How can I enter ASCII characters on a MacBook?

KPeh · 28 Mar 2008 at 21:52

As per the title? Alt-Cmd and various combinations of control, fn and enter don't seem to be working. Thanks

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Eg: I want to do something like alt-(number)

Caged · 28 Mar 2008 at 22:47

What are you trying to achieve? Accents? Most of that stuff can be entered using Alt+e for example, then typing the character you want under it.

KPeh · 28 Mar 2008 at 23:06

I'm trying to enter the long hyphen (em) without copying and pasting. Can't find it on the character board either. I'd just like to type alt-0151 (or whatever it is)..!

KPeh · 29 Mar 2008 at 12:27

I have... No luck.

Maybe it's not possible. Maybe Macs just suck.

This has got to work!

J1234 · 29 Mar 2008 at 12:45

Go to System Preferences > International > Click 'Input Menu' > Then tick keyboard viewer to 'On' and make sure 'Show in menu bar' is ticked.

You'll then see a little Union Jack in the menu bar, click it then click 'Show Keyboard Viewer'.

You'll see a onscreen keyboard, hold down 'Alt' to see the characters you can use.

Sic · 29 Mar 2008 at 12:52

ASCII is outdated. Use UTF-8.