How to write French and Spanish, German accent mark (Diacritic) in your English mac keyboard.

é, î, ü, à, ç, ñ

These characters, you cannot type directly with your English keyboard setting. But you don’t need to switch a French or Spanish keyboard to type special characters English doesn’t have.

There is the Alt Codes to type these characters.

Éclair (é)

Option + e + (any characters)

Île-de-France (î)

Option + i + (any characters)

Über (ü)

Option + u + (any characters)

À tout à l’heure (à)

Option + ` + (any characters)

Ça va bien (ç)

Option + c

Español (ñ)

Option + n + (n, N)

You can find a full shortcut for these types of characters.

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