As I ramp up my Portuguese language learning I want to start writing in it more as well. That is beyond the stuff I’m doing in my language apps and in my classes. For both of those I am basically using the iOS Portuguese/English combined keyboard or hand writing the lesson homework out. When on a Mac I can use the same techniques that I had back when I studied Spanish several decades ago, which go back to the 1980s. How to type foreign characters, accent marks on letters, et cetera on my Linux machine (my primary desktop) was less clear to me. I was originally thinking of switching to a Portuguese key layout but since I mostly type with Dvorak and there is only a standard QWERTY-like layout that seemed less practical. I therefore wondered if there was something like the Mac equivalent of using key sequences to get custom characters. The answer is a big yes!