ASCII 196

Character 196 (Ä)

Latin-1 Supplement

Latin capital letter Ä. Common in Western European languages (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese).

All encodings at a glance

Decimal	196
Hexadecimal	0xC4
Octal	0304
Binary	11000100
HTML numeric entity	Ä
URL encoding	%C4
UTF-8 bytes	0xC3 0x84

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(196); // "Ä"
196.toString(16); // "c4"

Python

chr(196)           # control char Ä
ord(chr(196))      # 196
hex(196)           # '0xc4'

HTML

&#196;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+00C4. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC3 0x84. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xC4, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

Nearby codes

193 — Á

Character 193

194 — Â

Character 194

195 — Ã

Character 195

197 — Å

Character 197

198 — Æ

Character 198

199 — Ç

Character 199