ASCII 140

Character 140 ()

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

Decimal	140
Hexadecimal	0x8C
Octal	0214
Binary	10001100
HTML numeric entity
URL encoding	%8C
UTF-8 bytes	0xC2 0x8C

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(140); // ""
140.toString(16); // "8c"

Python

chr(140)           # control char 
ord(chr(140))      # 140
hex(140)           # '0x8c'

HTML

&#140;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+008C. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0x8C. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0x8C, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

Nearby codes

137 —

Character 137

138 —

Character 138

139 —

Character 139

141 —

Character 141

142 —

Character 142

143 —

Character 143