The characters À , Á, Â, Ã, Ä, Å, or à , á, â, ã, ä, å are all variations of the letter “A” with different accent marks or diacritical marks. These marks are also known as accent marks which are commonly used in many languages to indicate variations in pronunciation or meaning. In this article, you will learn how to type 'a' with an accent ( à , á, â, ã, ä) on your Windows or Mac keyboard, as well as in Microsoft Word. So what's the problem, It's a ’ (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK - U+2019) character which is being decoded as CP-1252 instead of UTF-8. If you check the Encodings table of this character at FileFormat.Info, then you see that this character is in UTF-8 composed of bytes 0xE2, 0x80 and 0x99. And if you check the CP-1252 code page layout at Wikipedia, then you'll see that the hex bytes E2, 80 and 99 stand for the individual characters â, € and ™. A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, [1][2] used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is a (pronounced / ˈeɪ / ⓘ AY), plural aes. [nb 1][2] It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. [3] The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double ...
