ASCII 171
Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark («)
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 character.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 171 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xAB |
| Octal | 0253 |
| Binary | 10101011 |
| HTML numeric entity | « |
| HTML named entity | « |
| URL encoding | %AB |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC2 0xAB |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(171); // "«"
171.toString(16); // "ab"Python
chr(171) # control char «
ord(chr(171)) # 171
hex(171) # '0xab'HTML
« <!-- named entity -->
« <!-- numeric entity -->Unicode & UTF-8 note
In Unicode this is U+00AB. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0xAB. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xAB, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.