ASCII 158

Character 158 ()

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	158
Hexadecimal	0x9E
Octal	0236
Binary	10011110
HTML numeric entity
URL encoding	%9E
UTF-8 bytes	0xC2 0x9E

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(158); // ""
158.toString(16); // "9e"

Python

chr(158)           # control char 
ord(chr(158))      # 158
hex(158)           # '0x9e'

HTML

&#158;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+009E. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0x9E. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0x9E, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

Nearby codes

155 —

Character 155

156 —

Character 156

157 —

Character 157

159 —

Character 159

160 — NBSP

Non-Breaking Space

161 — ¡

Inverted Exclamation Mark