"Special Characters" Accent Marks delete letter

Hello fellow Pages users,
I can't quite figure out how to solve a little problem I'm experiencing in Pages. In a text document, I am trying to put an accent mark over a letter (like the diacritical marks one finds over letters in dictionaries to help with pronunciation). I highlight the letter I want to accent, and then I select "Special Characters" from the Edit menu. In the "Character Palette," I select the accent mark I want to use (which is listed under "Punctuation"). But when I select "Insert," the accent mark replaces the letter I want to accent! All I have left is an accent mark on the document, which is useless without the letter it is supposed to accent!
I was wondering whether anyone has encountered this problem (if it is a problem--maybe I'm just going about this the wrong way) and whether there is a workaround. Thank you very much for your time; please let me know if I need to clarify anything.
Kind regards,
Chris
P.S. I could just use Microsoft Word, but (1) since my computer is fairly new, I don't have Word at the moment and (2) I would like to learn how to do this in Pages, if it is possible. Please forgive me if this topic has already been covered; I tried to "search" for this topic, but had trouble isolating this specific problem in the Discussions.

Hello Starfighter
The characters you are selecting from the Punctuation section of the Character Pallette are separate characters - they don't overlay other characters. What you need to do is select a Latin font and pick your character with the accent from there.
It might be simpler for you to use the keyboard viewer instead. When you hold down the ⌥ key you will notice that several of the keys on the keyboard appear orange. This is because they are designed to work in combination with another keystroke to input an accented character e.g. The sequence ⌥ u e will produce the character ë.
I hope that helps.

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