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Dead key

A dead key is a special kind of modifier key on a mechanical typewriter, or computer keyboard, that is typically used to attach a specific diacritic to a base letter. The dead key does not generate a (complete) character by itself, but modifies the character generated by the key struck immediately after. Thus, a dedicated key is not needed for each…

Dead keys on various keyboard layouts, Electronic keyboards & Mechanical typewriters

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Dead keys on various keyboard layouts

US keyboardUS-International keyboard layoutX Window SystemMSXCtrl
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Electronic keyboards

AltGrOptionMapping of the keyboardModeCharacter
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Mechanical typewriters

CarriageAcute accentSpacingOverstruck
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Chained dead keys

UnicodeLatin scriptVietnameseCompose key
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Mechanical typewriters

Electronic keyboards

Chained dead keys

Dead keys on various keyboard layouts

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Dead key

Nodes47
Edges46
Triples45
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.042553
Components1

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Dead key

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related to Dead keys on various keyboard layouts · 22
Dead key → Alternative, AltGr, Control, Ctrl, English, For, In, In Microsoft Word, Keyboards, Macintosh, MSX, Old, On, Option, Option-key, Shift, The, US, US-International, Western European
related to Electronic keyboards · 8
Dead key → AltGr, But, Computers, Each, In, Instead, Option, The
related to Chained dead keys · 7
Dead key → Chaining, For, Latin, Therefore, This, Unicode, Vietnamese
related to Mechanical typewriters · 7
Dead key → As, Due, On, The, This, To, With
is a · 1
Dead key → special kind of modifier key on a mechanical typewriter

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key dead character keyboard keys diacritic generated letter keyboards circumflex followed pressing mechanical modifier computer base altgr option precomposed characters

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dead keyis aspecial kind of modifier key on a mechanical typewriter0.90text
Dead keyrelated to Chained dead keysUnicode0.60section
Dead keyrelated to Chained dead keysLatin0.60section
Dead keyrelated to Chained dead keysVietnamese0.60section
Dead keyrelated to Chained dead keysFor0.60section
Dead keyrelated to Chained dead keysTherefore0.60section
Dead keyrelated to Chained dead keysChaining0.60section
Dead keyrelated to Chained dead keysThis0.60section
Dead keyrelated to Dead keys on various keyboard layoutsEnglish0.60section
Dead keyrelated to Dead keys on various keyboard layoutsThe0.60section
Dead keyrelated to Dead keys on various keyboard layoutsUS0.60section
Dead keyrelated to Dead keys on various keyboard layoutsUS-International0.60section

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