Diaeresis
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0168 on the numeric keypad to insert diaeresis.
- Alt code
- Alt+0168
- HTML entity
- ¨
- Unicode
- U+00A8
About this symbol
¨ is the spacing diaeresis, two dots on their own. Typewriters and early computer character sets had separate accent marks like this one so they could be typed over a letter, and European keyboards still use them as dead keys that combine with the next letter typed.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- DIAERESIS
- Type
- Modifier symbol
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- This is a spacing character
- Related
- ◌̈ Combining Diaeresis U+0308
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Windows Extended Codes: 0128 to 0255 chart for related characters.