Diacritical Marks for Western Characters*
PC | Mac |
*For non-Western characters, please go to Unicode site: http://www.unicode.org
Desktop Computers
- Activate the Num Lock key.
- Press Alt + triple-digit number (Note: Use the specially designed number keyboard found to the right of your standard computer keyboard.)
Laptop Computers
- Activate the Num Lock key.
- Press Alt + triple-digit number (Note: Do not use the standard number keys found at the top of your keyboard; numbers are found on the alphabet keys.)
Multiple-digit Number Combinations
à | 133 | À | 0192 | î | 140 | Î | 0206 | ¡ | 173 | ||||
æ | 0230 | Æ | 0198 | ì | 0236 | Ì | 0204 | ||||||
â | 131 |  | 0194 | ï | 139 | Ï | 0207 | œ | 0156 | ||||
á | 160 | à | 0195 | í | 161 | Í | 0205 | Œ | 0140 | ||||
ã | 0227 | Ä | 0196 | ð | 0240 | Ð | 0208 | š | 0154 | ||||
ä | 0228 | É | 144 | þ | 0254 | Þ | 0222 | Š | 0138 | ||||
é | 130 | È | 0200 | ý | 0253 | Ý | 0221 | ƒ | 0131 | ||||
è | 138 | Ê | 0202 | ÿ | 0255 | Ÿ | 0159 | µ | 0181 | ||||
ê | 136 | Ë | 0203 | ô | 147 | Ô | 0212 | « | 174 | ||||
ë | 137 | ¿ | 168 | ó | 162 | Ó | 0211 | » | 175 | ||||
ç | 135 | Ç | 128 | ø | 0248 | Ø | 0216 | ¿ | 168 | ||||
ü | 129 | Ü | 0220 | õ | 0245 | Õ | 0213 | ||||||
û | 150 | Û | 0219 | ö | 0246 | Ö | 0214 | ||||||
ú | 163 | Ú | 0218 | ò | 0242 | Ò | 0210 | ||||||
ù | 151 | Ù | 0217 | ñ | 164 | Ñ | 165 |
Hold down the OPTION key and whatever comes after the plus sign (+ ) at the same time. Then, release the key combination and type what comes after the comma.
Acute | á, é, í, ó, ú | Option + e, the letter |
Grave | à, ù, è, ì, ò | Option + `, the letter |
Tilde | ñ, Ñ, ã | Option + n, N,a |
Circumflex | â, ê, û, î, ô | Option + i, the letter |
Umlaut | Ü, ü, ï, ë, ö, ä | Option + u, the letter |
Cedilla | Ç, ç | Option + c or C |
Beta | Option + s | |
æ | Option + apostrophe | |
Inverted ? | ¿ | Option + shift + ? |
Inverted ! | ¡ | Option + 1 |
French | « | Option + \ |
parentheses | » | Option + | |
oe | Option + q |