Writing special characters

Hello,

I recently got this MacBook Pro and I'm really happy with it, but there's one thing bothering me. I speak some Swedish and because of this, I need to use the characters ä, ö and å. However, writing the å is giving me some problems. According to most sites, I should just press and hold the alt key and then the a, but then I get æ instead of å. I've tried all possible combinations I think, but no way could I write the å. I can use the special character pallet or keep it under cmd + v, but that's not all too handy. So I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I'm new to a Mac, so please explain everything, as I'm used to doing alt + xxx combinations on a pc.

Please note that I have an azerty keyboard.

Thanks in advance and I hope this is not placed in the wrong forum.

Message was edited by: HenriGoelen