How to type I with Acute
To type I with Acute (í), press Alt + 0237 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or press Option + E, I on Mac, or write í in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+00ED directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 00ed on Linux, or 00ed then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Latin Small Letter I With Acute
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+00ED
- Windows
- Alt + 0237
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 0237 | Hold Alt and type the number on the numeric keypad. |
| Mac | Option + E, I | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | í | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+00ED | LATIN SMALL 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 Ll, a lowercase letter. It has an uppercase 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+0069 Latin Small 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 uppercase counterpart is Í (U+00CD). 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 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 I with Acute behaves in software
í 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 I with Acute
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+00ED |
| Decimal | 237 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 AD |
| UTF-16 bytes | 00 ED |
| HTML entity | í |
| HTML numeric | í or í |
| CSS | \00ED |
| JavaScript | \u00ED |
| Python | \u00ED |
| URL-encoded | %C3%AD |
| SVG | 00ED.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If í arrives as Ã
That is this exact character, undamaged: its two UTF-8 bytes C3 AD 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+00ED.