The table below lists the keystrokes needed to produce various special characters with the Italian versions of the Apple keyboard and the Apple Pro Keyboard, when using the Italian layout with Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.0.
| Character | Italia Keyboard | Italia Apple Pro Keyboard |
| Ã | option-shift-Q | option-8 and then shift-A |
| Ã | option-S (with caps lock pressed) | option-9 and then shift-A |
| à | option-shift-C | option-ì and then shift-A |
| Ã | option-A (with caps lock pressed) | option-U and then shift-A |
| Ã | option-D (with caps lock pressed) | option-N and then shift-A |
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| Ã | option-E (with caps lock pressed) | option-8 and then shift-E |
| Ã | option-shift-E | option-9 and then shift-E |
| à | option-shift-B | option-ì and then shift-E |
| Ã | option-shift-Z | option-U and then shift-E |
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| Ã | option-shift-R | option-8 and then shift-I |
| Ã | option-shift-5 | option-9 and then shift-I |
| à | option-shift-Y | option-ì and then shift-I |
| Ã | option-shift-T | option-U and then shift-I |
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| à | option-é and then shift-O | option-8 and then shift-O |
| Ã | option-shift-0 (zero) | option-9 and then shift-O |
| à | option-shift-9 | option-ì and then shift-O |
| Ã | option-P (with caps lock pressed) | option-N and then shift-O |
| Ã | option-O (with caps lock pressed) | option-U and then shift-O |
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| Ã | option-shift-$ | option-8 and then shift-U |
| Ã | option-shift-I | option-9 and then shift-U |
| à | option-shift-U | option-ì and then shift-U |
| Ã | option-K (with caps lock pressed) | option-U and then shift-U |
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| * | option-G | option-U and then shift-Y |
| ÿ | option-y (with caps lock pressed) | option-U and then Y |
| Ã | option-v (with caps lock pressed) | option-N and then shift-N |
| ñ | option-b (with caps lock pressed) | option-N and then N |