ASCII 200
Uppercase E with grave accentDouble box bottom-left corner
ASCII 200 is È on Windows and ╚ in old DOS.
È (Capital E with Grave) is byte 200 in Windows-1252, Unicode U+00C8. Italian needs it whenever a sentence starts with è (È vero, È stato), and French uses it in capitals like ÈRE. In Italian the accent on that word is always grave, so an É in its place is a misspelling that search and spell checkers treat as a different letter. In UTF-8 it's C3 88, and 88 is the circumflex ˆ in Windows-1252, so mangled text reads È vero. The HTML entity is È.
╚ (Double Up and Right) is byte 200 in code page 437, the original IBM PC character set, and maps to Unicode U+255A. It's the bottom-left corner of an all-double frame, where ║ (186) comes down and ═ (205) heads right toward ╝ at 188. You'll meet it in .nfo files, the text files with box and block art that accompany some software releases. They're written in code page 437, so an editor that assumes Windows-1252 or UTF-8 shows accented letters or question marks where the frame should be. Open them in an NFO viewer or switch the editor's encoding to code page 437. In UTF-8 it's E2 95 9A, and the HTML entity is ╚.
Technical Details
Technical Details
Code Example
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#include <stdio.h>int main(void) {/* On Windows (code page 1252) byte 200 is È.Modern terminals expect UTF-8, so print the code point, not the byte. */printf("\u00C8\n"); /* UTF-8: C3 88 */unsigned char b = 200; /* the raw Windows-1252 byte */printf("%d 0x%02X\n", b, b); /* 200 0xC8 */return 0;}
Code Example
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#include <stdio.h>int main(void) {/* Byte 200 is ╚ only on a console using code page 437(chcp 437 on Windows, or DOSBox). On a UTF-8 terminal thelone byte 0xC8 is invalid and prints as garbage, often �. */putchar(200);/* char is signed on x86, so a plain char holding 0xC8 is -56.Use unsigned char when you compare or index by byte value. */char c = (char)200;unsigned char u = 200;printf("\n%d %d\n", c, u); /* -56 200 *//* Portable: print the Unicode character as UTF-8 instead. */printf("\u255A\n"); /* E2 95 9A */return 0;}
How to Type It
- Windows
- Hold Alt and type 0200 on the numeric keypad, with Num Lock on. The leading zero picks the Windows code page. No numeric keypad? In Word, type 00C8 and press Alt+X.
- Mac
- Press Option+`, then Shift+E.
- Linux
- In GNOME, or any desktop running IBus, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type c8, then Space. With a Compose key set up, press Compose, backtick, E.
- Phone
- Tap Shift, then long-press E and pick È.
How to Type It
- Windows
- Hold Alt and type 200 on the numeric keypad, with no leading zero. Windows reads it as a DOS code and inserts ╚. No numeric keypad? In Word, type 255A and press Alt+X.
- Mac
- Press Control+Command+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for "box drawings double up and right".
- Linux
- In GNOME, or any desktop running IBus, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 255a, then Space.
- Phone
- Phone keyboards have no key for it. Tap the character at the top of this page to copy it.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. E' is a typewriter-era stand-in, and in edited text it counts as a mistake, so write È vero, not E' vero. It survives because the Italian keyboard's è key gives é with Shift, not È, which leaves the capital without a key at all. Alt+0200 types it on Windows.
È marks the open e of père and très, typically before a consonant plus a silent e, or at the end of words like succès. É marks the closed e of été and café. É is also the one you'll find opening most words, as in école and État, while È starts only a handful, like ère.
Alt codes without a leading zero come from the DOS table, and 200 there is the double-line corner ╚. Alt+0200 gives È. Italian PCs, whose DOS code page is 850, also have a zero-free route at Alt+212, but the US DOS set has no È, so on those machines Alt+212 types ╘.
Frequently Asked Questions
Alt codes without a leading zero come from the DOS table, and 200 there is the double-line corner ╚. Alt+0200 gives È. Italian PCs, whose DOS code page is 850, also have a zero-free route at Alt+212, but the US DOS set has no È, so on those machines Alt+212 types ╘.