1. List Of English Diacritical Marks
2. ALT Codes For Foreign Language Letters With Accents

Diacritic is primarily an adjective, though sometimes used as a noun, whereas diacritical is only ever an adjective. Some diacritical marks, such as the acute ( ´ ) and grave ( ` ), are often called accents. Diacritical marks may appear above or below a letter, or in some other position such as within the letter or between two letters.

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2. Vowel Diacritics. This table is organized by accent diacritic, then vowel. See the HTML Accent Chart or the Old English HTML codes for capital letters with accents. For each combination, codes in bold teal are entity codes or decimal Unicode numeric codes.
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Diacritical Marks – how to fix them in Excel

Does this look familiar? Diacritical marks are the symbols that many languages add to letters indicating a different pronunciation. Examples of words diacriticals can be found in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian and others. Take for instance: “geïnspireerd” in Dutch, “språk” in Swedish or “hören” in German. The issue with these diacritical marks is that programs like Excel and Word sometimes mix them up. This guide shows you how to solve this issue! When you export a text file with diacritics to Excel you often end up with a list like in the image above. Don’t worry though, you don’t have to manually correct all these words! There is a simple way of fixing them.

Step 1: open the file in Notepad

Step 2: save as – change the coding ANSI to UTF-8

Save the file as a Notepad file using the ‘save as’ option, be sure to change the coding from ANSI to UTF-8.

Step 3: open the file you just created with Excel

Go to the text file you just created, and open it with Excel. The import Wizard will pop-up.

Step 4: Work your way through the Wizard

Step 5: Finish the Wizard

Step 6: Done! Save the file in the Excel format (.xlsx)

If you now open the file you will see that all diacritical marks appear correctly. Other helpful links:

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List Of English Diacritical Marks

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