
People don't know how to type accents though.
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It's dang easy on Mac. You just hit alt + the key it looks similar to.

Å = opt (AKA alt) + shift + a

How would I know in advance that this gives Å and not Æ or à or Ā or  or À or Á or Ä? And how would I type the other ones? Don't have a Mac, so I actually don't know how it is supposed to be done.
> How would I know in advance that this gives Å and not Æ or à or Ā or  or À or Á or Ä?

The same way you know in advance that CTRL+SHIFT+@ gives you Å in Windows?

Both Windows and Mac can display an on-screen keyboard that will display the character that will be output if you press a key along with modifier keys like CTRL or Option.

That's a very US-centric view of things.

On my Mac pressing "opt (AKA alt) + shift + a" gives me: Ą - which I much prefer, since it comes from my native language :)

Doing that for all of a..z and A..Z gives

å∫ç∂´ƒ©˙ˆ∆˚¬µ˜øπœ®ß†¨√∑≈\Ω

ÅıÇδϩӈÔ˚Ò˜Ø∏Œ®Í†¨√∑≈ÁΩ