I think there's an NVDA addon that handles it like the Jaws command, but I forget what it's called.
Alternatively, if you have a numpad, and numlock is on so it types numbers, you can enter any ascii or unicode character by holding alt, typing the code with the numpad, then releasing alt. I don't have the Unicode memorized for many of these, because I mostly use the Latin-1 codes, which do not agree with Unicode.
So for é, it's alt+130. ç is alt+135. I forget which e is 137 and which is 138. I mostly just try things based on what I remember, then try nearby numbers if I was wrong.
But wait; there's more!
In Word, or at least in older versions, you could enter some accented characters with the ctrl+apostrophe (acute), ctrl+grav (grav), ctrl+semicolon (sedilla), etc, followed by whatever letter you want to put it on. There are several others, but the idea is ctrl+the symbol that looks most like the accent you want. Which is probably not helpful if you don't know what the accents and/or the symbols look like. Circcumflex is like ^, umlaut is two sideways dots, and the closest to that is a colon (two vertical dots), and the tilde is a tilde.
And in HTML, you can use things like é, and there's a way to use the &symbolname; thing for unicode values, but for some bizarre reason I can never remember what it is.
And in Word Pad, pressing alt+x converts whatever's to the left of the cursor to/from the hexadecimal unicode code. So if there are four numbers to the left of the cursor, alt+x replaces them with whatever unicode character that represents. Otherwise, it replaces whatever's there with the hex code.
Whew. Hopefully one of these is good enough. I use the numpad thing, because it works everywhere, and is usually quicker than other methods (though the Jaws/NVDA + 4 list might win in some cases). I use the wordpad trick if the hex is easier to work with than decimal (such as when trying to enter Braille characters).
[edit] Very important thing I left out about the numpad thing. For characters that aren't in ascii/Latin-1, you need to include an extra 0. So to get Yough, you'd type alt+0541, not just alt+541. [/edit]
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