ę is the Unicode character LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK, code point U+0119 (decimal 281) in the Latin Extended-A block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ę, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes C4 99.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+0119 |
| Decimal | 281 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C4 99 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 0119 |
| UTF-32 | 00000119 |
| HTML decimal | ę |
| HTML hex | ę |
| HTML named | ę |
| CSS | \119 |
| JavaScript | \u0119 |
| JSON | \u0119 |
| Python | \u0119 |
| Python by name | \N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK} |
| Java, C# | \u0119 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{119} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u0119 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %C4%99 |
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 SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK |
| Code point | U+0119 (decimal 281) |
| Block | Latin Extended-A (U+0100–U+017F) |
| General category | Ll: Lowercase letter |
| Script | Latin |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+0119. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Upper and lower case
- Ę U+0118 Latin Capital Letter E With Ogonek — Uppercase
Nearby in Latin Extended-A
- đ U+0111 Latin Small Letter D With Stroke
- Ē U+0112 Latin Capital Letter E With Macron
- ē U+0113 Latin Small Letter E With Macron
- Ĕ U+0114 Latin Capital Letter E With Breve
- ĕ U+0115 Latin Small Letter E With Breve
- Ė U+0116 Latin Capital Letter E With Dot Above
- ė U+0117 Latin Small Letter E With Dot Above
- Ę U+0118 Latin Capital Letter E With Ogonek
- Ě U+011A Latin Capital Letter E With Caron
- ě U+011B Latin Small Letter E With Caron
- Ĝ U+011C Latin Capital Letter G With Circumflex
- ĝ U+011D Latin Small Letter G With Circumflex
- Ğ U+011E Latin Capital Letter G With Breve
- ğ U+011F Latin Small Letter G With Breve
- Ġ U+0120 Latin Capital Letter G With Dot Above
- ġ U+0121 Latin Small Letter G With Dot Above
All 128 characters: Latin Extended-A.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ę?
- Use the named entity ę, or ę (decimal) or ę (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+0119?
- C4 99 (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %C4%99.
- How do I write U+0119 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u0119. Python: \u0119.
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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