> I work around this by cut & pasting single characters around to fix up the missing accent characters. Let me save you some time in the future. You did not id

> I work around this by cut & pasting single characters around to fix up the missing accent characters. Let me save you some time in the future. You did not identify the OS and language/script you have trouble with, so my answer has to be kinda generic. First have a look whether your OS keyboard settings or a third party provides an en_US-101 compatible logical layout that adds more accented characters (typically accessed with right Alt¹) or extra modifier keys² (in addition to acute, grave, tilde), then install it and memorise the characters you need. Oftentimes, this is easy because it's mnemonic, e.g. AltGr+l → ł AltGr+d → ð AltGr+o → ø dead_tilde N → Ñ dead_double_acute o → ő dead_circumflex dead_hook O → Ổ If that's not sufficient or too cumbersome, look into compose key³. That system is user extensible, more powerful because it provides not just accented characters, and to the most part has better mnemonics; e.g.: compose U G → Ğ compose " y → ÿ compose a e → æ compose t , → ț compose v z → ž compose I . → İ compose u o → ů compose c | → ¢ compose . . → … ¹ http://enwp.org/AltGr_key http://enwp.org/AltGr_key ² http://enwp.org/Dead_key http://enwp.org/Dead_key ³ http://enwp.org/Compose_key http://enwp.org/Compose_key