Caron
Caron - quick reference
The caron (ˇ), also called hacek (from Czech for "little hook"), sits above a consonant or vowel to indicate a changed pronunciation. Czech uses it heavily: "c" is /ts/ but "c" (with caron) is /tch/, and "s" becomes /sh/. Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian share many of the same caron letters.
In ASCII, caron characters do not exist. ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) was specifically designed for Central European languages and includes pre-composed caron letters. Windows-1250 covers the same territory on Windows systems. Browse all available caron characters in our caron character group, and see the encoding comparisons to check which caron letters each encoding supports.
In ASCII, caron characters do not exist. ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) was specifically designed for Central European languages and includes pre-composed caron letters. Windows-1250 covers the same territory on Windows systems. Browse all available caron characters in our caron character group, and see the encoding comparisons to check which caron letters each encoding supports.