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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Is that a keyboard/language thing, or do you have a program running to do those conversions?
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Originally Posted by Bertrand
You can do it by default on some keyboards (at least french keyboards).
Same thing for ë / Ä / Ü, etc.
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That's called "dead key": you press the key, nothing happens, you press another key and the second letter appears modified by the first key. To get a bare ^ or ` or ~ you press the dead key and then the space. In mechanical typewriters the "dead key" printed the accent, but didn't advance the carriage, so you could immediately press the letter and it would be printed below the accent.
You may be able to select some kind of "English + dead keys" keyboard layout in your OS.
And there's probably some kind of "character map" utility in your OS to select all kind of characters, including astrological symbols, chinese ideograms, etc.