Text symbols on Mac computes

Keyboard viewer of Mac OS

You can't actually input Alt codes on Macintosh. But there is even better alternative. You can use a standard built-in program. It's called "Keyboard viewer". It displays an on-screen keyboard with hell lots of characters.

Here are steps you need to accomplish to enable "Keyboard viewer" program on Mac computer.

Steps

Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click International.
Click Input Menu, then select the check-box next to Keyboard Viewer.
Select the "on" check-box next to language whose keyboard layout you want to use.
Choose Show Keyboard Viewer from the Input menu on the right side of the menu bar (the one that looks like a flag).

Now, depending on the language you select, a flag will be in the menu bar. Whenever you want to type a special character, click the flag and select "Show Keyboard Viewer". When you press Shift and Option buttons, the on-screen keyboard will show up. And the good thing is, you don't have to keep a list of Alt codes near you.

Anyway, remember, that you can always just come to this website (alt-codes.org) and copy-paste some symbols that I have.

Also

Apple logo symbol can be input on Macs and Apple stuff with [Shift] + [Option] + [K].

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1 = ¡	q = œ	a = å	z = Ω
2 = ™	w = ∑	s = ß	x = ≈
3 = £	e = ´	d = ∂	c = ç
4 = ¢	r = ®	f = ƒ	v = √
5 = ∞	t = †	g = ©	b = ∫
6 = §	y = ¥	h = ˙	n = ˜
7 = ¶	u =¨	j = ∆	m = µ
8 = •	I = ˆ	k = ˚	, = ≤
9 = ª	o = ø	l = ¬	. = ≥
0 = º	p = π	; = …	/ = ÷
- = –	[ = “	space = æ
= = ≠	] = ‘
	\ = «

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