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I keep seeing people using OSX and being unable to use accented characters when using the US keyboard layout, out of laziness or ignorance. For the later, here is my good deed for the day…

I use this ever since I got a Mac and couldn’t cope with the Portuguese layout. Some keys are in a different place than on standard PC keyboards, and the braindead mechanism of entering characters like square brackets and braces. I settled on using the US layout I was familiar with it from my DOS days when “KEYB PO” didn’t kick in from autoexec.bat.

Mac US Keyboard Dead Keys (typed before base character)

• Option-n = tilde
• Option-` = grave
• Option-e = acute
• Option-u = diaeresis/umlaut
• Option-i = circumflex
• Option-c = c-cedilla
• Option-0 = º
• Option-9 = ª

Source where I copied this from.