VS Code: convert accented characters to HTML automatically

Editing an HTML file in Visual Studio Code, when I type école I want it to be replaced with école without doing any other action. What is the best solution?

Well, I'll offer this as a solution but you would have to do a lot of work to set it up first. But since no one else has offered anything, how about snippets:

"Print e-acute": {
    "prefix": "é",
    "body": [
        "é"
    ],
    "description": "replace é with é"
}

I've tested it and it works. But there are a lot of html character entity references to input. If you were really good you could make a program to grab the list and create the snippets for entities 161-255 automatically. I'm surprised there isn't an extension already available for this.