ASCII 226

Character 226 (â)

Latin-1 Supplement

Latin small letter â. Common in Western European languages.

All encodings at a glance

Decimal	226
Hexadecimal	0xE2
Octal	0342
Binary	11100010
HTML numeric entity	â
URL encoding	%E2
UTF-8 bytes	0xC3 0xA2

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(226); // "â"
226.toString(16); // "e2"

Python

chr(226)           # control char â
ord(chr(226))      # 226
hex(226)           # '0xe2'

HTML

&#226;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+00E2. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC3 0xA2. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xE2, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

Nearby codes

223 — ß

Character 223

224 — à

Character 224

225 — á

Character 225

227 — ã

Character 227

228 — ä

Character 228

229 — å

Character 229