Easy Character Accents in Mac OS X?

Posted by Cliff on Friday May 9, 2003 @10:23AM from the simple-keystrokes-for-funny-characters dept.

joesao writes "How have people been typing accents under OS X? I'm not talking funky key combinations, but simple, 'dead-key' stuff like: a + ` = à. In Windows this is accomplished easily by setting the input locale for keyboards as 'United States-International' but the similar function under System Preferences doesn't have any acceptable keyboards. Unicode isn't an option, either; only a few applications support that. Documentation on Apple's site is scant, and a Google search doesn't yield anything that really works. Anybody out there have a decent keyboard file for Mac OS X?"

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Accents under OS X by kurosawdust · 2003-05-09 10:47 · Score: 5, Funny

How have people been typing accents under OS X?
This should take care of your needs.
Italian:
Just add "a" to the end of all words. (e.g. "This-a is-a how-a it-a looks-a!")
English:
Remove all 'h's.
Scottish:
Remove all coherence.
Australian:
Apparently, Australia is an advanced civilization where they have efficiently replaced every noun with the word "Foster's."
American:
Pepper your writing liberally with the word "like".