Adding punctuation marks above text letters

I frequently use the Welsh language in my letters and e-mails and have not yet found a way of placing the circumflex(^) as a punctuation mark over certain vowels, which can convey a quite different meaning to a word if added or omitted.There is a Welsh option in the Keyboard viewer, but this seems no different to the British version.
The mark(^) is, of course, available on the 6 key uppercase, but how do I place it OVER the vowel in question?

Glad of any suggestions,
Diolch yn fawr!
Hen Gymro.

iMac 20in dualcore, Mac OS X (10.4.10), Just moved up from eMac

Posted on Oct 7, 2007 5:52 AM

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Oct 7, 2007 8:55 AM in response to SteveLamb0

Caution

It's not sure than a character available in TexEdit may be used in AppleWorks.

TextEdit is Unicode aware while AppleWorks is not.

The chars with a circumflex usable in AppleWorks are:

 â Ê ê Ô ô Û û Î î

Here are some which aren't:

Ĉ ĉ Ĥ ĥ Ĵ ĵ Ŝ ŝ Ŵ ŵ Ŷ ŷ

For my own use, I built a table of favourites for the Character Palette tool.
In this one, I put the "accented" chars usable in AppleWorks.

User uploaded file

So I may enter them by a simple drag and drop.
It's a pity but with Mac OS 10.4.x, the good old double click is no longer usable to enter a char from the palette when AppleWorks is active.
Some one decided to disable it because some users complained because double clicking an Unicode character gave an odd insertion.
This is what in France we describe with the formula (throw away the baby with the bath's water).

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 7 octobre 2007 17:51:57)

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Adding punctuation marks above text letters

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