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The Mac’s keyboard has 26 letters, ten numbers and a handful of symbols, but there are actually hundreds of characters, including accents, umlauts and more. There are sometimes eight or nine different variations of a single vowel, for example. There are hundreds of emoji characters and pictographs, too. Currencies from around the world use special symbols, there are maths symbols, Greek letters and many more. So how do you enter all of these characters? There are a couple of ways and one is to use the keyboard viewer, which shows how modifier keys like option/alt can change the character typed. Another way is to use the Character window to select characters and symbols. Here we’ll show you both ways.