Accented Letters and HTML Entities

Unlike some other languages, the English language (the language I use) has few words with accented letters.

Often, the unaccented version of letters in excepted words will suffice to let the reader recognize them. But it's not professional. It can indicate a carelessness or ignorance of how the word is spelled.

For websites and articles, it's generally best to be professional. The accented word sauté instead of unaccented saute is an example.

While my focus is on the English language, the same accented letters are used in a number of other languages. Some of those other languages will have accented letters not represented here.

These accented letters are created with HTML entity codes.

There are character entities (example: À) and decimal entities (example: À). Both of those examples produce the grave-accented capital letter À.

The Remembering the HTML Code for Common Letter Accent Marks article describes a method of remembering the code for HTML character entities. If you use accented letters enough to warrant it, remembering the codes may be of personal benefit.

This article, on the other hand, exists simply and specifically to copy HTML entity codes for pasting into your web pages and articles.

Click on any of the letters and the box will display the accents for that letter and the HTML entity codes to produce them. Clicking on a code will select the code ready for copying.

(A)   (C)   (E)   (I)   (N)   (O)   (U)   (Y)

Do bookmark this page if you use accented letters in your content.

The page is easy to use, always available, and provides the code when you need an accented letter.

(This article first appeared in Possibilities ezine.)

Will Bontrager