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U00C8

U+00C8, named Latin capital letter E with grave, is a character in the Latin script used in many Western languages. It is the precomposed Unicode character with the code point U+00C8 and has the decimal value 200. It is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block and is categorized as a letter (uppercase) in the Unicode data.

In terms of encoding, U+00C8 can be represented in several ways:

- UTF-8: two bytes, 0xC3 0x88.

- UTF-16: 0x00C8 (big endian) or 0xC800 (little endian).

- HTML and XML: the named entity È or the numeric reference È.

Appearance and usage are tied to the grave accent on the letter E. È indicates a specific

Typography and normalization considerations note that È is a precomposed character; under Unicode normalization form D

See also: other E-with-diacritic characters such as É (U+00C9) and È’s role within Latin-script alphabets.

vowel
quality
and
stress
pattern
in
languages
that
use
the
grave
as
a
diacritic,
such
as
Italian
and
French.
In
Italian,
È
can
appear
as
a
standalone
uppercase
form
of
the
verb
essere,
as
in
È
importante.
In
French
and
other
languages,
uppercase
È
appears
mainly
in
proper
nouns
or
at
the
beginning
of
sentences.
The
character
is
distinct
from
É
(E
with
acute)
and
Ê
(E
with
circumflex)
in
both
meaning
and
pronunciation.
(NFD)
it
can
decompose
to
E
(U+0045)
followed
by
a
combining
grave
accent
(U+0300),
and
form
C
(NFC)
can
recompose
back
to
U+00C8.