What is ` key called?

[MatthewMaes]

It's the opposite of the tilde key and reverse of the ' key (aprostrophie)

thx.

 

[remagavon]

accent I think? Dont know for sure.

 

[quizzelsnatch]

It's called the Anti-Apostrophe...?

 

[Cerb]

Generally it is referred to by the ~ part, a tilde.
Dunno what the ` is.

Edit: hah, Google!
http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html

"spacing grave accent, back apostrophe"

searched for ascii and it was on the 2nd page.

 

[bacillus]

I'm not sure what you actually mean. Could you post the symbol so that we can be sure of what you're talking about?

 

[letter rip]

` = accent grave

 

[hopejr]

Originally posted by: letter rip
` = accent grave

:thumbsup:

 

[imported_Phil]

Console

 

[kranky]

We've always called that the backquote.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

accent grave, but some people call it a tic

 

[saltedeggman]

always thought its a tilde

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Originally posted by: kranky
We've always called that the backquote.

 

[shabby]

The "little thingy" key?

 

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by: saltedeggman
always thought its a tilde

 

[HardcoreRobot]

~ is the tilde
` is the backquote (as i know it)

 

[coejus]

Originally posted by: Dopefiend
Console

:thumbsup:

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: hopejr

Originally posted by: letter rip
` = accent grave

:thumbsup:

:thumbsup:

That is it. Shift - ` is the tilde key (~), but is misdocumented in some gamer manuals.

Hey, at least you do not have a corporate culture that calls the * as 'splat' (or 'display') and @ as 'change'. That relates to airline dumb terminals (computer terminals as opposed to where airplanes stop to pickup passengers.) 'Splat' is at least creative. Does look like what happens after the bug meets the windshield.

 

[corkyg]

Accent Grave for French use. In Spanish it is simply an accent. In Spanish text, it comes as a complete character, i.e,, é, á, ó, ú, í. All of these symbols are in general called diacriticals. Others used in Spanish are ñ, and ü.All of these accented characters have different ASCII codes.

Other diacriticals in other languages are ê, è, and ç. The tail on the c is called a cedilla.

To make these diacriticals on an English language keyboard, just use Microsoft's charmap feature - copy and paste. This has been around since Windows 3.0.

To do that, Start, Run, and type charmap - hit enter. It will pop up the chart for the font you are using.