You can change the keyboard language on a Windows computer by going through the "Time & Language" menu. After you change the keyboard language once, you'll be able to switch between languages ...

On a Mac computer, holding down the 'e' key will produce a similar menu. Once it pops up, hit the number 2 to get an é. On a PC, you hit control + ', and then you hit e, and you'll get é. Simple!

Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer.