Daniel Ehrenberg wrote at last:
On a related note, how do you make a e with an accent
mark?
See [[Wikipedia:Special characters]].
The "Entity" column in the table (with all the "&...;" stuff)
shows how to create special characters using only ASCII input.
Why is this a good idea? (I claim that it is on [[en:]].)
Because some people have browsers that mangle anything else.
(Anthere's browser famously mangles non-Latin-1 characters --
and no insult meant to you, Anthere, you're just a well known example --
and I have occasionally seen even Latin-1 but non-ASCII characters mangled
by various anonymous editors.) In particular, "é" is "é".
You would want to input the "é" directly on, say, [[fr:]];
how to do that depends on your browser, operating system, and keyboard.
-- Toby