Latin Capital Letter Y With Diaeresis
Part of Accented Latin Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0159 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter y with diaeresis.
- Alt code
- Alt+0159
- HTML entity
- Ÿ
- Unicode
- U+0178
About this symbol
The capital Ÿ was left out of Latin-1, which had only the small ÿ, because French rarely needs it. Microsoft’s Windows-1252 character set filled the gap, and Unicode gives it its own code, U+0178, well away from its small letter.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Latin Extended-A
- Unicode group
- European Latin
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- French, Igbo
- Lowercase is 00FF
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