ASCII 204
Character 204 (Ì)
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin capital letter Ì. Common in Western European languages (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese).
Common uses & context
Decimal 204 (0xCC) is Character 204, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255). Latin capital letter Ì. Common in Western European languages (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese). It renders as 'Ì' and its binary byte is 11001100.
This is where single-byte ASCII ends and encoding matters. In Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) 'Ì' is the single byte 0xCC. In UTF-8 — today's default for the web — the same character is the multi-byte sequence 0xC3 0x8C. 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+00CC, and in HTML you can write it as Ì.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 204 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xCC |
| Octal | 0314 |
| Binary | 11001100 |
| HTML numeric entity | Ì |
| URL encoding | %CC |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC3 0x8C |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(204); // "Ì"
204.toString(16); // "cc"Python
chr(204) # control char Ì
ord(chr(204)) # 204
hex(204) # '0xcc'HTML
Ì <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->Programming notes
- ▸Single byte 0xCC in Latin-1, but the multi-byte sequence 0xC3 0x8C in UTF-8 — never assume one byte per character above code 127.
- ▸Unicode code point U+00CC; HTML numeric entity Ì.
- ▸If 'Ì' 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+00CC. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC3 0x8C. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xCC, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.
Frequently asked questions
What character is ASCII code 204?
ASCII code 204 is the character 'Ì' (Character 204). In hexadecimal it is 0xCC, in octal 0314, and in binary 11001100.
What is 0xCC in ASCII?
Hexadecimal 0xCC equals decimal 204, which is the character 'Ì' (Character 204). To convert hex to ASCII yourself, read the two hex digits as a base-16 number (0xCC = 204) and look up that code point.
How do I write the character with code 204 in code?
In JavaScript use String.fromCharCode(204); in Python use chr(204); in HTML use the numeric entity Ì. In a URL it is percent-encoded as %CC, and in UTF-8 it is stored as the byte sequence 0xC3 0x8C.
Is 'Ì' part of standard ASCII?
No. Standard ASCII covers codes 0–127 only. 'Ì' is code 204, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255, sometimes called "extended ASCII"). It is a single byte 0xCC in Latin-1 but a multi-byte sequence (0xC3 0x8C) in UTF-8.