ASCII Code 162

About This Character

ASCII code 162 (0xA2) represents the Cent sign character in the extended ASCII table (128–255). It is a widely recognized symbol used in international commerce, intellectual property, or mathematical notation. 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(162);
// Unicode escape
let char3 = '\u00A2';

# Character literal
char = '¢'
# Using chr()
char = chr(162)
# Using ord() to get code
code = ord('¢')  # Returns 162

<!-- Direct character -->
¢
<!-- HTML entity (numeric) -->
&#162;
<!-- Hex entity -->
&#xA2;

// Character literal
char c = '¢';
// Using cast
char c2 = (char)162;
// To get code from char
int code = (int)'¢';  // Returns 162

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