Ë is the Unicode character LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS, code point U+00CB (decimal 203) in the Latin-1 Supplement block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write Ë, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes C3 8B.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+00CB |
| Decimal | 203 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C3 8B |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 00CB |
| UTF-32 | 000000CB |
| HTML decimal | Ë |
| HTML hex | Ë |
| HTML named | Ë |
| CSS | \CB |
| JavaScript | \u00CB |
| JSON | \u00CB |
| Python | \u00CB |
| Python by name | \N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS} |
| Java, C# | \u00CB |
| Rust, Swift | \u{CB} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u00CB |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %C3%8B |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS |
| Code point | U+00CB (decimal 203) |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF) |
| General category | Lu: Uppercase letter |
| Script | Latin |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+00CB. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- ë U+00EB Latin Small Letter E With Diaeresis — Lowercase
Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement
- Ã U+00C3 Latin Capital Letter A With Tilde
- Ä U+00C4 Latin Capital Letter A With Diaeresis
- Å U+00C5 Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above
- Æ U+00C6 Latin Capital Letter Ae
- Ç U+00C7 Latin Capital Letter C With Cedilla
- È U+00C8 Latin Capital Letter E With Grave
- É U+00C9 Latin Capital Letter E With Acute
- Ê U+00CA Latin Capital Letter E With Circumflex
- Ì U+00CC Latin Capital Letter I With Grave
- Í U+00CD Latin Capital Letter I With Acute
- Î U+00CE Latin Capital Letter I With Circumflex
- Ï U+00CF Latin Capital Letter I With Diaeresis
- Ð U+00D0 Latin Capital Letter Eth
- Ñ U+00D1 Latin Capital Letter N With Tilde
- Ò U+00D2 Latin Capital Letter O With Grave
- Ó U+00D3 Latin Capital Letter O With Acute
All 128 characters: Latin-1 Supplement.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for Ë?
- Use the named entity Ë, or Ë (decimal) or Ë (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+00CB?
- C3 8B (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %C3%8B.
- How do I write U+00CB in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u00CB. Python: \u00CB.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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