How to add accent marks?

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.

There are various key combinations and ways to do it.

How to type accents, emoji, and symbols on your Mac - Apple Support

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.

From your Safari menu bar click Edit > Emoji & Symbols.