ASCII 202
Character 202 (Ê)
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin capital letter Ê. Common in Western European languages (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese).
Common uses & context
Decimal 202 (0xCA) is Character 202, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255). Latin capital letter Ê. Common in Western European languages (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese). It renders as 'Ê' and its binary byte is 11001010.
This is where single-byte ASCII ends and encoding matters. In Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) 'Ê' is the single byte 0xCA. In UTF-8 — today's default for the web — the same character is the multi-byte sequence 0xC3 0x8A. 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+00CA, and in HTML you can write it as Ê.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 202 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xCA |
| Octal | 0312 |
| Binary | 11001010 |
| HTML numeric entity | Ê |
| URL encoding | %CA |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC3 0x8A |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(202); // "Ê"
202.toString(16); // "ca"Python
chr(202) # control char Ê
ord(chr(202)) # 202
hex(202) # '0xca'HTML
Ê <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->Programming notes
- ▸Single byte 0xCA in Latin-1, but the multi-byte sequence 0xC3 0x8A in UTF-8 — never assume one byte per character above code 127.
- ▸Unicode code point U+00CA; HTML numeric entity Ê.
- ▸If 'Ê' 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+00CA. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC3 0x8A. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xCA, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.
Frequently asked questions
What character is ASCII code 202?
ASCII code 202 is the character 'Ê' (Character 202). In hexadecimal it is 0xCA, in octal 0312, and in binary 11001010.
What is 0xCA in ASCII?
Hexadecimal 0xCA equals decimal 202, which is the character 'Ê' (Character 202). To convert hex to ASCII yourself, read the two hex digits as a base-16 number (0xCA = 202) and look up that code point.
How do I write the character with code 202 in code?
In JavaScript use String.fromCharCode(202); in Python use chr(202); in HTML use the numeric entity Ê. In a URL it is percent-encoded as %CA, and in UTF-8 it is stored as the byte sequence 0xC3 0x8A.
Is 'Ê' part of standard ASCII?
No. Standard ASCII covers codes 0–127 only. 'Ê' is code 202, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255, sometimes called "extended ASCII"). It is a single byte 0xCA in Latin-1 but a multi-byte sequence (0xC3 0x8A) in UTF-8.