On: The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses

[bdcravens]

> combined characters like ´e (can't type the correct e with accent mark)

You mean é ? :-)

[mschuster91 → bdcravens]

Yes. OS X keyboard drives me nuts sometimes, Karabiner can only fix some bits of the weirdness.

[girvo → mschuster91]

Hold the "e" key down for a few seconds: it will have a little dialog above where you can choose it, depending on your keyboard settings of course.

[eyelidlessness → mschuster91]

It's worth playing around with the option key when pressing letters on OS X. You're able to enter a ton of common (western) characters with that alone, without ever opening the "special characters" (ugh) palette.

Also the default configuration for a couple versions now (which I hate, but I know it benefits others) is if you hold a commonly (western) accented character, it'll suggest accents for it.

[danneu → mschuster91]

option-e and then a vowel will create {á é í ó ú}

option-u and then a vowel will create {ä ë ï ö ü ÿ}

option-n and then an 'n' will create ñ

Found this out while learning Spanish since holding down keys to select their alternate was way too slow.

[elros → danneu]

For the record:

option-n and then 'a' will create ã

option-n and then 'o' will create õ

[RobertKerans → danneu]

Thank you, this was driving me nuts.

[Jaruzel → mschuster91]

On Windows[1], á é í ó ú are achieved by holding down Ctrl+Alt and then pressing the appropriate letter.

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[1] Yes, I know you are OSX, but someone else reading this might not be.