UK Extended Layout
Install the United Kingdom Extended keyboard layout. This supports pressing AltGr+a key with an accent-like character on it as a 'dead key' - press another letter to add that accent to that letter. In addition, just pressing AltGr+a vowel gives you the acute-accent version of that vowel (plus also w and y which are used in Welsh).
The back-tick key ` becomes a dead key without requiring shifts. If you need to actually type this as a programmer, just hit space afterward.
The only annoying part is that Windows tracks keyboard layout per program, so if you have more than one layout installed you have to check which one is selected for every new program you run.
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