Precomposed É vs Decomposed E + Combining Acute Accent

Compare the precomposed character é (NFC form) with the decomposed sequence e + combining acute accent (NFD form) -- visually identical but different byte representations, a core Unicode normalization concept.

Latin Small Letter E with Acute
U+00E9
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Latin Small Letter E
U+0065
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Combining Acute Accent
U+0301
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Detailed Comparison

Property Latin Small Letter E with Acute Latin Small Letter E Combining Acute Accent
Character é e ́
Code Point U+00E9 U+0065 U+0301
Decimal 233 101 769
Unicode Name LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE LATIN SMALL LETTER E COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT
Category Lowercase Letter Lowercase Letter Nonspacing Mark
Block
HTML é e ́
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