ASCII 250
Character 250 (ú)
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin small letter with diacritic. Used in Northern European alphabets.
Common uses & context
Decimal 250 (0xFA) is Character 250, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255). Latin small letter with diacritic. Used in Northern European alphabets. It renders as 'ú' and its binary byte is 11111010.
This is where single-byte ASCII ends and encoding matters. In Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) 'ú' is the single byte 0xFA. In UTF-8 — today's default for the web — the same character is the multi-byte sequence 0xC3 0xBA. 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+00FA, and in HTML you can write it as ú.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 250 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xFA |
| Octal | 0372 |
| Binary | 11111010 |
| HTML numeric entity | ú |
| URL encoding | %FA |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC3 0xBA |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(250); // "ú"
250.toString(16); // "fa"Python
chr(250) # control char ú
ord(chr(250)) # 250
hex(250) # '0xfa'HTML
ú <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->Programming notes
- ▸Single byte 0xFA in Latin-1, but the multi-byte sequence 0xC3 0xBA in UTF-8 — never assume one byte per character above code 127.
- ▸Unicode code point U+00FA; HTML numeric entity ú.
- ▸If 'ú' 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+00FA. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC3 0xBA. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xFA, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.
Frequently asked questions
What character is ASCII code 250?
ASCII code 250 is the character 'ú' (Character 250). In hexadecimal it is 0xFA, in octal 0372, and in binary 11111010.
What is 0xFA in ASCII?
Hexadecimal 0xFA equals decimal 250, which is the character 'ú' (Character 250). To convert hex to ASCII yourself, read the two hex digits as a base-16 number (0xFA = 250) and look up that code point.
How do I write the character with code 250 in code?
In JavaScript use String.fromCharCode(250); in Python use chr(250); in HTML use the numeric entity ú. In a URL it is percent-encoded as %FA, and in UTF-8 it is stored as the byte sequence 0xC3 0xBA.
Is 'ú' part of standard ASCII?
No. Standard ASCII covers codes 0–127 only. 'ú' is code 250, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255, sometimes called "extended ASCII"). It is a single byte 0xFA in Latin-1 but a multi-byte sequence (0xC3 0xBA) in UTF-8.