Re: Formatting toolbar in Mail?
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On 3 Jan 2024, at 00:14, Jim Saklad via ??< jimdoc@...> wrote:
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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I¡¯ve done something similar on the Mac. In System Preferences > Keyboard > Text I¡¯ve set up fractions, exponents, some symbols, and a few text abbreviations: <PastedGraphic-1.png>
Mail > Message > View Message > Raw Source shows me that hold-0 on the iPhone is indeed the same character as shift-?-8, *not* ?¨C0, on the Mac. I thought that hold-0 on the iPhone might be because that is how Android does it but we have an Amazon Fire Tablet and that is not the case: ¡ã is in the special characters tab.
Correction: that should be Mail > View > Message > Raw Source
Otto
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