Alternative characters in Lion

holding a key to get a choice of alternative characters in Lion can be useful but would be much more useful if customisable - for example I'm in Turkey and if I hold 's' down I don't get the Turkish soft s - 'ş' - is there a fix?

I checkmarked the Turkish layout in System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources, then selected it in the Input menu (the one in the main menubar showing a flag as an icon, over in the right-hand area).
When I pressed and held the "s" key, I got this -
which shows that character as the first choice.
Note - I had to also open Keyboard Viewer in order to find where the "s" key had been moved to.

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