[OS X Emacs] How to enter accented characters on US keyboard?

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    Jean-Christophe> There is an option to use the Option key as the Mac
    Jean-Christophe> option key and Esc as the Meta key.

    Jean-Christophe> Then you can do all you want with the accented
    Jean-Christophe> characters.

Thanks.  That worked fine for the simple case I had.

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