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With US-international, the ~ key is a dead key: pressing that key and then a letter produces the tilde-accented form of that letter. (For example, ~ a produces ã.) With this setting active, an ASCII tilde can be inserted with the dead key followed by the space bar, or alternatively by striking the dead key twice in a row.
This page lists codes for keyboard characters, the computer code values for common characters, such as the Unicode or HTML entity codes (see below: Table of HTML values"). There are also key chord combinations, such as keying an en dash ('–') by holding ALT+0150 on the numeric keypad of MS Windows computers.
Keyboard shortcuts make it easier and quicker to perform some simple tasks in your AOL Mail. Access all shortcuts by pressing shift+? on your keyboard. All shortcuts are formatted for Windows computers, but most will work on a Mac by substituting Cmd for Ctrl or Option for Alt. General keyboard shortcuts
ñ has its own key in the Spanish and Latin American keyboard layouts (see the corresponding sections at keyboard layout and Tilde#Role of mechanical typewriters). The following instructions apply only to English-language keyboards. On Android devices, holding N or n down on the keyboard makes entry of Ñ and ñ possible.
COMMAND. ACTION. Ctrl/⌘ + C. Select/highlight the text you want to copy, and then press this key combo. Ctrl/⌘ + F. Opens a search box to find a specific word, phrase, or figure on the page
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
On IBM PC compatible personal computers from the 1980s, the BIOS allowed the user to hold down the Alt key and type a decimal number on the keypad. It would place the corresponding code into the keyboard buffer so that it would look (almost) as if the code had been entered by a single keystroke.
Tilde (symbol) Tilde (diacritic) Wave dash Double tilde ̃: Tilde (diacritic) Circumflex, Grave: Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic ™ Trademark symbol: Registered trade mark _ Underscore | Vertical bar: also known as a 'pipe' / Virgule: Slash: Virgule (disambiguation)