[Kenji]

Speaking of multilinguals - note that Swiss people actually need capslock to type things like 'Ö' because if you press SHIFT + 'ö' then you get 'é' on a Swiss layout (well, I guess you could type '¨' first and then 'O', that also assembles to 'Ö'). Gotta accomodate for both German and French. Just a bit of trivia you might not have known.

[mxfh]

Try the US-International Layout on US-QWERTY. It works well with German and French as secondary languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#US-International

The Windows version makes more sense to me, but I'm getting used to the Mac one too.

[ucs]

Indeed. On my bog standard US+International layout I can simply do:

AltGr + e = é

AltGr + p = ö

Adding Shift to the mix produces É and Ö, respectively, as one would expect.