ÿ

Y with diaeresis
Y with diaeresis
Ÿ ÿ
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ÿis aLatin scriptcharacter composed of the letterYand thediaeresisdiacritical mark. It occurs in French as a variant of⟨ï⟩in a few proper nouns, as in the name of the Parisian suburb ofL'Haÿ-les-Roses[la.ileʁoz]and in the surname of thehouse of Croÿ[kʁu.i].^[1]It occurs in a fewHungariannames as well, such asLajos MéhelÿandMargit Danÿ.

As⟨ÿ⟩rarely appears as the first letter in a name, and all-caps text typically omitted all accents, initially there was assumed to be no need for an uppercase⟨Ÿ⟩when computer character sets such asCP437andISO 8859-1were designed. However much software assumes that conversion from lower-case to upper-case and then back again is lossless, so⟨Ÿ⟩was added to many character sets such asCP1252,ISO 8859-15,andUnicode.This also happened to a more prominent character, the Germanß.

IPAuses ⟨ÿ⟩ to transcribe theclose central compressed vowel,a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

The character has also found use as ametal umlaut.

In Unicode

U+00FFÿLATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
U+0178ŸLATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS

References

^"French Language Information".Lingvozoft.

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[1] "French Language Information".Lingvozoft.

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