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And here I was wondering for ages now, who in his right mind would have chosen the incredibly cumbersome to type triple backticks combo as delimiters for code sections in markdown...
And now this article just told me that the backtick is just another normal key outside of Germany...
But serious question: How do you type characters with the back accent above them? Or you just don't?
On US English keyboards, there isn't a universal, standard way to do it at the keyboard level.
I use Linux, and bind my Menu key on my keyboard to Compose. With Compose, I can tap "Compose-backtick-e" and get "è".
Emacs has its own input methods, as do other environments.