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ASCII 171

Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark («)

Latin-1 Supplement

Latin-1 character.

All encodings at a glance

Decimal171
Hexadecimal0xAB
Octal0253
Binary10101011
HTML numeric entity«
HTML named entity«
URL encoding%AB
UTF-8 bytes0xC2 0xAB

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(171); // "«"
171.toString(16); // "ab"

Python

chr(171)           # control char «
ord(chr(171))      # 171
hex(171)           # '0xab'

HTML

&laquo;   <!-- named entity -->
&#171;   <!-- 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.

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