How to type Capital E with Acute
To type Capital E with Acute (É), press Alt + 0201 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or press Option + E, Shift + E on Mac, or write É in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+00C9 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 00c9 on Linux, or 00c9 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Latin Capital Letter E With Acute
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+00C9
- Windows
- Alt + 0201
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 0201 | Hold Alt and type the number on the numeric keypad. |
| Mac | Option + E, Shift + E | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | É | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+00C9 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE |
Other accents symbols
É 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.
É has a decomposed form: it can also be written as U+0045 Latin Capital Letter E, U+0301 Combining Acute Accent. The two look identical and are not equal as strings, which is why a search for a word containing É 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 é (U+00E9). They are separate codepoints, so a byte comparison treats them as different characters even though a case-insensitive search does not.
Typing É without switching keyboard
É is the letter E carrying an acute accent, and it is needed in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Czech. It is one character rather than two: a spell checker treats it as a letter of those alphabets, not as E with something added.
Both of the routes worth knowing compose the letter rather than looking it up. On a Mac press Option + E, let go, then press Shift and E: 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 into the same dead key. Add that layout once under Language and region, and É costs two keystrokes from then on rather than four digits on a numeric keypad.
How Capital E with Acute behaves in software
É 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 E with Acute
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+00C9 |
| Decimal | 201 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 89 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 00 C9 |
| HTML entity | É |
| HTML numeric | É or É |
| CSS | \00C9 |
| JavaScript | \u00C9 |
| Python | \u00C9 |
| URL-encoded | %C3%89 |
| SVG | 00C9.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If É arrives as É
That is this exact character, undamaged: its two UTF-8 bytes C3 89 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+00C9.