ASCII 251

Character 251 (û)

Latin-1 Supplement

Latin small letter with diacritic. Used in Northern European alphabets.

All encodings at a glance

Decimal	251
Hexadecimal	0xFB
Octal	0373
Binary	11111011
HTML numeric entity	û
URL encoding	%FB
UTF-8 bytes	0xC3 0xBB

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(251); // "û"
251.toString(16); // "fb"

Python

chr(251)           # control char û
ord(chr(251))      # 251
hex(251)           # '0xfb'

HTML

&#251;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

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

Nearby codes

248 — ø

Character 248

249 — ù

Character 249

250 — ú

Character 250

252 — ü

Character 252

253 — ý

Character 253

254 — þ

Character 254