In what data format or programming language is 'e' a delimiter? One situation is floating-point constants, where 'e' is a delimiter indicating the exponent. However, if an é occurs in the middle of such a constant, whether as a single code point or a combined character, that is an error. The 'e' must be followed by an optional sign and one or more decimal digits.

The ISO C library string handling stuff is for systems programming, not for scanners and parsers for natural written language.