Special characters in Lion

The ease of use of special characters has been a major strength of the Mac OS since the very foundation. Now I find in Lion I hvae to do a very Windoze-like thing and open a Special Characters dialog and search for the character I want from a confusing jumble of them. The use of apple-e for an accent egu was intuitie for me the first time I discovered it, and nearly all accents and special characters were easy for me to figure out without resorting to a separate window. (http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3871) It wasn't broke--why did they fix it?

KingTor wrote:
The use of apple-e for an accent egu
It has never been apple-e. It has always been alt/option-e. Does that really not work for you now? It certainly does for me.

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