The Keyboard Viewer reveals what you can type on the currently selected keyboard layout.

OS X uses the Keyboard Viewer palette to mirror all your keyboard entries. When you press those modifier keys, you'll see exactly how they're mapped and being interpreted.

Here’s how it looks to pull up the keyboard viewer to see the special characters and learn the keyboard shortcuts via System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources: ...

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The keyboard viewer can be used to troubleshoot keyboard hardware. If you do not have the viewer available in the input menu, go to the "Language & Text" system preferences (called "International ...

Click the icon followed by Show Keyboard Viewer. The new window will show the typical keyboard layout based on the country set up within the Input Sources section of the Keyboard settings.

While the exact cause is unclear, users have linked the problem to another issue associated with the "International" system preferences, in which the keyboard viewer and character palette do not ...

Yesterday I opened the Keyboard Viewer to try and trace an issue with keystroke translation over VPN. Ever since, it's been popping up uninvited almost whenever I am asked for a Keychain password ...

Some tweaks, like the OS's handy and intuitive visual keyboard shortcut viewer being replaced by the above mess, have been pretty universally panned. Thankfully, there's a Chrome flag to revert ...