left-quote ( ` ) on International keyboards [Prothon]

[Mark Hahn]

Christophe Cavalaria wrote:

> Mark Hahn wrote:
>
>> Can users with international keyboards tell me if they have problems
>> typing
>> the left-quote ( ` ) character?  It isn't used much in Python but we
>> are thinking of giving it a slightly more important role in Prothon.
>> (I'm not going to say what that role is here to avoid starting
>> another 300 message thread like I did last time :-)  If you are
>> curious you can go to the Prothon mailing lists at
>> http://prothon.org).
>
> For French keyboards, it's "Right ALT + 7" sometimes followed by a
> space ( yeah, sometimes it's a deadkey like ^ and " are )

What does deadkey mean?