They say you learn something new every day. I’m not sure about that but last night I discovered something through Twitter that I never knew about: a quick way to generate foreign accents on the Mac and on iOS.
Foreign accents on Windows were always a nightmare for me. On the Mac not so much — you just have to remember the option key combination to get ‘château’ for example. But why bother with option keys? Instead just hold down the letter you want to add an accent to…
Hit the number for the accent you want and… bingo, it’s there.
Perhaps this has been around for years and I never knew. Whatever, I’ll be using it from now on.
David Hewson 