It is also helpful to go to this pane and click the box to enable the Keyboard Viewer, so that you can see an on-screen floating window that shows you all the available diacritical dead keys in the layout that you have selected. But at least now you know where that setting is located. I would also un-check the box for "Automatically switch to a document's input source" because I find it too confusing in practice. Here are other settings you need to be aware of.Įnable the pull-down menu on the menu bar. This screen shot shows the "shift-option" keys in ABC Extended. This screen shot shows the "option" keys in ABC Extended. Here are the diacritical "dead keys" available in the standard US layout.Īnd here are the many more diacritical "dead keys" available in the ABC Extended layout, which provide for Eastern European and Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet, along with other languages as well. Then select "English" in the next dialog box, scroll down to the bottom, select "ABC Extended" or whatever else you choose, and click "Add". In the Keyboard preference pane, click on the "plus" button in the lower left to add a new keyboard layout.
#Using pc keyboard on mac os 9 how to#
Here is how to enable either "ABC Extended" or "US International-PC". If you are on an older version of Mac OS X this keyboard layout is called "US Extended", the rest of this answer uses the most recent name but everything else is the same between versions. I think the keyboard layout you are looking for is "ABC Extended" on Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11).
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