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.
Common uses & context
Decimal 140 (0x8C) falls in the C1 control range (128–159). In the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) encoding these code points are unassigned control positions with no visible glyph, and in Windows-1252 many of them were repurposed for typographic characters like curly quotes and the em dash. That mismatch is a classic cause of mojibake: a byte stored as Windows-1252 but decoded as Latin-1 (or UTF-8) shows the wrong character or a replacement box.
In modern Unicode, U+008C is a C1 control code. Its UTF-8 encoding is the two-byte sequence 0xC2 0x8C, which is why a raw high byte 0x8C from a legacy Latin-1 file becomes garbled when a program assumes UTF-8.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 140 |
| Hexadecimal | 0x8C |
| Octal | 0214 |
| Binary | 10001100 |
| HTML numeric entity | Π|
| 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
Π<!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->Programming notes
- ▸Code 140 is in the C1 control range — unassigned in Latin-1, repurposed in Windows-1252.
- ▸A raw byte 0x8C decoded as UTF-8 becomes garbage; specify the correct charset explicitly.
- ▸UTF-8 encoding: 0xC2 0x8C; Unicode code point U+008C.
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.
Frequently asked questions
What character is ASCII code 140?
ASCII code 140 is the character '' (Character 140). In hexadecimal it is 0x8C, in octal 0214, and in binary 10001100.
What is 0x8C in ASCII?
Hexadecimal 0x8C equals decimal 140, which is the character '' (Character 140). To convert hex to ASCII yourself, read the two hex digits as a base-16 number (0x8C = 140) and look up that code point.
How do I write the character with code 140 in code?
In JavaScript use String.fromCharCode(140); in Python use chr(140); in HTML use the numeric entity Œ. In a URL it is percent-encoded as %8C, and in UTF-8 it is stored as the byte sequence 0xC2 0x8C.