One thing I really like about Apple keyboards is that they make it really easy to type a lot of accented letters and characters, using just the ALT key.
Usually [with UK layout anyway] ALT+E followed by the vowel you need will give you an accent on that vowel; acute on E, umlaut on O and U, etc.
I use Irish layout which is the same as UK but has the additional advantage [for the languages I need to type] that I can type acute accented vowels with just ALT+vowel: áéíóú ÁÉÍÓÚ Thus saving an extra keystroke. Some other handy ones:
ALT + s gives you German ß
ALT + n followed by another n gives you Spanish ñ
ALT + c followed by another c gives you French ç
ALT + ! gives you Spanish ¡
[oddly, on my keyboard ALT + ? doesn't give the Spanish upside down question mark, but a division sign]
Usually [with UK layout anyway] ALT+E followed by the vowel you need will give you an accent on that vowel; acute on E, umlaut on O and U, etc.
I use Irish layout which is the same as UK but has the additional advantage [for the languages I need to type] that I can type acute accented vowels with just ALT+vowel: áéíóú ÁÉÍÓÚ Thus saving an extra keystroke. Some other handy ones:
ALT + s gives you German ß
ALT + n followed by another n gives you Spanish ñ
ALT + c followed by another c gives you French ç
ALT + ! gives you Spanish ¡
[oddly, on my keyboard ALT + ? doesn't give the Spanish upside down question mark, but a division sign]
ALT + g gives you copyright symbol ©
ALT + r gives you registered trademark symbol ®
ALT + k gives you a degrees symbol ˚
ALT + t gives you square root symbol √
ALT + y gives you a Yen [?] symbol ¥
ALT + f gives you a florin symbol ƒ
ALT + h gives you a mu symbol µ
ALT + l gives you pi π
etc. etc.