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LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE

Ll — Lowercase Letter
Latin
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
224

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 C3 A0 195 160 2
UTF-16 LE E0 00 224 0 2
UTF-16 BE 00 E0 0 224 2
UTF-32 LE E0 00 00 00 224 0 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 00 E0 0 0 0 224 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) E0 224 1
Windows-1252 E0 224 1
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP 8F AB A2 143 171 162 3
GBK A8 A4 168 164 2
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

à
à
à
\E0
\u00E0
%C3%A0
\u00e0
224

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 2 bytes. The leading 110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 2-byte sequence. Bytes 2+ begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
C3
·
Byte 2
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
A0
UTF-8: C3 A0 · 2 bytes · Codepoint U+00E0

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right
Uppercase: U+00C0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
Titlecase: U+00C0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE

Canonical decomposition — this character is equivalent to the sequence below under NFC/NFD normalization.

Nearby Characters in Latin-1 Supplement