Euro sign on US (Mac) keyboard?
 

Can someone more adept than I am please tell me how to type the euro sign on a US (Mac) keyboard? (I am tired of writing simply E.) Many thanks!

shift+option+2 = €

Since not all keyboards produce characters that render correctly with all browsers, the preferred way to post the Euro sign is to use the HTML code, thus:

<b>&amp;euro;</b> (note the trailing semicolon)

&euro;&euro;&euro; Wow..shift plus option plus 2....&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&eu ro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro ;&euro;&euro; Thank you!!!

Would you also like to know how to make accents on a Mac, like &eacute;, &egrave;, &ocirc;, and &ccedil;?

Anselm

Yes, please, Anselm. I would love to learn how to make these marks!

&Ccedil; - shift option c

&Ocirc; - shift option j

not sure about the other two . . .

Well thank you! Is there a web page where these types of things are listed or shall I just write them down? Thanks from one who still uses pen and paper!!

I have a Mac and when I purchased, I specified a Spanish keyboard (I do a lot of writing in Spanish, so I need the accents right there). So, though that may sound drastic, if you use them a lot, it is helpful.

If you don't care whether your shift+option combinations are legible to anyone else, knock yourself out.

But if you want your deathless prose to be readable to ANYone using ANY browser, then use the HTML standards like the grownups do.

<b>&amp;eacute;
&amp;egrave;
&amp;ocirc;
&amp;ccedil;</b>

An exhaustive list can be found at

http://www.faqs.org/docs/htmltut/cha...amsupp_69.html

Here you go, ekscrunchy:

&eacute; = option+e, e
&egrave; = option+`, e
&ocirc; = option+i, o
&icirc; = option+i, i
&ccedil; = option+c
&ouml; = option+u, o
¢ = option+$

Hope that makes sense. There are a whole bunch of other symbols if you play around with the option key, including pounds sterling, but that escapes me at the moment.

Anselm

<b>&amp;pound;</b>

Flashback:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34664331

Anselm

Ansel,
That is so cool! I couldn't get over my new power!
&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro; !

Paule

How about the standard Alt + 0128 &euro;

&euro;

Well shift + option + 2 works on aol - not sure about others.

Wow!!! Thanks so much.This is one thread I will send myself..

&pound; is the easiest (just another reason why I LOVE my mac and don't have to remember amperands, number strings and such - but of course some people won't approve :) they think writing code is the be all and end all )

opt + 3 &pound; &pound; &pound; two key strokes - soooooo easy.

Anselm - thanks for the others

&eacute;, &ouml; -- ooh this is fun

ampersands - - - - Oh well, it's late . . . . .

I have the Apple powerbook... and somehow I found a character palette (this appears as a small American flag in the upper right hand corner of my screen) that let's you simply open a list of currency symbols, accented latin characters et. - you just click the one you want and hit insert and it appears in your text.

oh wait ! I found it again. click on systems preferences, click on international, then on Input Menu.
when the screen comes up, click on Character Palette and the little US flag if it's not checked. make sure you check the little box at the bottom that says &quot;show input menu in menu bar&quot;.

patricia

Patricia, thanks for that. I just clicked on the little American flag and there it was: &quot;Show character palette.&quot; Perfect. (Now if only I could get that flag changed to a Canadian one ...)

Anselm

Thanks to all!
&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&e uro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&eur o;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;&euro;

Robespierre, I do not understand the &EURO; directions....what keys exactly do I press and in what order? Sorry again to be such a dolt!

This is not about whether <b>shift option 2</b> is easier to remember than <b>&amp;euro;</b> (which theory I find ludicrous, but no matter).

It's about whether the code your computer embeds in the document turns out as a <b>&euro;</b> or some random garbage character on everyone <u>else</u>'s browser. I should think common courtesy would dictate using methods that result in text that is legible to the greatest number of readers.

I don't know why some people seem to have so much trouble with this concept. But then, I can't fathom much of that whole Mac sensibility anyway. Somehow, I'm not surprised that it's that group who are the least concerned with compatibility. Maybe it's subconscious payback by a minority who feel they're oppressed by the other 97% of computer users.

ekscrunchy, we crossed posts.

Try typing <b>&amp;euro;</b> in the <i>post a reply</i> box (note: all lower case). All of the character codes are case-sensitive, so that <b>&amp;eacute;</b> comes out &eacute; and <b>&amp;Eacute;</b> renders as &Eacute;.

patricia: Ooh - that's cool. And if you also activate &quot;show keyboard viewer&quot; it displays similar to the old &quot;key caps&quot;. Clicking shift+opt, opt, etc it shows the resulting symbol.

Just another way if you'd rather use the keyboard instead of &quot;insert&quot;

ttt

Anselm - don't change it to a Canadian flag! I figured out how (feeling patriotic), but it changes the keyboard layout. I guess there must be some &quot;offical&quot; Canadian keyboard layout that no one knows about (I certainly haven't ever seen one). Your commas and symbols get all messed up - they don't match your keyboard when you set it to the Canadian layout. The keyboard layout we use in Canada is the US one, so you are stuck with the US flag.

saltymuffin (love that screen name, by the way), thanks for the tip.

Anselm

&euro;
&eacute;
&pound;
Thank you, Robespierre. I have bookmarked the &quot;exhausted list&quot; you gave. It doesn't show &euro; so it must be &quot;older&quot;.

Thanks for the tips. ((*))

&amp;euro

What am I doing wrong..pressing &amp; and then typing euro....???? It just reads as &amp;euro, not as the euro sign.......

sorry Robespierre and thank you and everyone else for taking the time...

You have to add the <b>;</b> at the end, as Robespierre says &quot;note the trailing semicolon&quot;.

&euro;

((*))

Robes, you are so sharp when it comes to these techy things, I think you deserve 2 gold stars. ((*)) ((*))

:-)

[Shucks.] :&quot;&gt;

&euro;

bookmarking

Robespierre, thanks for the tips. I have always used the old ASCII codes (Alt+###) to make accented characters. Do these have the same compatibility issues as the Mac combos listed? (Garbage characters in text drive me nuts, so I'd rather not unwittingly foist them on somebody else!)

bookmarking for me too :)