ASCII 228

Character 228 (ä)

Latin-1 Supplement

Latin small letter ä. Common in Western European languages.

All encodings at a glance

Decimal	228
Hexadecimal	0xE4
Octal	0344
Binary	11100100
HTML numeric entity	ä
URL encoding	%E4
UTF-8 bytes	0xC3 0xA4

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(228); // "ä"
228.toString(16); // "e4"

Python

chr(228)           # control char ä
ord(chr(228))      # 228
hex(228)           # '0xe4'

HTML

&#228;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

In Unicode this is U+00E4. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC3 0xA4. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xE4, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.

Nearby codes

225 — á

Character 225

226 — â

Character 226

227 — ã

Character 227

229 — å

Character 229

230 — æ

Character 230

231 — ç

Character 231