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ASCII 161

Inverted Exclamation Mark (¡)

Latin-1 Supplement

Latin-1 character.

All encodings at a glance

Decimal161
Hexadecimal0xA1
Octal0241
Binary10100001
HTML numeric entity¡
HTML named entity¡
URL encoding%A1
UTF-8 bytes0xC2 0xA1

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(161); // "¡"
161.toString(16); // "a1"

Python

chr(161)           # control char ¡
ord(chr(161))      # 161
hex(161)           # '0xa1'

HTML

&iexcl;   <!-- named entity -->
&#161;   <!-- numeric entity -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+00A1. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0xA1. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xA1, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

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