I write norwegian on a US MacBook just fine. All the weird characters are available by pressing the Option key. When I first got the laptop I switched layouts

I write norwegian on a US MacBook just fine. All the weird characters are available by pressing the Option key. When I first got the laptop I switched layouts between coding and writing mails, but after a while I found that learning the key combos for a few letters was easier for me than switching between completely different layouts.