Entering Turkish Characters in Mac OS X without Changing the Keymap

It is possible to enter some Turkish characters using the English character map in Mac OS X.

• ı : Option + Shift + b
• ü : Option + u, then, u
• ö : Option + u, then, o
• ç : Option + c
• î : Option + i, then i : This is for accented ı's, as in: Rumî.
• â: Option + i, then a : As in kâğıt.

So, in general, for umlauts, you first press Option + u, then the characters for which the umlaut is missing. Similarly, for circumflex (inceltme i$areti), first Option + i, then the letter. Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts that I know of for entering other characters ğ, ş. Also, see Turkish Text Deasciifier. UPDATE: It turns out that there actually is a much better way. Selecting Turkish QWERTY as keyboard will make the keyboard US, and to insert the Turkish equivalents, for example ü instead of u, one has to press the character with the Option (alt) key.