Shortcuts for typing ACCENT MARKS doesn't work?

[ben37]

Hey all.
On mavericks here and I'm realizing that the shortcuts I used to use for foreign language accent marks no longer work....

This describes how I used to do it:

To get accents on the Mac, hold down the Option key, and while holding it down, type the letter e; then release those keys and type the letter that you want the accent to appear on:

á = Opt + e, then a
é = Opt + e, then e
í = Opt + e, then i
ó = Opt + e, then o
ú = Opt + e, then u
For the ñ, hold down the Option key while you type the n; release and type n again.

ñ = Opt + n, then n




What setting needs to be switched on/off for these shortcuts to work while writing text? thanks!

 

[And]

Hey all.
On mavericks here and I'm realizing that the shortcuts I used to use for foreign language accent marks no longer work....

This describes how I used to do it:

To get accents on the Mac, hold down the Option key, and while holding it down, type the letter e; then release those keys and type the letter that you want the accent to appear on:

á = Opt + e, then a
é = Opt + e, then e
í = Opt + e, then i
ó = Opt + e, then o
ú = Opt + e, then u
For the ñ, hold down the Option key while you type the n; release and type n again.

ñ = Opt + n, then n

What setting needs to be switched on/off for these shortcuts to work while writing text? thanks!

I'm not sure your shortcuts are correct...

try opt-a, opt-e, opt-u, etc., then the letter you want to have an accent for

û
ü
é

This is how it has always worked as far as I can recall.

 

[Nermal]

Both sets are correct, they just do different types of accents.

Check System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources. If your primary language is English then you should use an English input source; other sources may not provide the same accents. For example, US and Kotoeri do, but Maori doesn't (I don't have experience with any others).

 

[ben37]

Both sets are correct, they just do different types of accents.

Check System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources. If your primary language is English then you should use an English input source; other sources may not provide the same accents. For example, US and Kotoeri do, but Maori doesn't (I don't have experience with any others).

Weird, in System prefs>inputs it was set to unicode hex, whatever that is! I changed back to english and now they work!

Danke Schön!