U00CC

U+00CC denotes the Latin capital letter I with a grave accent, rendered as Ì. It is part of the Unicode standard’s Latin-1 Supplement block and is used in several languages that employ the Latin script to indicate a specific vowel quality or stress pattern. The uppercase form is Ì, while the lowercase counterpart is U+00EC (ì).

In terms of encoding, U+00CC corresponds to the byte value 0xCC in the ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set. In UTF-8, it is encoded as the two-byte sequence C3 8C. In HTML and many XML contexts, the character can be represented as Ì or as a numeric character reference Ì (decimal) or Ì (hex).

Usage of this diacritic varies by language. It appears in languages that use the Latin script and employ the grave accent to indicate vowel quality, length, or stress. For example, Italian can use the grave on vowels to mark stress in dictionaries or in loanwords, and other languages with Latin-derived alphabets may use Ì similarly in spelling conventions. The exact phonetic value of Ì depends on the language and orthographic system in question.

In digital typography, Ì is supported by modern fonts and input methods, though its availability can depend on font coverage and keyboard layouts. Software handling Unicode text often treats U+00CC like other diacritic-bearing letters, preserving it in normalization, sorting, and rendering operations.