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Alternate Character Sets in OS X

Have you every run into a situation where you needed an alternate letter for say foreign words such as niña or exposé? Those special letters can be a pain in the butt to get into your document or email or whatever, that is unless you are a OS X Lion user. In Lion simply hold down the letter in question for a few seconds and a context menu will appear over the letter with the alternate forms. Just pick the one you need and viola! It works in just about everything. I even used this feature when typing this post.