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special characters

  1. KCBurns

    How to add special characters to holder keyboard

    I would like to add "ǎ" to the holder keyboard. I know to type it by using shortcut or character viewer but it is complicate for me since I have to type many of special characters a day and every day. When I hold down "a". It shows "à á â ä æ ã å ā" but not "ǎ". Anyone help me, please. Thanks
  2. baryon

    How can I reliably type the letters ő and ű in OS X?

    I often switch between English and Hungarian while typing, and it would be inconvenient to swap keyboard layouts mid-sentence as many the keys are in different places and I can't memorize them all. I realize that OS X has the "press-and-hold" special character feature, but this feature doesn't...
  3. mac-morten

    Mail - Special Characters

    I have OS 10.9.5 and I often want to use Mail's (7.3) 'Special Characters' (in Edit). I have chosen a lot of these special characters as my Favorites but for me is has shown 'IM-PLETELY COM-POSSIBLE' to open the Special Characters directely in my Favorites – instead it always opens in another...