ASCII 162
Cent Sign (¢)
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 character.
Common uses & context
Decimal 162 (0xA2) is Cent Sign, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255). Latin-1 character. It renders as '¢' and its binary byte is 10100010.
This is where single-byte ASCII ends and encoding matters. In Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) '¢' is the single byte 0xA2. In UTF-8 — today's default for the web — the same character is the multi-byte sequence 0xC2 0xA2. Treating a Latin-1 byte as UTF-8 (or vice versa) is the usual reason accented letters and symbols turn into mojibake like é or €. The Unicode code point is U+00A2, and in HTML you can write it as ¢ or ¢.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 162 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xA2 |
| Octal | 0242 |
| Binary | 10100010 |
| HTML numeric entity | ¢ |
| HTML named entity | ¢ |
| URL encoding | %A2 |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC2 0xA2 |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(162); // "¢"
162.toString(16); // "a2"Python
chr(162) # control char ¢
ord(chr(162)) # 162
hex(162) # '0xa2'HTML
¢ <!-- named entity -->
¢ <!-- numeric entity -->Programming notes
- ▸Single byte 0xA2 in Latin-1, but the multi-byte sequence 0xC2 0xA2 in UTF-8 — never assume one byte per character above code 127.
- ▸Unicode code point U+00A2; HTML entity ¢.
- ▸If '¢' shows as mojibake, the encoding declared and the encoding used disagree — align both on UTF-8.
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.
Frequently asked questions
What character is ASCII code 162?
ASCII code 162 is the character '¢' (Cent Sign). In hexadecimal it is 0xA2, in octal 0242, and in binary 10100010.
What is 0xA2 in ASCII?
Hexadecimal 0xA2 equals decimal 162, which is the character '¢' (Cent Sign). To convert hex to ASCII yourself, read the two hex digits as a base-16 number (0xA2 = 162) and look up that code point.
How do I write the character with code 162 in code?
In JavaScript use String.fromCharCode(162); in Python use chr(162); in HTML use the numeric entity ¢ or the named entity ¢. In a URL it is percent-encoded as %A2, and in UTF-8 it is stored as the byte sequence 0xC2 0xA2.
Is '¢' part of standard ASCII?
No. Standard ASCII covers codes 0–127 only. '¢' is code 162, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255, sometimes called "extended ASCII"). It is a single byte 0xA2 in Latin-1 but a multi-byte sequence (0xC2 0xA2) in UTF-8.