00EB

00EB is the designation for the Unicode code point U+00EB, encoding the Latin small letter e with diaeresis, rendered as ë. The character is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block and is used in several languages to denote a vowel sound distinct from neighboring vowels or to indicate diaeresis.

In terms of encoding and rendering, U+00EB is the code point, while in ISO/IEC 8859-1 it corresponds to the single byte 0xEB. In UTF-8, the character is encoded as the two-byte sequence 0xC3 0xAB. In HTML, it can be written as ë or numerically as ë or ë. The character is categorized as a lowercase letter with left-to-right directionality.

Usage varies by language. In Albanian orthography, ë represents a mid-central vowel [ə]. In Dutch and other Latin-script languages, the diaeresis over e can appear in loanwords or proper names to indicate syllable separation or to preserve the pronunciation of a sequence that might otherwise be read as a single digraph. Its presence helps distinguish otherwise ambiguous sequences in certain orthographies.

Because 00EB is not part of ASCII, proper rendering requires a character encoding that supports extended Latin characters, such as UTF-8 or ISO/IEC 8859-1. Misrendering can occur if the font or encoding is not configured to display extended Latin characters.