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- Oct 16, 2008.
- Adding the United States-International keyboard layout To add the United States-International keyboard layout, follow these steps: Windows 7 or Windows Vista. Click Start, type intl.cpl in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER. On the Keyboards and Language tab, click Change keyboards. Expand the language that you want.
US – International Extended v. 2.1
created by: Carly J. Born, Carleton College
copyright 2010
created by: Carly J. Born, Carleton College
copyright 2010
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This installer will install a custom designed keyboard for use in English with additional support for inputting characters for Hungarian, Indic Transcription, and Pinyin input. It is based on the US - International layout provided by Windows, which also allows for easy input of accented characters used in many European languages. This installer is provided as is with no promise of support outside of Carleton College. Install at your own risk.
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The US International English keyboard layout is recommended for those who are comfortable with the qwerty keyboard and need a variety of accent marks or symbols. It uses an intuitive method which works with most (perhaps all) Windows applications such as MS Office and web page software, while keeping the familiar qwerty layout. A USB-C to USB-C charging cable tops up the power on your MX Keys for Mac – and connects directly to your Mac without the need of a clunky dongle. MX Keys for Mac stays powered up to 10 days on a full charge – or up to 5 months with backlighting turned offBattery life may vary based on user and computing conditions.
NOTE: the characters used for Hungarian, Indic Transcription and Pinyin are Unicode characters. Those characters will only work in programs that support Unicode and with fonts that contain them.
This keyboard layout is tested on Windows XP and Windows 7. It is untested on Windows 2000 or Windows Vista, but I think it should work. It will not work on Windows 98 or earlier.
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Change log:
Version 2.2 adds support for Ũ and ũ.
Installation:
First, extract the ZIP file to an uncompressed folder:
- Right-click on the ZIP file and choose Extract All…
Install the input method:
- Open the IntlExtd2 folder
- Double-click the icon called setup.exe
- After you double-click it will appear that nothing is happening. Be patient and you will soon see a dialog box telling you your installation is complete. Click Close to complete the install process.
It is recommended that you log out of Windows or Restart before continuing.
After the necessary files are installed, you must activate the keyboard:
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- Go to Start > Settings > Control Panels > Regional and Language Options
- Click on the Language tab
- Click on the Details button under Text Services
- Click the Add button in lower part of the window under Installed Services
- In the window that appears the Input Language should be English (United States) and the Keyboard layout/IME should be United States – Intl Extended v2.1 .
- Click OK to all open windows
This will allow you to choose between the standard US input and the United States – Intl Extended v2.1 inputs from the language bar. Because it is based on the US-International keyboard, it is possible to use the United States – Intl Extended v2.1 as your only input keyboard. To do this, remove any other English inputs from the Text Services dialog box (Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages).
Using US – Intl Extended v. 2.1
In the list below, a comma (,) means to release the previous keys prior to striking the next keys; a plus sign (+) means to continue holding the previous keys while striking the next keys listed.
acute accent, pinyin 2nd tone | apostrophe, vowel | (e.g. á é í ó ú) |
grave accent, pinyin 4th tone | grave, vowel | (e.g. à è ì ò ù) |
c cedilla | apostrophe, c | (e.g. ç) |
macron accent, pinyin 1st tone | hyphen, vowel | (e.g. ā ē ī ō ū ) |
vowel with umlaut | double-quote, vowel | (e.g. ä ë ï ö ü ÿ) |
vowel with circumflex | shift+6, vowel | (e.g. â ê î ô û) |
pinyin 3rd tone | Shift + 5, vowel | (e.g. ǎ ě ǐ ǒ ǔ) |
ü with pinyin tones | Accent, double-quote | (e.g. ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ) |
letter with tilde | tilde, letter | (e.g. õ ñ ã ũ) |
letter with dot below | shift+period, letter | (e.g. ạ ḅ ṇ ọ ẓ) |
letter with double acute | shift+; , o or u | (e.g. ő, ű, Ő, Ű) |
« | ctrl + alt + [ | |
» | ctrl + alt + ] | |
€ | ctrl + alt + 5 | |
ß | ctrl + alt + s | *see note below |
ø | ctrl + alt + l | *see note below |
¿ | ctrl + alt + / | |
¡ | ctrl + alt + 1 | * see note below |
œ | Right alt + k |
* Some key combinations will not work within Microsoft Word because of the standard keyboard shortcuts that Word employs. Below is a list of Word shortcut keys that you might want to disable in order to type some European characters
Disabling Word Shortcut Keys:
- In Word, open the Tools menu > Customize
- Click on the button at the bottom that says Keyboard
- Highlight the Category and Command that you want to disable
- Under the Current Keys box, highlight the conflicting shortcut key and then click the Remove button at the bottom of the screen.
- Close all windows when you are finished
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1) In order to type ß, disable the command called DocSplit in the Windows & Help category.
2) To type ¡, disable the command called ApplyHeading1 in the Format category.
3) To type ø, disabling the ListBullet does not work. The work around that I found was to assign the appropriate keystroke to the ø character. You can do this by going to the Insert menu > Symbol, then highlight the ø character in the table and click on the Shortcut Key button. Here you can assign a shortcut key combination much the same way you removed it from the other locations.
Screen Shots of Layout
Below are screen shots of this keyboard layout. Dark gray keys signify dead keys.
Shift
AltGr (Right side ALT key)
Shift + AltGr
A Word about Code Pages
In order for this input method to work, you must use fonts that contain the characters necessary for Hungarian, Indic transliteration or Pinyin. For example, most common fonts contain the vowels with macron (e.g. ā, ō), but the number of fonts that include the n with a dot below (ṇ) are few. Generally, a font will support certain code pages of Unicode, but not all.
To understand this fully, it helps to know which characters are part of which code pages in Unicode. Below is a short list of the code pages needed to use the diacritics supported by this keyboard, and the characters that below to each.
- Latin-1 Supplemental: vowels with accents grave, acute, circumflex, umlaut, etc.
- Latin Extended A: vowels with macron, œ ligature, e with pinyin 3rd tone, ő and ű, some consonants with cirucumflex
- Latin Extended B: other vowels with pinyin 3rd tone, u with umlaut & tones
- Latin Extended Additional: consonants with dot below
Note that there are many other characters contained within these code pages, but they are not necessarily supported by this keyboard. For more information about Unicode code pages, see http://www.unicode.org/charts/
Most fonts contains some combination of the code pages listed above, but few contain the Latin Extended Additional code page which includes the consonants with the dot below. Below is a short list of fonts that contain these characters.
Serif Fonts: Gentium, GentiumAlt, Doulos SIL
Sans Serif Fonts: Tahoma, Arial Unicode MS, MS Reference Sans Serif
Tahoma comes with the standard Windows operating system. Download Gentium, GentiumAlt and Doulos SIL from www.sil.org. Arial Unicode MS comes with Microsoft Office as an additional installation. It is usually referred as ‘International Font’.
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Whether you’re new to Mac or have been using it for years, highly specialized things like shortcuts, special Mac symbols, and accented characters might result in a web investigation spiralling out of control.
If you’ve just recently switched from Windows, you should know that Macs don’t really use alt codes to type special symbols. Instead, all of the most popular Unicode characters can be typed in right from the keyboard. Unfortunately, Apple could do a much better job of shining light at this functionality.
For example, if you want to get a copyright symbol on Windows (©), you need to type in Alt 0169 — whereas, a copyright symbol on Mac is just Option + G. Similarly, a degree symbol on Mac (º) is Option + Zero and a registered trademark symbol on Mac (™) is Option + 2.
Truth is there are many more like this and below we’ll explore different ways of how to type copyright symbol on Mac or any special characters Macs allow, where to find Apple keyboard symbols, and whether there’s an emoji keyboard on Mac.
What Are All The Mac Keyboard Symbols?
While a standard computer keyboard contains around 80 keys, you’re able — in one way or another — use it to input all of the Unicode characters, of which there are about 130,000.
To start, simply explore how all the face-value characters change when you combine them with modifier keys — Control, Option, and Command. You can even combine multiple modifiers together as well. To see all Mac keyboard shortcuts symbols clearly, however, you need to turn on the full keyboard layout.
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Display all Mac keyboard symbols
Even if you’ve been using your Mac for a while, it’s useful to look at all the possible keyboard combinations from time to time to refresh your memory and discover new ways of quickly inputting information.
Luckily, it’s easy to show all Mac key symbols at once:
- Go to System Preferences ➙ Keyboard
- Check the box next to “Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar”
Now you can click on the language flag in your menu bar and choose Show Keyboard Viewer. The interactive display will appear, showing all the keyboard symbols and altering the view in real time when you use modifier keys.
Of course, even using all the modifier keys and combinations available, it’s impossible to fit all the characters in such constrained amount of space. To see all Mac key symbols, you need to select Show Emoji & Symbols option from the same language flag menu, or use a shortcut Control + Cmd + Space.
Here, you’ll see all kinds of categories on the left: Emoji, Arrows, Currency Symbols, etc. In the center are all the characters within a given category. And on the right you can pick a font variation of the same symbol.
To type in a TM symbol Macs use, for example:
- Open your word processor of choice
- Call the Mac symbols menu
- Navigate to Letterlike Symbols on the sidebar
- Double-click on ™ to paste it into your editor
How to create custom Mac keyboard shortcuts symbols
With the Show Emoji & Symbols window, you have access to nearly all Unicode characters you’ll ever need. However, if you need to use some special characters — such as a copyright symbol on Mac — rather frequently, it would be quite inconvenient to call up a menu and search for what you need every time. Of course, you can add the copyright symbol to your favorite characters, which will save you some time, but there’s a much better way.
Macs allow you to create shortcuts for all keyboard symbols to be able to easily type them in whenever you need. For example, to create a shortcut for the copyright symbol on Mac:
- Type in the © character into your editor as described above and copy it with Command + C
- Open System Preferences ➙ Keyboard
- Navigate to the Text tab
- Click the plus sign
- Paste your © symbol in the With column on the right
- Type in a desired key combination to trigger the copyright symbol on Mac in the Replace column on the left
Although this default shortcuts method works well for characters or emoji, it doesn’t effectively translate into longer strings of text or paragraphs. If you want to, for instance, create a shortcut that outputs a sales email template, you’d need to use a little nifty tool called Rocket Typist.
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Rocket Typist is a full-featured text expansion app created to minimize repetition in composing any form of text-based communication. It’s essentially a small database of text snippets you’ll use over and over again.
Starting with Rocket Typist is easy: use File ➙ New to create a new snippet, specify the abbreviation, fill out as much text (sentences or even paragraphs) as you need, and then use the abbreviation to expand text in any application.
How to switch between keyboard languages quickly
Sometimes, the Mac keyboard symbols you need are only available in another language — say, they could be Cyrillic-based. To access them, you’d need to enable another keyboard layout on your Mac.
Luckily, it’s easy to do:
- Go to System Preferences ➙ Keyboard
- Navigate to Input Sources
- Click the plus sign
- Choose the language you need and press Add
Now, the second keyboard layout will be activated. Don’t forget to check the box next to “Show Input menu in menu bar” to see which layout is currently active. The standard shortcut to switch between layouts is Cmd + Space, but you can also change it to Caps Lock key in the Input Sources options.
Extra tip: typing emoji on iPhone is much easier if you add an emoji keyboard layout to your languages.
Special Characters: Type in various symbol variations
In some cases, you might just want to access a variation of the symbol that’s already on your keyboard, such as an accented letter.
One way to do this is to find the character of your choice in the Keyboard Viewer, as described above. Another way is to use a keyboard shortcut. You can get an acute accent by typing Option + E and then the letter. Similarly, circumflex is Option + I, grave accent is Option + backquote, tilde is Option + N, and umlaut is Option + U.
A quicker option though is to simply press the key of the letter you want to modify and hold it for a second until a small menu appears. Then just choose a number that corresponds to the modification you seek.
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If your studies or line of work require the use of complex math, you might be spending too much time crafting LaTeX and MathML expressions by hand. But as with nearly everything else nowadays, there’s an easier way.
MathKey is a Mac app specifically developed to write complex equations in academic papers and math documents. Instead of composing dozens of obscure symbols together, the app allows you to hand-write the equation using your trackpad (or mouse) and output perfect LaTeX or MathML, ready for publication.
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Any question about Mac keyboard shortcuts symbols — such as “how to type copyright symbol on Mac?” — would be met with a guiding response. And all you have to do to start Lacona is press Option + Space.
So there are a lot of things your Mac is capable of that you might have not even considered before. With regards to symbols and characters, what you see on the keyboard is just a tiny slice compared to the total amount available. Using Mac symbols properly will enrich your communication, making it clear and efficient, especially if you get used to creating snippets with Rocket Typist, transferring math equations with MathKey, and keeping everything at the tips of your fingers with Lacona.
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