U0118

U+0118, commonly rendered as the character 'Ę', is the Unicode code point for the Latin capital letter E with the ogonek. It is part of the Latin Extended-A block and has the primary use in Polish orthography, among other languages using the ogonek diacritic. The code point's numeric value is 280 in decimal. In some databases or fonts you may also see the form U0118 without the plus sign.

In UTF-8 encoding, U+0118 is represented by the two-byte sequence 0xC4 0x98. In HTML, it can be represented as Ę or Ę.

Typography and usage: The glyph is a capital E with a diacritic hook extending from the bottom, indicating a nasal vowel in Polish orthography. The corresponding lowercase form is U+0119 'ę'. The letter is supported in most modern fonts and software, enabling its use in Polish and other languages that employ the ogonek diacritic.

See also U+0119; ogonek; Polish alphabet.

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