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ASCII 139

Character 139 (‹)

Latin-1 Supplement

Unassigned in Latin-1 / part of the C1 control block. Not used in modern text encoding; browsers accept these code points but they carry no display glyph.

All encodings at a glance

Decimal139
Hexadecimal0x8B
Octal0213
Binary10001011
HTML numeric entity‹
URL encoding%8B
UTF-8 bytes0xC2 0x8B

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(139); // "‹"
139.toString(16); // "8b"

Python

chr(139)           # control char ‹
ord(chr(139))      # 139
hex(139)           # '0x8b'

HTML

&#139;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+008B. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0x8B. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0x8B, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

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