Using Acute Accents

Placing a Diacritic Mark Above a Letter in a Name

In yesterday's post, February 28, I reported on Moisés Naím's book titled "The End of Power: "From Boardrooms To Battlefields and Churches To States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used To Be."

Naím's name contains two acute accents or diacritic marks.  How do you place a mark above a letter? In Microsoft Word you highlight the letter go to Insert and click on Symbol. Then you scroll down until you see the letter with the diacritic mark you want, click on that letter and then click on Insert.
Unfortunately there is not that option when writing in Blogger that I have been able to find.

At the time of writing the post I was convinced there was a way to type those diacritic marks. As you can see by my resource list, I tried various suggestions put forth by people supposedly successful in doing so.  I did not meet with success.  One of the suggestions was to write the code for the diacritic mark before the letter.  That did not work.

Then I came across a post that supplied a very simple and practical tip - find the word you need with the diacritic mark in other text and use the copy and paste function.  Well, needless to say, it worked.

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-accents-on-letters-eg-grave-acute
http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/?fa=21
http://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-add-accents-to-letters-without.html
http://elearn.arizona.edu/blogs/MT5_adding_accent_marks.pdf