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What are accent keys on keyboards?

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The only common accent on most US keyboards is the grave/tilde* key at upper left (above the Tab). This can apply these marks which are used in non-English languages.

*The non-superscripted tilde is called a "twiddle" and is used in mathematical equivalence equations.

(see the related link for information on typing accented or Unicode letters)

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