How to type Capital I with Acute
To type Capital I with Acute (Í), press Alt + 0205 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or press Option + E, Shift + I on Mac, or write Í in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+00CD directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 00cd on Linux, or 00cd then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Latin Capital Letter I With Acute
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+00CD
- Windows
- Alt + 0205
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 0205 | Hold Alt and type the number on the numeric keypad. |
| Mac | Option + E, Shift + I | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | Í | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+00CD | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE |
Other accents symbols
Í 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.
Í has a decomposed form: it can also be written as U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I, U+0301 Combining Acute Accent. The two look identical and are not equal as strings, which is why a search for a word containing Í 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 í (U+00ED). They are separate codepoints, so a byte comparison treats them as different characters even though a case-insensitive search does not.
Typing Í without switching keyboard
Í is the letter I 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 I 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 I: 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 Í costs two keystrokes from then on rather than four digits on a numeric keypad.
How Capital I with Acute behaves in software
Í 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 I with Acute
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+00CD |
| Decimal | 205 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 8D |
| UTF-16 bytes | 00 CD |
| HTML entity | Í |
| HTML numeric | Í or Í |
| CSS | \00CD |
| JavaScript | \u00CD |
| Python | \u00CD |
| URL-encoded | %C3%8D |
| SVG | 00CD.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If Í arrives as Ã�
That is this exact character, undamaged: its two UTF-8 bytes C3 8D 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+00CD.