Stephen Connolly / Note to self: Mac Keyboard and ‘fancy’ characters

Created Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Modified Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000
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Special Symbols and Characters on the regular Mac Keyboard

These are for the British Keyboard layout

Currency Symbols

SymbolKey combination
$ dollarShift+4
¢ centsOption+4
£ poundShift+3
¥ yenOption+y
€ euroOption+2

Trademark and Copyright Symbols

SymbolKey combination
© copyrightOption+g
® registeredOption+r
™ trademarkOption+Shift+2

Apple Symbol

SymbolKey combination
 appleOption+Shift+K

Math and Greek Character Symbols

SymbolKey combination
± plus-or-minusOption+Shift+Equals
µ microOption+h
π piOption+l (as in L is for llama)
√ square rootOption+t
÷ divided byOption+/ (slash is key to the left of right-hand shift key)
· middle dotOption+Shift+9
≈ almost equalOption+x
≠ not equalOption+=
∞ infinityOption+Shift+T
≤ less than or equalOption+, (comma)
≥ greater than or equalOption+. (period)
Å Angstrom signOption+Shift+K, Shift+A
∑ summation signOption+Shift+F
° degree signOption+Shift+0 (zero)
∂ partial differentialOption+d
∫ integralOption+Shift+D
Ω OmegaOption+Shift+Z

Copyediting, typesetting, and miscellaneous symbols

SymbolKey combination
‡ double daggerOption+Shift+semicolon
¶ pilcrow signOption+7
§ section signOption+5
• bullet signOption+Shift+8

Punctuation marks

SymbolKey combination
‘ left single quotation markOption+]
’ right single quotation markOption+Shift+]
“ left double quotation markOption+[
” right double quotation markOption+Shift+[
« left pointing double angle quotation markOption+\ (backslash)
» right pointing double angle quotation markOption+Shift+\ (backslash)
‹ single left pointing angle quotation markOption+Shift+3
› single right pointing angle quotation markOption+Shift+4
¡ inverted exclamation markOption+1
¿ inverted question markOption+Shift+?
… ellipsisOption+; (semicolon)