The ` key
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent
Wikipedia Wrote:Many earlier (pre 1985) computer displays and printers rendered the ASCII apostrophe as a typographic apostrophe, and rendered the ASCII grave accent ( ` ) U+0060 as a matching left single quotation mark. This allowed a more typographic appearance of text: ``I can't'' would appear as ‘‘I can’t’’ on these systems. This can still be seen in many documents prepared at that time.
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The ` key - by Mira - 2011-01-01, 06:20 PM
The ` key - by yoosergio - 2011-01-01, 06:25 PM
The ` key - by Dual - 2011-01-01, 06:27 PM
The ` key - by Random_Overlord - 2011-01-01, 06:28 PM
The ` key - by Mira - 2011-01-01, 06:29 PM
The ` key - by Felicitates - 2011-01-01, 06:31 PM
The ` key - by Mira - 2011-01-01, 06:34 PM
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The ` key - by Sorien - 2011-01-02, 01:07 AM
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