The accents on the e letter are used to change the sound-values of the letter.īelow has more stuff about these characters including shortcuts to type them on the keyboard, ALT codes, and very useful instructions to get any e with accent mark on MS Word, Google Docs, and more. To print ' ' ', you need to press Alt Gr+ Shift+ '. To print an ' ' ', you need to press Alt Gr+ ' ( Alt Gr is the right Alt key)ĭouble quote (' ' ', Shift+ ') is replaced by (dead) diaeresis: Shift+ ' followed by o prints 'ö'. Tilde (' ~ ', Shift+ `): Shift+ ` followed by Shift+ n will print 'Ñ'.Īpostrophe aka quote (' ' ', ') is replaced by (dead) acute (' ´ '): Pressing ' followed by i will print 'í'. Grave aka backtick (' ` ', `): ` followed by e will get you 'è'

To print '^' either press Shift+ 6 twice or Shift+ 6 followed by Space.

Other combinations like Shift+ 6 followed by d will print nothing. Similarly for e, i, o and u.Īlt Gr+ n prints 'ñ', Alt Gr+ Shift+ n prints 'Ñ'.Īll other alpha-numeric and symbol keys also print additional characters, when combined with Alt Gr and Alt Gr+ Shift.ĭead keys: these keys do not generate a character on their own, instead output depends on the next key that is pressed:Ĭircumflex (' ^ ', Shift+ 6): Pressing Shift+ 6 followed by a will print as 'â'. It can also be combined with Shift to write yet another set of characters.Īlt Gr+ a prints 'á', Alt Gr+ Shift+ a prints 'Á'. The right Alt key is now Alt Gr, which acts much like the Shift key in that it generates different characters, when pressed in conjunction with other keys ( ISO_Level3_Shift). The intl variant is mostly identical to the standard us layout, with some key differences: See the Debian Wiki for more information. You can also run dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration service keyboard-setup restart. To set it permanently on Debian, you have to modify /etc/default/keyboard and set the variables XKBLAYOUT and XKBVARIANT accordingly: XKBLAYOUT='us' You can temporarily (until logout) set it with setxkbmap us -variant intl I would suggest using the international ( intl) variant of the us layout instead of some complex workaround.

Key binding for e with an accent mark