How to type with accent?

Try this widget.

 

You type option-u, then type e. Or any other letter with an umlaut. You don't press all three keys together; you type option-u first, then the e. You could put "Keyboard viewer" into your menubar, to do that start System Preferences, type in "key" in the search box and it will show you what to do. Keyboard viewer will show you everything that is available directly. If you press option, it will show you all "dead keys" like the option-u that can be combined with other letters; there are about six of them.

 

Just to be clear, you should be typing option+u together, then e. I've just tried this in a few different programs and it's working for me.

 

For any change in character is it usually a option+(key) command. Right now I am taking an online Spanish course and have to use accents all of the time and the option+(key) works all the time

option+e= í, é, á
option+n= ñ
option+u= ü, ë, ä
option+i= î, ê â

So for those to work you hit the option+(key) and a little symbol will appear above were you are going to thype the accented character, all you have to do after that is type that character.

Heres a link: http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codemac.html

 

open "international" from prefs.
in the bottom left corner check the "show input menu in menu bar"

then when you want an extended character click on the flag in your menu bar and hit "show keyboard viewer"
it will highlight the option key alternatives when you press the option key.
the keyboard viewer will float over all other screens so you have continuous access.

there is a different set of key combinations for US and US extended, which you can switch between.

 

How to type with accent?

Hang out in Brooklyn for a year

 

I'm so glad that I'm not the only person who thought this!