ASCII 223

Character 223 (ß)

Latin-1 Supplement

German eszett (ß). Used exclusively in lowercase; the uppercase form ẞ was added to Unicode in 2008.

All encodings at a glance

Decimal	223
Hexadecimal	0xDF
Octal	0337
Binary	11011111
HTML numeric entity	ß
URL encoding	%DF
UTF-8 bytes	0xC3 0x9F

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(223); // "ß"
223.toString(16); // "df"

Python

chr(223)           # control char ß
ord(chr(223))      # 223
hex(223)           # '0xdf'

HTML

&#223;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+00DF. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC3 0x9F. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xDF, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

Nearby codes

220 — Ü

Character 220

221 — Ý

Character 221

222 — Þ

Character 222

224 — à

Character 224

225 — á

Character 225

226 — â

Character 226