@The Nexerus: People have different habits. I myself tend to use asterisks quite liberally in OoC context (and no, I don't use those as I would italicization). Also underscores in filenames and such, a habit from a time when spaces could not be used in there, and from writing function names in programming (personal preference compared to thisStyleOfNaming)... In other contexts, the accents can also be a handy way to bypass breaking a code, since apostrophes are quite frequently (perhaps even more frequently than the accents) used as functional characters. 

(Layout-wise, for me both are equally accessible - accents are right next to backspace and the apostrophe sits next to enter key.)