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ASCII 176

Degree Sign (°)

Latin-1 Supplement

Degree sign (°). Used with temperatures (25°C) and angles (90°).

All encodings at a glance

Decimal176
Hexadecimal0xB0
Octal0260
Binary10110000
HTML numeric entity°
HTML named entity°
URL encoding%B0
UTF-8 bytes0xC2 0xB0

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(176); // "°"
176.toString(16); // "b0"

Python

chr(176)           # control char °
ord(chr(176))      # 176
hex(176)           # '0xb0'

HTML

&deg;   <!-- named entity -->
&#176;   <!-- numeric entity -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+00B0. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0xB0. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xB0, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

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