ASCII 184
Cedilla (¸)
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 character.
Common uses & context
Decimal 184 (0xB8) is Cedilla, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255). Latin-1 character. It renders as '¸' and its binary byte is 10111000.
This is where single-byte ASCII ends and encoding matters. In Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) '¸' is the single byte 0xB8. In UTF-8 — today's default for the web — the same character is the multi-byte sequence 0xC2 0xB8. 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+00B8, and in HTML you can write it as ¸ or ¸.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 184 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xB8 |
| Octal | 0270 |
| Binary | 10111000 |
| HTML numeric entity | ¸ |
| HTML named entity | ¸ |
| URL encoding | %B8 |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC2 0xB8 |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(184); // "¸"
184.toString(16); // "b8"Python
chr(184) # control char ¸
ord(chr(184)) # 184
hex(184) # '0xb8'HTML
¸ <!-- named entity -->
¸ <!-- numeric entity -->Programming notes
- ▸Single byte 0xB8 in Latin-1, but the multi-byte sequence 0xC2 0xB8 in UTF-8 — never assume one byte per character above code 127.
- ▸Unicode code point U+00B8; 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+00B8. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0xB8. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xB8, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.
Frequently asked questions
What character is ASCII code 184?
ASCII code 184 is the character '¸' (Cedilla). In hexadecimal it is 0xB8, in octal 0270, and in binary 10111000.
What is 0xB8 in ASCII?
Hexadecimal 0xB8 equals decimal 184, which is the character '¸' (Cedilla). To convert hex to ASCII yourself, read the two hex digits as a base-16 number (0xB8 = 184) and look up that code point.
How do I write the character with code 184 in code?
In JavaScript use String.fromCharCode(184); in Python use chr(184); in HTML use the numeric entity ¸ or the named entity ¸. In a URL it is percent-encoded as %B8, and in UTF-8 it is stored as the byte sequence 0xC2 0xB8.
Is '¸' part of standard ASCII?
No. Standard ASCII covers codes 0–127 only. '¸' is code 184, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255, sometimes called "extended ASCII"). It is a single byte 0xB8 in Latin-1 but a multi-byte sequence (0xC2 0xB8) in UTF-8.