ASCII 176
Degree Sign (°)
Latin-1 Supplement
Degree sign (°). Used with temperatures (25°C) and angles (90°).
Common uses & context
Decimal 176 (0xB0) is Degree Sign, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255). Degree sign (°). Used with temperatures (25°C) and angles (90°). It renders as '°' and its binary byte is 10110000.
This is where single-byte ASCII ends and encoding matters. In Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) '°' is the single byte 0xB0. In UTF-8 — today's default for the web — the same character is the multi-byte sequence 0xC2 0xB0. 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+00B0, and in HTML you can write it as ° or °.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 176 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xB0 |
| Octal | 0260 |
| Binary | 10110000 |
| HTML numeric entity | ° |
| HTML named entity | ° |
| URL encoding | %B0 |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC2 0xB0 |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(176); // "°"
176.toString(16); // "b0"Python
chr(176) # control char °
ord(chr(176)) # 176
hex(176) # '0xb0'HTML
° <!-- named entity -->
° <!-- numeric entity -->Programming notes
- ▸Single byte 0xB0 in Latin-1, but the multi-byte sequence 0xC2 0xB0 in UTF-8 — never assume one byte per character above code 127.
- ▸Unicode code point U+00B0; 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+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.
Frequently asked questions
What character is ASCII code 176?
ASCII code 176 is the character '°' (Degree Sign). In hexadecimal it is 0xB0, in octal 0260, and in binary 10110000.
What is 0xB0 in ASCII?
Hexadecimal 0xB0 equals decimal 176, which is the character '°' (Degree Sign). To convert hex to ASCII yourself, read the two hex digits as a base-16 number (0xB0 = 176) and look up that code point.
How do I write the character with code 176 in code?
In JavaScript use String.fromCharCode(176); in Python use chr(176); in HTML use the numeric entity ° or the named entity °. In a URL it is percent-encoded as %B0, and in UTF-8 it is stored as the byte sequence 0xC2 0xB0.
Is '°' part of standard ASCII?
No. Standard ASCII covers codes 0–127 only. '°' is code 176, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255, sometimes called "extended ASCII"). It is a single byte 0xB0 in Latin-1 but a multi-byte sequence (0xC2 0xB0) in UTF-8.