Is there a solution for OS X 10.6? I don't find it in the system preferences.
The three characters you mention '~', '^', and '`' are all on my (UK Apple) keyboard - '~' and '`' are on the key to the immediate right of the left shift key (I believe this is above the tab key on US Apple keyboards) and '^' is shift-6. Try turning on the "Keyboard & Character Viewer" in the input sources tab of the language and text section of System Preferences. Then select "Show Keyboard Viewer" from the menulet that appears in the top right of the screen - press the modifier keys and you'll be able to see what buttons do what.
Nontheless, to get other diacritical marks and whatnot on their own, you can press a key that can't have that accent on it. For instance, to produce '\´', you can press option-e and then escape or any letter key that can't take the accent (for instance, w).
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2The problem is that if I type ~^` then I have to press something like space to fix the character, otherwise the following character will be corrected (e.g. ã), or not be displayed. This is very annoying and I hope to get rid of it since I don't use those fancy letters. – Andrei Sep 22 '10 at 10:00
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Can you not just use the plain keys, then? They don't require anything to be pressed after them. What input method are you using? (in the input sources tab of the language & text section of System Preferences) – Scott Sep 22 '10 at 10:35
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1I use
Swedish-Pro
input method, but I notice the same problem forU.S. International-PC
. There are no plain keys for this characters, I have to press Shift-smth, or Opt-smth to get them. And I want to avoid the unnecessary pressing of extra keys every time I need to type those characters. – Andrei Sep 22 '10 at 10:57 -
1I see your problem. Using the Swedish - Pro layout, I can find single keys for everything but the tilde ('~'), though - have a poke about in the Keyboard Viewer, holding down combinations of option and shift. As for the tilde, the only thing I can suggest is re-mapping a key or switching to another keyboard layout, though the latter risks stymying your Swedish typing. – Scott Sep 22 '10 at 13:35
Swedish-Pro
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