Customize Mac OS X Keyboard Layout

Question

I need to know if there is a way to remap certain characters to certain other keys in Mac OSX (by modifying a file or something).

I want to try out TextMate, but whenever I press Control + Alt + , (which is my sequence for ^<), it prints out this: "—"

Any way I could remap that somewhere else?

By the way, I'm using a mac mini on Snow Leopard with a windows usb keyboard, and my current keyboard layout is French Canadian CSA.

Answer 1

You have answered your question, but as a generic tool, Ukulele for OS X is a full unicode-aware keyboard map editor:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=ukelele

Answer 2

While looking for a character to place into Illustrator today, I noticed that the Keycaps character map utility is no longer to be found in OS X Panther (10.3). Poking around in Google, I found that this function is now handled through the Keyboard Viewer palette. getting this to show up takes a few steps though.

First, open System Preferences and show the International settings.

Second, select the Input Menu tab and check the Keyboard Palette checkbox. Check the menu box that reads "Show input menu in menu bar".

Now you will notice an icon in your system's top menu bar, probably the U.S. flag. This the input menu. When you click on the menu you can select "Show Keyboard Viewer" and the palette will open, allowing you to select a font and hold down Option, Shift, Command keys to view keyboard combinations.