How it works
These are all accented letters of two Unicode blocks, Latin-1 Supplement and Latin Extended-A, capital and small, with extra Latin letters such as æ, ð and ß: 190 letters, plus the Romanian ș and ț and the Hawaiian ʻokina.
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Letters with accent marks
Acute é, grave è, circumflex ê, umlaut or diaeresis ë, tilde ñ, cedilla ç, caron č, macron ā, breve ă, ogonek ą, ring å, dot ż, double acute ő and stroke ø.
Spanish and French accent letters
Spanish accented letters are á, é, í, ó, ú, ü and ñ. French ones are à, â, ç, é, è, ê, ë, î, ï, ô, ù, û, ü and ÿ, with æ and œ.
Romanian letters and Hawaiian alphabet letters
Romanian ș and ț carry a comma below; ş and ţ, with a cedilla, are other characters. Hawaiian writes ā, ē, ī, ō and ū with a macron, and its ʻokina is a letter with no capital.
Questions and answers
How do you put an accent over a letter?
Copy the accented letter here and paste it where you write. Typing one takes a method of its own: holding the letter key, pressing an accent key before the letter, or entering a number code.
How do you type letters with accents on a keyboard?
On a Mac or a Chromebook, hold the letter key down and pick from the accent menu that opens. On a PC, hold Alt and type a number-pad code: see Alt codes for accents. In Word, Ctrl+' then a vowel adds an acute accent.
How do you add accents to capital letters?
Capitals are tiles of their own: É sits next to é and Ñ next to ñ. ß has no capital tile: Unicode gives its capital as SS, or as ẞ at U+1E9E, outside these two blocks.
What are the special characters for the letter a with an accent mark?
Nine small ones: á, à, â, ä, ã, å, ā, ă, ą. The letter i with an accent comes as í, ì, î, ï, ĩ, ī, ĭ, į, plus the dotless ı and the dotted capital İ.
Is there an l special character?
Five, each with a capital: ĺ with an acute accent, ļ with a cedilla, ľ with a caron, ŀ with a middle dot and ł with a stroke.