Click a letter to add it to the text box and copy it. Every Catalan accent and special letter is here, with the codes to type them yourself.
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Punctuation & symbols
Catalan uses the grave on à, è, ò, the acute on é, í, ó, ú, the diaeresis on ï, ü, the ç, and the middle dot in l·l.
The Spanish layout covers all of it; the middle dot is Shift+3 on Spanish keyboards.
On a Mac, Option+Shift+9 types the middle dot.
Every special letter in Catalan, with the Windows Alt code where one exists, the hex code to type in Word followed by Alt+X, the Mac shortcut and the HTML entity. Click a letter to copy it.
| Letter | Name | Unicode | Alt code | Word (Alt+X) | Mac | Word shortcut | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A with Grave Accent | U+00E0 | Alt+0224 | 00E0 | Option+`, A | Ctrl+`, a | à | |
| E with Grave Accent | U+00E8 | Alt+0232 | 00E8 | Option+`, E | Ctrl+`, e | è | |
| E with Acute Accent | U+00E9 | Alt+0233 | 00E9 | Option+E, E | Ctrl+', e | é | |
| I with Acute Accent | U+00ED | Alt+0237 | 00ED | Option+E, I | Ctrl+', i | í | |
| I with Diaeresis | U+00EF | Alt+0239 | 00EF | Option+U, I | Ctrl+Shift+:, i | ï | |
| O with Grave Accent | U+00F2 | Alt+0242 | 00F2 | Option+`, O | Ctrl+`, o | ò | |
| O with Acute Accent | U+00F3 | Alt+0243 | 00F3 | Option+E, O | Ctrl+', o | ó | |
| U with Acute Accent | U+00FA | Alt+0250 | 00FA | Option+E, U | Ctrl+', u | ú | |
| U with Diaeresis | U+00FC | Alt+0252 | 00FC | Option+U, U | Ctrl+Shift+:, u | ü | |
| C with Cedilla | U+00E7 | Alt+0231 | 00E7 | Option+C | Ctrl+,, c | ç | |
| Capital A with Grave Accent | U+00C0 | Alt+0192 | 00C0 | Option+`, Shift+A | Ctrl+`, Shift+A | À | |
| Capital E with Grave Accent | U+00C8 | Alt+0200 | 00C8 | Option+`, Shift+E | Ctrl+`, Shift+E | È | |
| Capital E with Acute Accent | U+00C9 | Alt+0201 | 00C9 | Option+E, Shift+E | Ctrl+', Shift+E | É | |
| Capital I with Acute Accent | U+00CD | Alt+0205 | 00CD | Option+E, Shift+I | Ctrl+', Shift+I | Í | |
| Capital I with Diaeresis | U+00CF | Alt+0207 | 00CF | Option+U, Shift+I | Ctrl+Shift+:, Shift+I | Ï | |
| Capital O with Grave Accent | U+00D2 | Alt+0210 | 00D2 | Option+`, Shift+O | Ctrl+`, Shift+O | Ò | |
| Capital O with Acute Accent | U+00D3 | Alt+0211 | 00D3 | Option+E, Shift+O | Ctrl+', Shift+O | Ó | |
| Capital U with Acute Accent | U+00DA | Alt+0218 | 00DA | Option+E, Shift+U | Ctrl+', Shift+U | Ú | |
| Capital U with Diaeresis | U+00DC | Alt+0220 | 00DC | Option+U, Shift+U | Ctrl+Shift+:, Shift+U | Ü | |
| Capital C with Cedilla | U+00C7 | Alt+0199 | 00C7 | Option+Shift+C | Ctrl+,, Shift+C | Ç |
Open Settings → Time & Language → Language & region, add Catalan (or open the options for your language and add the Spanish (Spain) keyboard). Switch layouts with Win+Space. The current layout is shown next to the clock.
Open System Settings → Keyboard → Input Sources → Edit, click +, and add Catalan or Spanish. Switch with Control+Space or from the input menu in the menu bar. Turn on Show Input menu in menu bar to see which layout is active.
Open Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard and choose Catalan. Switch by holding the globe key on the keyboard.
In Gboard, open Settings → Languages → Add keyboard and choose Catalan. Switch by holding the space bar or tapping the globe key.
Press and hold the base letter on a Mac or phone to see accented versions, use the Option dead keys on a Mac, the US-International layout or Alt codes on Windows, or click the letters on this page to build your text and copy it.
Windows: Spanish (Spain). Mac: Catalan or Spanish. iPhone: Catalan. Android (Gboard): Catalan.
Yes. They are standard Unicode characters, so they paste as real text into any app that supports Unicode, which includes Word, Docs, Excel, WhatsApp, Instagram and email.
Many do. The table on this page lists the Windows Alt code for each letter that has one; letters without a code can be typed in Word by entering the Unicode hex value and pressing Alt+X.