I Didn’t Know This: Typing Special Characters on MacOS

A short note as maybe someone does not know, like I did not know. Did you know that you can hold down a key on your keyboard in MacOS for special characters, like you can on iOS? I never tried this and certain characters can’t be typed.

For example: if I want to type the name or my friend Tantek Çelik, for the Ç I can press the keys option+shift+c (⇧+⌥+c) gives you the special Ç in his last name. If you try this with the ć and think that typing ´+c like you’d do for an é it, for some reason does not work (does anyone know why, actually?). I was wondering if there would be a way of typing this anyways instead of copying it from the glyphs panel.

That was the time when Tanja, my wife, stood in my back and said: _“Have you tried pressing and holding down the c-key?”_. And look! It does indeed work, like on iOS? This made me very happy, as I can now use it in any program. Every time I now press and hold a key to get its special characters, I have a smile in my face. Things I did not know … ;)