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a dedicated key is not needed for each possible combination of a diacritic and a letter, but rather only one dead key for each diacritic, in addition to the normal base letter keys.

For example, if a keyboard mapping (such as US international) has a dead key for the circumflex, , the character can be generated by first pressing and then .

Usually, the diacritic itself can be generated as a free-standing

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