Hell, I would just like some commonality between the layout of Apple device keyboards, for special characters like #%*&$@.,
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On Jan 2, 2024, at 16:14, Jim Saklad via groups.io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
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Otto wrote:
I¡¯m not sure what symbol the ¡°0¡± key gives me, but it looks like a degree symbol. I can¡¯t get the ¡°8¡± key to do anything other than 8.
I find it interesting that Apple¡¯s own version of the iPhone keyboard does let you do special symbols by holding down keys, but *different* symbols that they associate with those same keys on the Mac keyboards.
Meanwhile at least one 3rd-party keyboard gives you what I think of as the ¡°correct¡± pairing of symbols to keys ¨C in agreement with the Mac keyboard.
What I have done on my Mac for several years, is to go into the Character Viewer, look up several characters I might want to use, and save them in ¡°Favorites¡±:
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