ì, ò, ù, and their respective capital forms. On British and American keyboards, the grave accent is a key by itself. This is primarily used to actually type the stand-alone character, though some layouts (such as US International or UK extended) may use it as a dead key to modify the following letter. (With these layouts, to get a character such as à, the user can type and then the vowel. For example, to make à, the user can type and then .) In territories where the diacritic is used routinely, the precomposed characters are provided as standard on national keyboards. On a Mac, to get a character such as à, the user can type and then the vowel. For example, to make à, the user can type and then , and to make À, the user can type and then . In iOS and most Android keyboards, combined characters with the grave accent are accessed by holding a finger on the vowel, which opens a menu for accents. For example, to make à, the user can tap and hold and then tap or slide to . Mac versions of OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) or newer share similar functionality to iOS; by pressing and holding a vowel key to open an accent menu, the user may click on the grave accented character or type the corresponding number key displayed. On a system running the X Window System, to get a character such as à, the user should press followed by , then the vowel. The compose key on modern keyboards is usually mapped to a key or . References External links Latin-script diacritics Greek-script diacritics Cyrillic-script diacritics