Accented letters

I was recently in my company UK office and I was trying to show the designer how to use the keyboard shortcut for accented characters. But when I held down the "E" key, for example, there was no pop-up window that showed the different selections. Is there a diffenent function on the UK keyboard. They were running the latest version of Lion.

US and British keyboards are different, go to System Prefs>Character viewer or Keyboard Preferences and adjust things as you need to.

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