How to type Capital C with Cedilla
To type Capital C with Cedilla (Ç), press Alt + 0199 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or press Option + Shift + C on Mac, or write Ç in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+00C7 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 00c7 on Linux, or 00c7 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Latin Capital Letter C With Cedilla
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+00C7
- Windows
- Alt + 0199
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 0199 | Hold Alt and type the number on the numeric keypad. |
| Mac | Option + Shift + C | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | Ç | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+00C7 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA |
Other accents symbols
Ç 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.
Ç has a decomposed form: it can also be written as U+0043 Latin Capital Letter C, U+0327 Combining Cedilla. The two look identical and are not equal as strings, which is why a search for a word containing Ç sometimes fails against text that was typed on a different system. Everything on this site uses the single-codepoint (NFC) form shown here.
Its lowercase counterpart is ç (U+00E7). They are separate codepoints, so a byte comparison treats them as different characters even though a case-insensitive search does not.
Typing Ç without switching keyboard
Ç is the letter C carrying a cedilla, and it is needed in French and Portuguese. It is one character rather than two: a spell checker treats it as a letter of those alphabets, not as C with something added.
Both of the routes worth knowing compose the letter rather than looking it up. On a Mac press Option + C, let go, then press Shift and C: nothing appears until the second key, because the first one is a dead key waiting for a letter to sit under. On Windows the same idea needs the United States-International layout, which turns the apostrophe key, then c into the same dead key. Add that layout once under Language and region, and Ç costs two keystrokes from then on rather than four digits on a numeric keypad.
How Capital C with Cedilla behaves in software
Ç takes one column in a terminal. It is a left-to-right character, so it holds that direction even inside a right-to-left paragraph.
Every way to write Capital C with Cedilla
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+00C7 |
| Decimal | 199 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 87 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 00 C7 |
| HTML entity | Ç |
| HTML numeric | Ç or Ç |
| CSS | \00C7 |
| JavaScript | \u00C7 |
| Python | \u00C7 |
| URL-encoded | %C3%87 |
| SVG | 00C7.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If Ç arrives as Ç
That is this exact character, undamaged: its two UTF-8 bytes C3 87 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+00C7.