Use the following methods to insert special characters in standard desktop applications.
This works for all extended characters based on A, C, E, I, L, N, O, S, U, Y, and Z.Another method is through key stroke commands. From the Mac OS X Finder, hit Command+K to bring up the Connect to. For instance, pressing and holding the “a” key will give you these options: Theres two ways to do this, one method is just mapped for one time use and will. One simple way to access these characters is to press and hold the base character key for a second or so and you will see a popup menu with the extended character options. These characters include accented characters, math symbols, and special punctuation symbols. Testing conducted by Apple in February 2020 using pre-production 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7based MacBook Air systems with Intel Iris Plus Graphics.
