I learned how to do this; ā

[LakeArenal]

Taking Spanish partly on line. I would get answers wrong without é. or ñ

Finally I found out:

Hold your finger on the letter you type
a nice menu of symbols pops up.

I never knew this. Hope it helps someone else.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Great information!

Tried it (on my IPad) and it works! Wow, I never knew this. Thanks, Lake!

[LakeArenal]

3. Supposed to spell yes with symbols. 🙄

[Clash City Rocker]

2. Wow, I just tried it. You're right!

Nice find, thanks for sharing it.

[Hoyt]

4. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA is what I get when I hold my finger on letter A.

[LakeArenal]

5. Try lower case.

[Hoyt]

6. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Obviously I am doing something wrong.

[Clash City Rocker]

9. Are you using an iPhone or iPad?

Hold your finger on the letter. Various options will appear above your finger. Without letting your finger off the screen, slide it up to the option you want. For a, I get

à å ā à á â ä æ

[Hoyt]

11. That's the problem, I'm using windows computer. Thanks.

[Clash City Rocker]

12. There are various ways to do it on a Windows computer

Although none are quite as simple as the iPhone / iPad solution.

https://www.theverge.com/22351023/windows-pc-special-characters-how-to

[dogknob]

13. You have to use Character Map or have the numeric code memorized

While holding down alt, type in the code on you numeric keypad. The only one I have committed to memory is the emdash [alt + 0151].

Perhaps you could use character map to make yourself a cheat-sheet.

[ironflange]

10. I only get that too

Good thing Character Map is still around.

Edit: seems to be an Apple thing.

[LakeArenal]

7. just rest your finger. Like changing your emoji people.

[PJMcK]

8. Cool!

Thanks!