U+00EB "ë" Latin Small Letter E with Diaeresis Unicode Character

U+00EB "ë" Latin Small Letter E with Diaeresis is a precomposed character representing a letter e with two dots placed above it, traditionally known as a diaeresis or trema. It is used in several languages and orthographic systems, most notably in French, Catalan, and Albanian, where the diaeresis indicates that the vowel is to be pronounced separately from a preceding vowel, as in the French word "Noël," or marks a distinct vowel quality, as in the Albanian alphabet where it represents a schwa sound. In English, it occasionally appears in loanwords and names to signal that the e is not part of a digraph, such as in the word "naïve" or "Brontë." As part of the Latin-1 Supplement block, it is widely supported in digital text encoding, enabling proper representation of these linguistic distinctions.