if you click on the file menu the last option is special characters

when you select this the character palette is supposed to pop up so you can add special characters.

If it does not your mac book has an installation error and you have to do the fix as described in the link as the end of my answer

another way to get to the same place is

go to system preferences and then select international

click on the input tab and then select the tick box "show input menu on tool bar"

now next to the battery on the top right of the screen there will be a flag of your country click on that and it should give you the choice of keyboard helper and special pallet either of these will let you enter special characters


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these instructions are only if you don't see the options in the input menu


If like mine it does not give you these options you have to enable them

Issue or symptom
Keyboard Viewer, Character Palette may not appear in the Input menu or in International preferences in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. This may occur on some Macs that shipped with Leopard pre-installed.

Products affected

* Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard


Solution

use this workaround: found here

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307354




I know its complicated but its the best I can do