ASCII 254

Character 254 (þ)

Latin-1 Supplement

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

All encodings at a glance

Decimal	254
Hexadecimal	0xFE
Octal	0376
Binary	11111110
HTML numeric entity	þ
URL encoding	%FE
UTF-8 bytes	0xC3 0xBE

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(254); // "þ"
254.toString(16); // "fe"

Python

chr(254)           # control char þ
ord(chr(254))      # 254
hex(254)           # '0xfe'

HTML

&#254;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

Unicode & UTF-8 note

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

Nearby codes

251 — û

Character 251

252 — ü

Character 252

253 — ý

Character 253

255 — ÿ

Character 255