ASCII 253

Character 253 (ý)

Latin-1 Supplement

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

All encodings at a glance

Decimal	253
Hexadecimal	0xFD
Octal	0375
Binary	11111101
HTML numeric entity	ý
URL encoding	%FD
UTF-8 bytes	0xC3 0xBD

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(253); // "ý"
253.toString(16); // "fd"

Python

chr(253)           # control char ý
ord(chr(253))      # 253
hex(253)           # '0xfd'

HTML

&#253;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

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

Nearby codes

250 — ú

Character 250

251 — û

Character 251

252 — ü

Character 252

254 — þ

Character 254

255 — ÿ

Character 255