How to type Capital AE Ligature
To type Capital AE Ligature (Æ), press Alt + 0198 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or press Option + Shift + ' on Mac, or write Æ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+00C6 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 00c6 on Linux, or 00c6 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Latin Capital Letter Ae
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+00C6
- Windows
- Alt + 0198
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 0198 | Hold Alt and type the number on the numeric keypad. |
| Mac | Option + Shift + ' | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | Æ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+00C6 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE |
Other accents symbols
Æ lives in the Latin-1 Supplement block (U+0080-U+00FF), the accented letters and common signs Western European languages needed. Within Unicode it is classified as Lu, an uppercase letter. It has a lowercase counterpart and changes under case conversion. Its bidirectional class makes it left-to-right.
Its lowercase counterpart is æ (U+00E6). They are separate codepoints, so a byte comparison treats them as different characters even though a case-insensitive search does not.
What Unicode says about Capital AE Ligature
The standard recognises Æ under another name as well: latin capital ligature ae (1.1). That is a formal alias, not a nickname, which is why it turns up in other people's documentation for the same codepoint.
The code chart points from Æ to cyrillic capital ligature a ie (U+04D4). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Capital AE Ligature looks nearly right but not quite.
How Capital AE Ligature behaves in software
Æ is East Asian Ambiguous: one column in a Western locale and two in a CJK one. That is why a table that lines up on your machine can break on somebody else's, with no change to the text at all. It is a left-to-right character, so it holds that direction even inside a right-to-left paragraph.
Every way to write Capital AE Ligature
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+00C6 |
| Decimal | 198 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 86 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 00 C6 |
| HTML entity | Æ |
| HTML numeric | Æ or Æ |
| CSS | \00C6 |
| JavaScript | \u00C6 |
| Python | \u00C6 |
| URL-encoded | %C3%86 |
| SVG | 00C6.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If Æ arrives as Æ
That is this exact character, undamaged: its two UTF-8 bytes C3 86 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The Latin-1 range is where this happens most, because it is the range every legacy system thought it already handled. Nothing is lost, and retyping will not help: the fix is at the reading end, which has to be told the text is UTF-8. An empty rectangle is the opposite complaint, and means the encoding is right and the font has no glyph for U+00C6.