The letter Ç n Spanish keyboards?

Question

I've been on this site for almost a year now and I just now noticed a character on the Spanish keyboard which I am completely unfamiliar with. It is on the far right and looks like a C wit a little thingy under it. Can someone tell me what it is.

compi, there is no such thing as a stupid question;) - 00494d19, Aug 3, 2010

OooKaay!!! Muchas gracias mi amiga. - Yeser007, Aug 3, 2010

Answer 1

are you talking about Ç... ? Well I don't think that it is a letter of spanish alphabet but in french you can find it a lot... OH! right ! in Catalan also... it's pronunciated the same as "c" in french or in catalan. But in other languages it's different ,for example in turkish it is pronunciated as che it depends..

That's the one, I just noticed it on someones post about the international keyboard. Thank you. - Yeser007, Aug 3, 2010

Answer 2

Dugu got it, actually the terrible football team, those guys who never win....poor babies...

Well, the name of this team is

Barça

jeje

:O we always win. Don't be jealous :D - culé, Aug 3, 2010

Is somebody's head still a bit swollen from the big win?:) - Yeser007, Aug 3, 2010

hehehehe :D sure :D - culé, Aug 4, 2010

Answer 3

It sounds like you may be talking about the cedilla which is a French accent which is used to make the letter c sound soft like an s fore the letters a, o or u

le garÇon = the boy

note that c is naturally soft before i or e as in Ici = here or ce = it, that

You may find it in Catalan too since it is reputedly derived from a combination of (old) Spanish and French

Oh, now that you mention it, I remember that from French class. - Yeser007, Aug 3, 2010

Answer 4

It's also a "S" sound in Portuguese, I think.

Answer 5

Thanks everyone, with your input I was able to grab the character and find more about it in Wikipedia link text