U+00E0 Latin Small Letter A with Grave
U+00E0 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Latin Capital Letter A with Grave and its titlecase variant is Latin Capital Letter A with Grave.
The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Latin Small Letter A, Combining Grave Accent. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+00E0 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
À, à (a-grave) is a letter of the Catalan, Emilian-Romagnol, French, Italian, Maltese, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, and Welsh languages consisting of the letter A of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and a grave accent. À is also used in Pinyin transliteration. In most languages, it represents the vowel a. This letter is also a letter in Taos to indicate a mid tone.
In accounting or invoices, à abbreviates "at a rate of": "5 apples à $1" (one dollar each). That usage is based upon the French preposition à and has evolved into the at sign (@). Sometimes, it is part of a surname: Thomas à Kempis, Mary Anne à Beckett.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 224 |
| UTF-8 | C3 A0 |
| UTF-16 | 00 E0 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 E0 |
| URL-Quoted | %C3%A0 |
| HTML hex reference | à |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Ã |
| HTML named entity | à |
| HTML named entity | à |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-14 (hex bytes) | E0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | E0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes) | E0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-3 (hex bytes) | E0 |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | 88 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | E0 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | E0 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | E0 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | E0 |
| LATEX | \`{a} |
| AGL: Latin-1 | agrave |
| AGL: Latin-2 | agrave |
| AGL: Latin-3 | agrave |
| AGL: Latin-4 | agrave |
| AGL: Latin-5 | agrave |
| Adobe Glyph List | agrave |
| digraph | a! |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER A GRAVE | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| canonical | |
| Latin Small Letter A Combining Grave Accent | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Grave | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Grave | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter A with Grave | |
| Latin Capital Letter A with Grave | |
| Latin Capital Letter A with Grave | |
| Latin Capital Letter A with Grave | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Grave | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Grave | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| No | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Grave | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Grave | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Grave | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Grave | |
| R |