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ASCII 162

Cent Sign (¢)

Latin-1 Supplement

Latin-1 character.

All encodings at a glance

Decimal162
Hexadecimal0xA2
Octal0242
Binary10100010
HTML numeric entity¢
HTML named entity¢
URL encoding%A2
UTF-8 bytes0xC2 0xA2

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(162); // "¢"
162.toString(16); // "a2"

Python

chr(162)           # control char ¢
ord(chr(162))      # 162
hex(162)           # '0xa2'

HTML

&cent;   <!-- named entity -->
&#162;   <!-- numeric entity -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+00A2. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0xA2. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xA2, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

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