I had them listed on my old machine, but found I never used them, because it was easier to use the US-International keyboard for all of them.Īfter a while, I went back to the original problem, looked at the "US Extended" keyboard - and it had changed to show all the dead keys I'd had on my old machine. to my list, which already had Russian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hebrew, etc., but no other Latin-based keyboards. I added languages like Czech, Polish, Croatian, etc.
then, after wondering where it was all hiding, I decided to take time out and examine a bunch of other language-specific keyboards. Nope it also showed the same 5 dead keys, good for French and German (which I use a lot), but not so good for Danish or Czech or Croatian. I poked around at it for a while, tried varying various settings, with nothing changing, until I suddenly noticed that the "US International - PC" keyboard had appeared in the list. When I tried to follow the above instruction, I did find the "US Extended" keyboard setting, but when I selected it, I saw the same 5 dead keys as in the "U.S." keyboard, but none of the others shown above. I seem to have partially "solved" the problem, though I don't quite understand how I did even that. It takes more time, but at least I am 100% sure of which keyboard layout I am using at any given moment. I would rather use the pull-down menu on the menu bar. I decided to disable these keyboard shortcuts because I found that it was too easy to accidentally rotate among multiple keyboard layouts and I was confusing myself as to which layout I was using at any given time. Here is where you can enable or disable the custom keyboard shortcuts to rotate among the list of different keyboard layouts which you have selected. This is what the menu looks like (with whatever multiple layouts you wish to choose) It is also helpful to go to this pane and click the box to enable the Keyboard Viewer, so that you can see an on-screen floating window that shows you all the available diacritical dead keys in the layout that you have selected. But at least now you know where that setting is located. I would also un-check the box for "Automatically switch to a document's input source" because I find it too confusing in practice.
Here are other settings you need to be aware of.Įnable the pull-down menu on the menu bar.
This screen shot shows the "shift-option" keys in ABC Extended. This screen shot shows the "option" keys in ABC Extended. Here are the diacritical "dead keys" available in the standard US layout.Īnd here are the many more diacritical "dead keys" available in the ABC Extended layout, which provide for Eastern European and Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet, along with other languages as well. Then select "English" in the next dialog box, scroll down to the bottom, select "ABC Extended" or whatever else you choose, and click "Add". In the Keyboard preference pane, click on the "plus" button in the lower left to add a new keyboard layout.
#ONSCREEN KEYBOARD FOR MAC OSX UTILITIES HOW TO#
Here is how to enable either "ABC Extended" or "US International-PC".
#ONSCREEN KEYBOARD FOR MAC OSX UTILITIES MAC OS X#
If you are on an older version of Mac OS X this keyboard layout is called "US Extended", the rest of this answer uses the most recent name but everything else is the same between versions. I think the keyboard layout you are looking for is "ABC Extended" on Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11).
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