I would like to use Quest to make a text adventures in French and Spanish (I'm a foreign language teacher). The main text of pages work fine for this, but the link text does not allow for accents or other special characters. Does anyone know of a way around this? Is there another program might be better for this? Thanks.

What link text do you mean?

Try using the HTML entity code. They are written as an ampersand, the letter, the accent, and a semicolon, so for example:

The caf&‌eacute;

Full list here:

http://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/codehtml/