International Character issue on Mac

The method for typing international characters on mac is to hold down the letter on the keyboard, and a bubble will pop up with the various accent choices. This doesn't work well in musescore, as holding the key just repeatedly types the letter or number. There are usually four or five before the bubble pops up, and musescore also captures the number typed to choose the accent, so the end result is something like this: eeee2é

This makes typing lyrics and score information in other languages incredibly difficult. This is the only app on my mac that has this behavior.