How to type E with Acute
To type E with Acute (é), press Alt + 0233 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or press Option + E, E on Mac, or write é in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+00E9 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 00e9 on Linux, or 00e9 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Latin Small Letter E With Acute
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+00E9
- Windows
- Alt + 0233
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 0233 | Hold Alt and type the number on the numeric keypad. |
| Mac | Option + E, E | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | é | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+00E9 | LATIN SMALL 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 Ll, a lowercase letter. It has an uppercase 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+0065 Latin Small 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 uppercase counterpart is É (U+00C9). 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 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 E with Acute behaves in software
é 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.
What people ask about E with Acute
How to type e with acute accent?
You can press Alt + 0233 on Windows, with Num Lock on and the digits typed on the numeric keypad, or press Option + E, E on Mac. Either produces é.
Every way to write E with Acute
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+00E9 |
| Decimal | 233 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 A9 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 00 E9 |
| HTML entity | é |
| HTML numeric | é or é |
| CSS | \00E9 |
| JavaScript | \u00E9 |
| Python | \u00E9 |
| URL-encoded | %C3%A9 |
| SVG | 00E9.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If é arrives as é
That is this exact character, undamaged: its two UTF-8 bytes C3 A9 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+00E9.