ASCII 205
Character 205 (Í)
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin capital letter Í. Common in Western European languages (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese).
Common uses & context
Decimal 205 (0xCD) is Character 205, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255). Latin capital letter Í. Common in Western European languages (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese). It renders as 'Í' and its binary byte is 11001101.
This is where single-byte ASCII ends and encoding matters. In Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) 'Í' is the single byte 0xCD. In UTF-8 — today's default for the web — the same character is the multi-byte sequence 0xC3 0x8D. 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+00CD, and in HTML you can write it as Í.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 205 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xCD |
| Octal | 0315 |
| Binary | 11001101 |
| HTML numeric entity | Í |
| URL encoding | %CD |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC3 0x8D |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(205); // "Í"
205.toString(16); // "cd"Python
chr(205) # control char Í
ord(chr(205)) # 205
hex(205) # '0xcd'HTML
Í <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->Programming notes
- ▸Single byte 0xCD in Latin-1, but the multi-byte sequence 0xC3 0x8D in UTF-8 — never assume one byte per character above code 127.
- ▸Unicode code point U+00CD; HTML numeric entity Í.
- ▸If 'Í' 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+00CD. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC3 0x8D. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xCD, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.
Frequently asked questions
What character is ASCII code 205?
ASCII code 205 is the character 'Í' (Character 205). In hexadecimal it is 0xCD, in octal 0315, and in binary 11001101.
What is 0xCD in ASCII?
Hexadecimal 0xCD equals decimal 205, which is the character 'Í' (Character 205). To convert hex to ASCII yourself, read the two hex digits as a base-16 number (0xCD = 205) and look up that code point.
How do I write the character with code 205 in code?
In JavaScript use String.fromCharCode(205); in Python use chr(205); in HTML use the numeric entity Í. In a URL it is percent-encoded as %CD, and in UTF-8 it is stored as the byte sequence 0xC3 0x8D.
Is 'Í' part of standard ASCII?
No. Standard ASCII covers codes 0–127 only. 'Í' is code 205, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255, sometimes called "extended ASCII"). It is a single byte 0xCD in Latin-1 but a multi-byte sequence (0xC3 0x8D) in UTF-8.