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I am often typing in different languages depending on the app I use in MacOS. But I don't want to change input source (i.e., keyboard layout) because it takes time and I would have to revert almost immediately. Moreover, modern MacOS's are able to recognise and correct spelling automatically by language without having to change keyboard layout (System Settings → Keyboard → Spelling → Automatic by Language), which is quite handy.

However, the spelling not being perfect, I have to type correctly some of the word(s). For that I rely on the long key press to "Use the accent menu" or the dead keys. Unfortunately, neither the long press, nor the dead keys offer the diacritical mark I quite often need, in my case the letter ő (LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE, Unicode: U+0151, UTF-8: C5 91).

Moreover, most of the characters that appear in the long press are useless as they either have a key on my keyboard for them, or I can use the dead keys.

Restrictions:

  • I use macOS Ventura (v. 13.6.3);
  • Keyboard is CH-FR (Swiss French);
  • As noted above, I do not want to change the input source (say from CH-FR keyboard to ABC).

My questions:

  • Is there a way to replace one (or more) of the suggested characters that appear in the long key press?
  • If yes, how?
pdeli
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  • See this earlier answer: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20505/how-to-add-characters-to-the-press-and-hold-character-picker-in-os-x-lion?rq=1 – Tom Gewecke Feb 07 '24 at 15:15
  • If you switch to the ABC Extended input source, you can make all accents via option dead keys. Double accute is Option J, ő – Tom Gewecke Feb 07 '24 at 15:17
  • @TomGewecke. Thanks for your answers. I checked https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/44928/70284, however the solution seems not to apply to macOS Ventura (13.6.3) anymore (that's what I'm using, from OS X Lion referenced in the link). As for the input source, I specified in my OM that I don't want to change it (for the same reason as the user in your link). Will specify all this in my OM. – pdeli Feb 11 '24 at 14:55
  • I suspect that Apple has made it impossible to do this in Ventura and later, or at least no one has figured it out. Another work around is to customise ch-fr to add any needed characters with https://software.sil.org/ukelele/ – Tom Gewecke Feb 11 '24 at 18:05

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