ASCII 179

Superscript Three (³)

Latin-1 Supplement

Latin-1 character.

All encodings at a glance

Decimal	179
Hexadecimal	0xB3
Octal	0263
Binary	10110011
HTML numeric entity	³
HTML named entity	³
URL encoding	%B3
UTF-8 bytes	0xC2 0xB3

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(179); // "³"
179.toString(16); // "b3"

Python

chr(179)           # control char ³
ord(chr(179))      # 179
hex(179)           # '0xb3'

HTML

&sup3;   <!-- named entity -->
&#179;   <!-- numeric entity -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+00B3. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0xB3. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xB3, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

Nearby codes

176 — °

Degree Sign

177 — ±

Plus-Minus Sign

178 — ²

Superscript Two

180 — ´

Acute Accent

181 — µ

Micro Sign

182 — ¶

Pilcrow Sign