(on Sierra 10.12, this is now in the Keyboard control panel). Even though I was copy/pasting the command directly from GitHub's instructions, TextEdit was. I am trying to assign a keyboard shortcut to the Develop User Agent Safari iOS 8.1 - iPhone menu item of Safari web browser. But in the System Preferences Keyboard App Shortcuts, when I enter Safari iOS 8.1 - iPhone, the keyboard shortcut does not work. I suppose that hyphen - like character that appears in the user agent menu is some other character.

When writing about people, places, or other things that use accents and other special symbols outside the 26 letters of the standard English alphabet, there are ways to add them to a document without simply using the accentless version of the letter. This AppleInsider guide offers a variety of ways to use the right accent when writing in macOS.

Apple has added a fair number of methods to enter text into a document that isn't possible by normal typing, and over the years it has expanded some ways to make them extremely useful for non-language purposes, such as emoji. Each method is useful in different ways, ranging from being the best for working at speed, to even adding the special characters without touching the keyboard at all.

The most useful method to add typical characters to a document is to use the Option key on the keyboard, as it can be performed very quickly compared to the other ways if you memorize the keyboard layout. If you hold down Option and then press a letter on the keyboard, it will insert a different character into the document, one that's typically associated with the letter in some way.

For example, Option-P will type the Pi symbol, Option-R will show the registered trademark logo, and Option-V will place the square root mathematical symbol.

The full list of symbols can be shown in Keyboard Viewer, which can be activated by various ways, but the most direct way is to select the Apple logo in the Menu followed by clicking System Preferences. Select the Keyboard icon.

In the first Keyboard tab, tick the checkbox marked Show keyboard and emoji viewers in the menu bar.

This will place a new icon in the menu bar, near to the clock on the right. Click the icon followed by Show Keyboard Viewer.

The new window will show the typical keyboard layout based on the country set up within the Input Sources section of the Keyboard settings. As you type on the physical keyboard, the virtual keyboard will react to show what keys are pressed, and will change if certain buttons are held down, such as the Shift key.

If you hold down the Option key while this is opened, it will show all of the symbols that can be typed, and which key it relates to.

You will notice that some keys will turn orange and show accents. These keys are designated for typing accented characters, and work by pressing that key while Option is held, then release Option and type the letter you wish to apply the accent to.

If you are having trouble working out which key types which symbol, you can instead hold Option on the physical keyboard, then click the required symbol or accent on the on-screen version to type it into the document.

Another way of typing symbols is to hold down the key for a few seconds to bring up a list of accented versions and related symbols that can be typed. While still holding the key down, press the number next to the accented version of the letter you want typed, and release all keys.

This method is useful if you only want to stick to the most-used accents, which does limit its usability if more exotic symbols are required, but it also doesn't require any memory of where accent keys or specific symbols are located, as with the Option key method.

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Note this version will work in many cases where a text entry box or a text editor is in use, but not every case. For example, this method will not work in OpenOffice Writer, instead opting to repeatedly type the letter, but works fine in the Chrome address bar and TextEdit.

While this method is probably best known as a way to include emoji in a message, it has applications far wider than adding smiley faces and fire symbols.

Place the cursor where you want to type the character, and press Command-Control-Space. This action will tend to bring up a smaller box with a search bar at the top and a long list of emoji and other symbols that are not accents, except for any previously selected symbols that can appear in the Frequently Used section at the top.

Next to the search box is a small icon, the same one that appears in the menu bar for Method 1. Click the icon to bring up the main Character Viewer window. Select Latin on the left to bring up the accented letters list, and click on the one you want to insert into the document.

If you have already ticked the checkbox to add the Show keyboard and emoji viewers in the menu bar from Method 1, this same Character Viewer window can be summoned by mouse alone, by clicking the keyboard preferences icon in the Menu bar then Show Emoji & Symbols. If the smaller emoji-focused version appears, click the same icon in the window to switch to the main Character Viewer.

Select Latin, then click the accented character you want to type.

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To reload a dashbord :
Open Dashboard (F12) and hit Command+R..
Nice !

You mean reload a widget.
And it's such a nifty and quick transition!
As far as I know, no where did Apple demonstrate this.

I like to work with one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse. I moved the Expose/Dashboard F-keys to F1-4 (instead of their default F9-12), and this allows me to use my left hand for Expose (F1-3) or Dashboard (F4) and to operate my mouse at the same time with my right hand.

me too!
I also set F5 to Bring All to Front, so if some of the current app's windows are hidden i can pop them forward without having to activate Expose.

i just bound the dashboard to my middle button(scroll button) on my mouse. that way if i want to quickly check dashboard I only click the scroll wheel and bamm!.
Now you have a perfectly good reason to buy a three button mouse!

I've done the same. Finally a good use for that button!

Don't you guys use that button to open a link in a new tab in Safari? :P

Yeah, I use the middle button for open-in-new-window in Safari, but as Exposé-show-all-windows-in-all everywhere else. I also add the command key to the 3 Exposé and Dashboard keys, because my F-keys are heavily used in CodeWarrior (which I use 8-10 hours a day).

It's a pity you can't assign actions to how fast you spin the mouse wheel.

N.B. : for french users the command + '=' short key won't operate and command+'-' (underscore keybord key) shall be used instead..
and then that just rocks !

On a german keyboard it's command-´ (Accent Acute).

Same on Swedish. Please update the hint for the key for different countrys so it's easier laters on to find out how.

Command - '+' on portuguese keyboards. Apparently it's command + <key immediately to the left of the Backspace key>.

That's all folks.

For Italian users: 'cmd' + 'ì'
Thanks for the hint!
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For spanish people: Cmd-'¡' (open exclamation close to backdelete)

Why not just use 'fn'+'F12' which is defined for iBooks?

The plus button is a silly addition to the OS X UI. They already had a perfectly good method for dealing with stacks of icons -- they call it the dock.
Dashboard should have simply adopted the user's settings for dock behavior for the widget bar. If the user sets the dock as auto-hidden, then the widget bar should be the same. If the user has the dock on the left edge of the screen, then the widget bar should be there, too.
It would be a clear, non-clashing use of the same technique for both the 'desktop' user space and the 'widget' user space.

I like.. Nice idea.. and when you switch to the Dashboard the Dock morphs into the new size (according to the widgets in /Library/Widgets) in the same method that the Quicktime windows smoothly resize during a normal to double size change.
Hmm.. I can see it already in slow-mo when I press shift+F12..
Dale

Perfect!

Doesn't work on my iBook with a Dvorak layout; for Dvorak, it's Cmd-].
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I'm having the same problem. They must be reading the raw keyboard somehow. Seems to be a common problem. The Java VM used to have really bad problems with that. All hot keys stayed QWERTY.

The shortcut for Spanish keyboards is Command-¡. (That's an inverted exclamation mark.)
By the way, it is not necessary to click inside the plus symbol to open the bar. Just move your mouse to the lower-left corner of your screen and click. Fitts' law!

Blimey, how often do you guys change your widget-set? Opening the bar of available widgets shouldn't be something you do so often that it needs a keyboard shortcut.
Pete

Ummmm .. how would one open a widget that's currently closed without using the widget bar? I don't leave every widget open; mostly, I leave them closed (the ones that I leave open are actually dragged to the desktop for always-there access). So I use the widget bar quite a bit..
-rob.

Widgets take a non-trivial quantity of resources to keep running (between 18 and 30 MB of physical RAM each, according to top), so I like to only keep the ones I use frequently open, in order to avoid unnecessary swapping under higher memory usage conditions, and open others when I actually need them.

Thanks for the hint!
I found that for a German keyboard layout the shortcut is Command (Apfel) and the key left of backspace (accent, character obviously not displayable here).

It's the same on Swedish keyboards.

how do I get rid of the slow motion effects? I want to be able to use the
shift-Fx keys for other apps! Also if you replace the F12 key with shift-F12 key
in the ControlPanel, pressing shift-F12 then has the effect of opening the Dashboard and the slowly closing it! Not good.

Just for the record, Tiger isn't actually mapping the shortcut as 'Apple + '+'.
It maps it to tho actual key code.
If this doesn't make sense, let me put it this way. No matter what keyboard layout you are using, the shortcut will still be 'Apple + 'the thing next to delete'.
I use DVORAK instead of QWERTY (by the way, its MUCH better), and the shertcut for me is 'Apple + }'.
~Matt