Curly Braces on macbook pro

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Hi, im programming in my macbook pro and it doesnt have a curly brace. how can i program without its hard to copy and paste.

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From the google search it seems a non-US keyboard could be missing the curly braces. It is just with mac or also with PC? I'm appalled at this omission. Programmers in other countries write C/C++ too!

I found a few images of French PC keyboards and some has the braces. Maybe time to get a USB keyboard with these symbols clearly marked.

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Every PC keyboard that I have seen has the { and } available as shift/[ and shift/] but there may be exceptions
What do you get if you use Alt (or Option) and ( simultaneously on the Mac ?

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The first few hits from Google took me to similar solutions - here's an example:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/494659?start=0&tstart=0

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You can also use trigraphs:
??< for { and ??> for }

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KeithRB:
You can also use trigraphs:
??< for { and ??> for }

Just did that and it didn't work.

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Another option would be to install TextExpander. With that you can define a symbol (or keyword) that TextExpander can replace with a curly brace.

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KeithRB:
You can also use trigraphs:

By default gcc ignored trigraphs. I don't think the Arduino IDE gives any means to change the compilation options.