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As far as I know and have been used, that's the way the Danish keyboard layout works.
To test it I also changed the layout to Danish in three machines, Windows 7 & Windows 8 virtual machines and this laptop I am using now running Windows 8.1.
It works exactly as I have described: First press of accent (´) inputs nothing on screen, it remains in buffer waiting the next key to be pressed. Accent + E gives É as it is supposed to do, accent + SPACE gives a single accent.
I do not understand your issue. Writing Danish you do not need single accent character. Writing in another language you can switch to respective layout.
Kari