ASCII Code 150

About This Character

ASCII code 150 (0x96) represents the En dash character in the extended ASCII table (128–255). It is a typographic character used in professional publishing, quotation formatting, and editorial design. The extended ASCII range builds upon the original 128-character ASCII set, adding accented letters, currency symbols, typographic marks, and mathematical symbols. These characters are defined by the Windows-1252 (CP-1252) encoding, which is a superset of ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1). In modern web development, UTF-8 encoding is preferred, but understanding extended ASCII remains important for legacy system compatibility and character encoding troubleshooting.

Character Encoding

How to Type in Code

// Character literal
let char = '–';
// Using char code
let char2 = String.fromCharCode(150);
// Unicode escape
let char3 = '\u0096';

# Character literal
char = '–'
# Using chr()
char = chr(150)
# Using ord() to get code
code = ord('–')  # Returns 150

<!-- Direct character -->
–
<!-- HTML entity (numeric) -->
&#150;
<!-- Hex entity -->
&#x96;

// Character literal
char c = '–';
// Using cast
char c2 = (char)150;
// To get code from char
int code = (int)'–';  // Returns 150

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