Using , instead of '
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You can't. You type the letter you want with the accent. ie è à ì ò etc..Wow... I feel dumb, how are you supposed to put it above letters you've typed?
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kidding.
I really have no idea and that's why it causes me aggro. Perhaps it's a programming thing?
What do you use ¬ and ¦ for? That whole key is pointless. Apart from ¬_¬
Some of those don't even exist on the US QWERTY, for example.
It's a backtick - sort-of a grave accent without an associated letter, its only common use is to open the console in Half Life 
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#Technical_notes
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#Technical_notes
Wow... I feel dumb
It's just where I've seen it used by people that way on forums and stuff I suppose, it's not something you'd notice with handwriting.
Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú.
Like that perhaps?.....
That's not a grave accentÁ, É, Í, Ó, Ú.
Like that perhaps?.....
Hmm, my keyboard has ¬ ` and | on the top left and ¦ and \ on the bottom left. Thing is, the ¦ on the bottom left is actually mapped to the pipe too - | - so I really don't know ^_^
And Castiel - you're either using a Mac or X Window - or you cheated (in an acute way)
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And Castiel - you're either using a Mac or X Window - or you cheated
Its an acute accent, not a graves one, so I cheated.....
In all seriousness, I'd guess that there a re a lot of keys on the "standard" board that no longer have a function but once did.
With UTF-8/-16 and ISO 8859 (I haven't a clue what the distinction is) - accented letters have their own code, so you type them by using charmap or by memorising their alt codes. I'd guess that when the IBM standard keyboard was first introduced, this wasn't the case and complicated ` sequences had to be used.
Obviously, keyboards aren't only used with idiot-proof user-friendly Windows apps - as I alluded to before, Mac users can use the ` key in combination with "Option-", for example Option-`a for à.
Apparently. I've never been anywhere near a Màc
With UTF-8/-16 and ISO 8859 (I haven't a clue what the distinction is) - accented letters have their own code, so you type them by using charmap or by memorising their alt codes. I'd guess that when the IBM standard keyboard was first introduced, this wasn't the case and complicated ` sequences had to be used.
Obviously, keyboards aren't only used with idiot-proof user-friendly Windows apps - as I alluded to before, Mac users can use the ` key in combination with "Option-", for example Option-`a for à.
Apparently. I've never been anywhere near a Màc
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Never seen it before and it's just weird to do that.
These little things really irritate me... I know a few people who write asked when they mean arsed, and one guy who says aksed instead of asked
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iPhone's autocorrect would fix things if you used a , instead of a `
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I'd normally use '...' to signify that it is something I've said or a paraphrase of anothers words and "..." if it was a direct quotation. Occasionally I don't for one reason or another but that's the usual for me.
"..." if it's a direct quotation.
