Weird iPhone / iPad keyboard glitch: no grave accent (`) character

[Tofer]

Here's a weird one. I let a friend borrow my iPad, and he said "I can't type in my password into GMail." I asked what character, and he said, "the backtick" (also called the 'grave accent'). The character looks like this:

`

After a bit of googling, it seems that the iPhone/iPad keyboard doesn't have the ability to input that character, which is odd, because it is ASCII and (actually on every real English keyboard). You can, however, copy/paste it from a web page, if necessary.

-Tofer