Does anyone know how to type the backward apostrophe (`) on the iPhone keyboard? I expected to find it by holding down either the tilde (~) or the apostrophe (').
Is your iPhone updated to software 1.1.2? If so, you should see those accent letter keys when you press and hold down on letters that commonly have accents. It can take a couple of seconds for those accented letters to pop up.
Actually I need the backward apostrophe all by itself. Depending on your keyboard, you may find it below the tilde symbol. I displayed it in my original post as (`).
I posted about this a while back, too. It's called the Grave Accent, and sure enough, it's missing from the iPhone keyboard. The silly thing is they thought to include the non-standard bullet symbol, but forgot an actual keyboard key.
I need the character for my company's WiFi key, so until they add it to the keyboard, I'm stuck without WiFi while at work.
Related: It seems to have the closing curly double-quote, but not the opening one.
The real issue is the lack of certain ASCII symbols, any one of which could be used in a password someplace. I believe the missing ones include at least `, \, and |, but a full list would be useful to have. The total ASCII (besides the alphabet and numbers) is as follows:
Well, both \ and | appear in the "123" keyboard if you press the "#+=" button, along with curly braces, the euro symbol, the pound, symbol and a bunch of others. But I can't find the ` key. Of the symbols you listed, the ONLY one I haven't found is the ` key!
Technically, the grave accent mark isn't the same thing as the backward apostrophe, though it could be used as a decent substitute. I recently came across a need for this when typing Hawaiian words and island names. It's called an okina. Not something that is needed often, to be sure, but still.
Though I am a
stickler for grammar and punctuation, I always allow leeway (for myself and others) for accents, apostrophes, and the like when composing SMS and e-mail messages. I have found that even if I take the time to compose correctly, how it displays is entirely dependent on the end user's settings. Thus, I tend to not spend extra time with tildes, etc.
Note to the person who thought an apostrophe appears above an "e." Apostrophes and accent marks are not the same. An apostrophe indicates letters missing, whereas an accent mark indicates emphasis or pronunciation.