Whether you’re doing some Spanish homework or exchanging jokes with your French-speaking amoureux, nailing spelling in a foreign language is pretty important if you’re trying to get your point across ...

Unlike accent marks which simply guide pronunciation, putting a tilde on top of the letter n in Spanish actually forms a different letter, called eñe. The eñe appears in all sorts of common Spanish ...

A year ago or so I was bitten by the keyboarding bug. In addition to spending a bit too much money on a mechanical keyboard and writing a few too many words about the process, I also started paying ...

There are times when you’ll need to type a character that isn’t displayed on your keyboard, be it a letter with an accent, the degree symbol, or a currency symbol. Special characters are common in ...

Some keyboards lack a dedicated key for the backslash, also known as reverse solidus [\] on a Mac keyboard. In this article, we will show you how to enter the backslash on your Mac keyboard, with ...

You can add special characters while typing on a computer using keyboard shortcuts or a special pop-up window. Both Windows and Mac computers have the same special characters, but have different ways ...

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