Accented characters

[Rosalind Mitchell]

From time to time I want to be able to type words and short passages in 
French, Italian, Polish and perhaps other languages.  To do this I need to be 
able to access characters with accents.  I find it unutterably tedious to go 
fishing for them in KCharSelect every time I want to use one of these 
characters, and I don't want to have squillions of alternative keyboard 
layouts and sticky labels all over my keys (I once used an internet café in 
Prague and it did my head in.)  

There has to be a better way, even if only for the basic accented letters in 
French, surely?  Using key sequences?  

Can anybody help?

Rosie
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