Catalan is a Romance language related to Spanish and French spoken in Barcelona, Valencia, the eastern coast of Spain, parts of Southern France and in the Republic of Andorra. lf you need to refer to additional characters, look under the Accents tab.
In Windows, combinations of the ALT key plus a numeric code can be used to type a non-English character (accented letter or punctuation symbol) in any Windows application. More detailed instructions about typing accents with ALT keys are available. Additional options for entering accents in Windows are also listed in the Accents section of this Web site.
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In order to use these codes you must activate the international keyboard. Instructions are listed in the Keyboards section of this Web site.
This list is organized by Accent type. The sample shows a letter with that accent, and the Notes present any special comments about using that accent.
For the Template, the symbol "V" means type any vowel.
| ACCENT | SAMPLE | TEMPLATE | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grave | à À | `, V | ` = left single quote |
| Acute | ó Ó | ', V | ' = apostrophe key |
| Umlaut | ü Ü | ", V | " = quote key |
Example 1: To type lower case ó - Type the apostrophe key ('), then O. For capital Ó, type the apostrophe, then capital O.
For these codes, you must make sure you use the Alt key on the right side of the keyboard.
Note: that there is no shortcut for
the joined O-E.
| Consonants/Punctuation | |
| Ç | Shift+RightAlt + < |
|---|---|
| ç | RightAlt + < |
| « | RightAlt+[ |
| » | RightAlt+] |
| € | Control+RightAlt+5 |
If you wish to simulate a non U.S. keyboard, follow the instructions for Activating Keyboard Locales to activate and switch Microsoft keyboards.
For the Template, the symbol "V" means any vowel. The
format is to hold the first two keys down simultaneously, release, then
type the vowel you wish to be accented.
Note: You should use the Catalan Keyboard if you need to type accents on the letter y.
| ACCENT | SAMPLE | TEMPLATE |
|---|---|---|
| Grave | à À | Option+`, V |
| Acute | ú Ú | Option+E, V |
| Umlaut | ü Ü | Option+U, V |
Example 1: To input the lower case ó, hold down the Option key, then the E key. Release both keys then type lowercase o.
Example 2: To input the capital Ó, hold down the Option key, then the E key. Release all three keys then type capital O.
| Consonants/Punctuation | |
| ç | Option+C |
|---|---|
| Ç | Shift+Option+C |
| « | Option+\ |
| » | Shift+Option+\ |
| € | Shift+Option+2 (not on older fonts) |
These are the codes which allow browsers and screen readers to process data as the appropriate language. All letters in codes are lower case.
See Using Encoding and Language Codes for more information on the meaning and implementation of these codes.
Use these codes to input accented letters in HTML. For instance, if you
want to type algú you would type alg&uacte;.
The numbers in parentheses are the numeric codes assigned in Unicode encoding. For instance, because ú is number 250, algú can also be used to input algú. These numbers are also used with the Windows Alt
codes listed above.
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Note: Older browsers may not the suport single angle codes (‹ / › for ‹ and ›).
Computers process text by assuming a certain encoding or a system of matching electronic data with visual text characters. Whenever you develop a Web site you need to make sure the proper encoding is specified in the header tags; otherwise the browser may default to U.S. settings and not display the text properly.
To declare an encoding, insert or inspect the following meta-tag at the top of your HTML file, then replace "???" with one of the encoding codes listed above. If you are not sure, use utf-8 as the encoding.
Generic Encoding Template
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=??? ">
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<head>Declare Unicode
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8 ">
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<head>
The final close slash must be included after the final quote mark in the encoding header tag if you are using XHTML
Declare Unicode in XHTML
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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<head>
If no encoding is declared, then the browser uses the default setting, which in the U.S. is typically Latin-1. In that case many Unicode characters could be displayed incorrectly. Also, older browsers such as Netscape 4.7 may not be able to process the entity codes correctly without the "utf-8" declaration.
Language tags are also suggested so that search engines and screen readers parse the language of a page. These are meta data tags which indicate the page of a language, not devices to trigger translation. Visit the Language Tag page to view information on where to insert it.
