Mac Keyboard Viewer
Mac Keyboard Viewer
In macOS, you can type special characters such as { é ƒ © ≠ ≥ ° }, by holding down the ⌥ option key. To see what characters are available, you can pull the Keyboard Viewer.
![macOS 10.15.5 keyboard viewer 2020-07](ilayout/macOS_10.15.5_keyboard_viewer_2020-07-25.png)
Hold ⌥ option down to type Unicode symbols.
Those colored orange are prefix keys, allowing you to type accented characters such as é ü ô.
You can make it insert emoji. [see Mac: Create Custom Keyboard Layout]
How to Turn on Keyboard Viewer
![mac keyboard preference 2017 09 33869](i2/mac_keyboard_preference_2017-09_33869.png)
To start Keyboard Viewer:
- Open System Preferences
- Click keyboard icon
- Select “Input Sources” tab
- Click at the botton “Show input menu in menu bar”.
- Then, on the input menu at the top right of the menu bar, there's a menu [Show Keyboard Viewer] menu. This will show the Keyboard Viewer.
![mac keyboard menu bar 2017 09 06497](i2/mac_keyboard_menu_bar_2017-09_06497.png)