The point about using accents here is that, while accented letters can easily be typed on some keyboards, or copy-and-pasted from text elsewhere, not everybody will actually be able to see them correctly; it depends to some extent on browsers, character-sets, fonts installed and so on. In the past, too, revisions of the DT and Forum have caused accented characters to display in some very peculiar ways; this is because of the way they were originally posted. The only reliable, consistent and long-term way to provide such characters here is by using the appropriate html codes. It may seem over-complicated to begin with, but that's the nature of the beast; actually it's very easy to learn the codes for most accented characters (though also very easy to type them wrongly of course).