How to add accent marks?

Hi. I am taking an online Spanish course and need to access the letters with accent marks but holding the letter down no longer brings up the accented letter menu, it just repeats the letter. aaaaaaaaaaaa

This worked for me just 8 weeks ago but now it has disappeared.

option/alt with letter does not work either, i get this

å ´´ˆø¨

I have searched online and cannot find a fix.

I am extra confused because this was just working during my last class and I don't know what could have changed it. I have OS X yosemite if that makes a difference.

Thank you.

Posted on Feb 23, 2018 9:54 AM

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Posted on Feb 23, 2018 11:04 AM

shannon3hh wrote:


option/alt with letter does not work either, i get this

å ´´ˆø¨


option/alt should work fine, but it is different than that:


option e, then e produces é


http://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/mac/codemac/


For the popup menu, go to system prefs/keyboard/keyboard and play with the Repeat and Delay settings. Also try adding a spanish keyboard to your input sources.

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Feb 23, 2018 11:04 AM in response to shannon3hh

shannon3hh wrote:


option/alt with letter does not work either, i get this

å ´´ˆø¨


option/alt should work fine, but it is different than that:


option e, then e produces é


http://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/mac/codemac/


For the popup menu, go to system prefs/keyboard/keyboard and play with the Repeat and Delay settings. Also try adding a spanish keyboard to your input sources.

Feb 23, 2018 10:22 AM in response to shannon3hh

What software products are you using? It just worked fine in TextEdit and Pages for me. On some software products, you have to use "Insert Special Character". Safari seems to work fine: ä ë ï. You can also load a Spanish keyboard. (You may want to use the Spanish keyboard from the keyboard viewer since that will show the correct letters.8


You probably also want to select Unicode as a file option. Depending on how a web page is set up, you may have a number of other issues.

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