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ASCII 160

Non-Breaking Space (NBSP)

Latin-1 Supplement

Non-breaking space ( ). Prevents an automatic line break at its position; used in HTML to keep phrases like 'Mr. Smith' together.

All encodings at a glance

Decimal160
Hexadecimal0xA0
Octal0240
Binary10100000
HTML numeric entity 
HTML named entity 
URL encoding%A0
UTF-8 bytes0xC2 0xA0

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(160); // "NBSP"
160.toString(16); // "a0"

Python

chr(160)           # control char NBSP
ord(chr(160))      # 160
hex(160)           # '0xa0'

HTML

&nbsp;   <!-- named entity -->
&#160;   <!-- numeric entity -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+00A0. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0xA0. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xA0, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

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