Its content should be key and action pairs, like this: (if you don't know what utf8 is, just keep all text in your file ascii)). The “DefaultKeyBinding.dict” file is just a text file (it must be encoded in utf8. (create the KeyBindings dir if you don't already have it) To create your own, you need to create a file at “~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict”. The default keybiding used by the system is at “/System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Resources/StandardKeyBinding.dict”. The good news is that you can customize the keymap for your own need. You may find that you don't need most of these chars, while some others you need but are not there. The default map for special chars tries to jam all the commonly used characters to cover diverse needs (may it be for Europeans (“éüçø£¡¿«»”), or printers ( Those colored orange are prefix keys, allowing you to type combination characters such as “áéíóú”. This will show the Keyboard Viewer.Ībove: Key maps from the Keyboard Viewer (using a Dvorak keyboard), showing you what characters you can type using the Option key. Then, on the input menu at the top right of the menu bar, there's a “Show Keyboard Viewer” menu. To start Keyboard Viewer, go to System Preferences, International, Input Menu tab, then click at the bottom “Show input menu in menu bar”. To see what characters are available, you can pull the Keyboard Viewer. In Mac OS X, you can type a special character such as “üéå«»ƒ®©™”≠≤≥° by holding down the Option key.
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This page tells you how to modifify Mac OS X's keybidings (globally), so that you can design your own Option+«key» to type various unicode characters.įor HTML version with colors and links, see:
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