Eacute

É, or E with acute, refers to the Latin capital letter É and its lowercase é. In Unicode, É is U+00C9 and é is U+00E9. In HTML and similar systems, the named character references are É for É and é for é; numeric references are É and é respectively. The character is widely supported in modern text encodings such as Unicode and ISO/IEC 8859-1.

Usage and linguistic role: In French, É typically marks a closed e sound and appears in many common words, such as été, école and café. In Spanish and Portuguese, accented forms of e indicate vowel quality or stress and help distinguish words (for example café, éléctrico). In Irish Gaelic, é denotes a long vowel. In English, É appears mainly in borrowed words, proper names, or stylistic uses in branding and titles.

Encoding, typography, and input: The É/é characters are distinct code points in Unicode and are present in common Western encodings (such as ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252). Under UTF-8, É is encoded as the two-byte sequence C3 89 and é as C3 A9. Sorting and case-folding of accented vowels vary by language and locale. Input methods for producing É/é depend on keyboard layout and operating system.