International & Special Characters To enter 'special' and 'international' characters, you need to use the following codes. You can use these by pressing 'CTRL SHIFT U ' on the keyboard. An underlined 'u' charater will then appear, and you type the four-digit code in from the table below. Then press either space or return/enter and the relevant character will appear. If it's easier, you can also press 'CTRL Q ' when editing your text and the most common international characters will be inserted into your document for you to use.
International Characters (UPPERCASE)
Code
Character
Description
00C1 Á
Capital A with acute
00C0 À
Capital A with grave
00C2 Â
Capital A with circumflex
00C3 Ã
Capital A with tilde
00C4 Ä
Capital A with diaeresis
00C5 Å
Capital A with ring above
00C6 Æ
Capital Æ
00C7 Ç
Capital C with cedilla
00C8 È
Capital E with grave
00C9 É
Capital E with acute
00CA Ê
Capital E with circumflex
00CB Ë
Capital E with diaeresis
00CC Ì
Capital I with grave
00CD Í
Capital I with acute
00CE Î
Capital I with circumflex
00CF Ï
Capital I with diaeresis
00D0 Ð
Capital Eth
00D1 Ñ
Capital N with tilde
00D2 Ò
Capital O with grave
00D3 Ó
Capital O with acute
00D4 Ô
Capital O with circumflex
00D5 Õ
Capital O with tilde
00D6 Ö
Capital O with diaeresis
00D8 Ø
Capital O with stroke
00D9 Ù
Capital U with grave
00DA Ú
Capital U with acute
00DB Û
Capital U with circumflex
00DC Ü
Capital U with diaeresis
00DD Ý
Capital Y with acute
00DE Þ
Capital Thorn
International Characters (lowercase)
Code
Character
Description
00DF ß
Small sharp S
00E0 à
Small A with grave
00E1 á
Small A with acute
00E2 â
Small A with circumflex
00E3 ã
Small A with tilde
00E4 ä
Small A with diaeresis
00E5 å
Small A with ring above
00E6 æ
Small Æ
00E7 ç
Small C with cedilla
00E8 è
Small E with grave
00E9 é
Small E with acute
00EA ê
Small E with circumflex
00EB ë
Small E with diaeresis
00EC ì
Small I with grave
00ED í
Small I with acute
00EE î
Small I with circumflex
00EF ï
Small I with diaeresis
00F0 ð
Small Eth
00F1 ñ
Small N with tilde
00F2 ò
Small O with grave
00F3 ó
Small O with acute
00F4 ô
Small O with circumflex
00F5 õ
Small O with tilde
00F6 ö
Small O with diaeresis
00F8 ø
Small Letter O with stroke
00F9 ù
Small Letter U with grave
00FA ú
Small Letter U with acute
00FB û
Small Letter U with circumflex
00FC ü
Small Letter U with diaeresis
00FD ý
Small Letter Y with acute
00FE þ
Small Letter Thorn
00FF ÿ
Small Letter Y with diaeresis
International Characters (punctuation)
Code
Character
Description
00A1 ¡
Inverted Exclamation Mark
00BF ¿
Inverted Question Mark
00A2 ¢
Cent sign
00A3 £
Pound sign
00A4 ¤
Currency sign
00A5 ¥
Yen sign
00A6 ¦
Broken bar
00A7 §
Section sign
00A8 ¨
Diaeresis (Umlaut)
00AA ª
Feminine Ordinal Indicator
00BA º
Masculine ordinal indicator
00AB «
Left-pointing double angle quotation mark
00BB »
Right-pointing double angle quotation mark
Special Characters (e.g. mathematical)
Code
Character
Description
00D7 ×
Multiplication sign
00F7 ÷
Division sign
00AF ¯
Macron
00B0 °
Degree symbol
00B1 ±
Plus-minus sign
00B9 ¹
Superscript one
00B2 ²
Superscript two
00B3 ³
Superscript three
00B4 ´
Acute accent
00B5 µ
Micro sign
00B6 ¶
Pilcrow sign
00B7 ·
Middle dot
00B8 ¸
Cedilla
00BC ¼
Vulgar fraction one quarter
00BD ½
Vulgar fraction one half
00BE ¾
Vulgar fraction three quarters
00A9 ©
Copyright sign
00AE ®
Registered sign