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The tilde character is obtained with (Shift+`) then space. In Linux-based systems, the euro symbol is typically mapped to Alt+5 instead of Alt+U, the tilde acts as a normal key, and several accented letters from other European languages are accessible through combinations with left Alt. Polish letters are also accessible by using the compose key.
On Apple Macintosh operating systems (including Mac OS X), it can be typed by pressing and holding the Option key and then typing N, followed by typing either N or n. On the iPhone and iPad , which use the Apple iOS operating system, the ñ is accessed by holding down the n key, which opens a menu (on an English-language keyboard).
The US International layout changes the ` (grave), ~ (tilde), ^ , " (double quote, to make diaeresis), and ' (apostrophe, to make acute accent) keys into dead keys for producing accented characters: thus for example ' (release) a will produce á. The US International layout also uses the right alt (AltGr) as a modifier to enter special characters.
IBM states that AltGr is an abbreviation for alternate graphic. [3] [4]Sun Microsystems keyboard, which labels the key as Alt Graph. A key labelled with some variation of "Alt Graphic" was on many computer keyboards before the Windows international layouts.
Apple keyboards designed for Mac OS X have two language input keys: alphanumeric (英数) and kana (かな). The keyboards for NEC PC-9800 series, which was dominant in Japan during the 1980s and early 1990s, have three language input keys: kana, NFER (no transfer, same as non-conversion), XFER (transfer, same as conversion).
As of Unicode version 16.0, there are 155,063 characters with code points, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets.This article includes the 1,062 characters in the Multilingual European Character Set 2 subset, and some additional related characters.
In the Spanish dead tilde input, ⇧ Shift+` will produce the caret (^) dead tilde, which can be combined by pressing s, g, h, j and c to type ŝ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ and ĉ, respectively and ⇧ Shift+ç and u will produce ŭ. That will work also with uppercase letters so ⇧ Shift+ç and ⇧ Shift+u will produce Ŭ.
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"). ...