Typing degree symbol in wifi password on macbook?

[jixx 15]

We're in Argentina, where everyone has the degree symbol (°) on their keyboard (except us with our macbook), and our new landlord has added it to the wifi password. It won't allow us to enter the symbol into the field any of the following ways...

option + shift + 8
option + 0
copying and pasting

Anyone know how without having the password changed? Please help!
Thank you

 

[jj48]

We're in Argentina, where everyone has the degree symbol (°) on their keyboard (except us with our macbook), and our new landlord has added it to the wifi password. It won't allow us to enter the symbol into the field any of the following ways...

option + shift + 8
option + 0
copying and pasting

Anyone know how without having the password changed? Please help!
Thank you

Firstly I think option + 8 will work for you. Now there are 2 methods I could have used to find this out.

If you have Microsoft Word installed then you could use the advanced symbol browser to find the corresponding shortcut.

Alternatively you could try using the keyboard viewer (which is what I did). This can be done by:

- Going to system preferences -> language and text -> input sources.

- Presumably your default input language is Spanish - if you now select a second language then a new flag icon will appear in the menu bar.

- Clicking this flag and selecting "Show Keyboard Viewer" will bring up a keyboard on your display.

You are then free to view all option/shift shortcuts at once by holding down the appropriate key(s).

Let me know if this works for you?

 

[jixx 15]

Typing degree symbol in wifi password on macbook?

jj48, thank you very much for your reply.

We do have microsoft word, and we had tried to use the advanced symbol lookup to cut and paste that to the field, but it would not paste. Always we get that dull sound that's made when we've committed an error.

I looked up keyboard viewer, which does help show the shortcuts, but still the short cuts (option + shift + 8) in English [US] or (option + 8) in Spanish do not take when attempting to type in the field. We get the dull sound again.

I may have misunderstood your suggestion however. Please let me know if you have any other tips.

Thanks!

 

[jj48]

jj48, thank you very much for your reply.

We do have microsoft word, and we had tried to use the advanced symbol lookup to cut and paste that to the field, but it would not paste. Always we get that dull sound that's made when we've committed an error.

I looked up keyboard viewer, which does help show the shortcuts, but still the short cuts (option + shift + 8) in English [US] or (option + 8) in Spanish do not take when attempting to type in the field. We get the dull sound again.

I may have misunderstood your suggestion however. Please let me know if you have any other tips.

Thanks!

I think you've understood my suggestion perfectly. Unfortunately I think the problem is actually that the wi-fi password dialogue box doesn't allow a lot of characters (for example I can't type £ in mine, even though it's just shift + 3).

My only suggestion now is that you ask your landlord nicely to change the password! Sorry.

 

[jixx 15]

Typing degree symbol in wifi password on macbook?

Ok, thank you. It looks like it's our only solution.

Thanks

 

[Mal]

Before you mess with that, you could also try finding the HEX equivalent password and entering that instead. It might solve the problem without asking the landlord to change the password.

jW

 

[Nigel Goodman]

Since entering a wi-fi password does not happen very often, have you tried typing the password in a text editor (e.g. TextEdit) in plain text and then copying and pasting it into the password entry?

Or, just copy the ° and paste it in the appropriate place.

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

You're a goodman, Nigel, but I hope the original poster has already solved the problem, moved out, found a new place, bought a new car, adopted a dog, visited Tahiti, and bankrolled a prizefighter.

 

[Nigel Goodman]

Whoops! That was embarrassing! Not paying attention obviously.