Accent marks on a US keyboard

Hi everyone
I've just bought a new MacBook. I ordered it with a US keyboard, because i'm a software developer, and an US layout is the best thing for me. It will be delivered to me in 3 or 4 days
I was wondering if i can write letters with accent marks (like à,ò,è,ì), even with the new computer...
Do you know some ways to solve this issue?
Thx

Go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources and check "Keyboard and Character Viewer". Then, when you select "Show Keyboard Viewer" from the menu bar, you will be able to see all characters that you can type. You can select "Show Character Viewer" for the other 60,000 characters you can't type.
For the diacritical marks, use the option key:
cédille ⌥ c
accent grave ⌥ `
accent aigu ⌥ e
umlaut ⌥ u
circonflexe ⌥ i
tilde ⌥ n

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