ASCII Code 190

About This Character

ASCII code 190 (0xBE) represents the Vulgar fraction three quarters character in the extended ASCII table (128–255). It is a vulgar fraction character, providing a compact way to display common fractional values in text. 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 = '¾';
// Using char code
let char2 = String.fromCharCode(190);
// Unicode escape
let char3 = '\u00BE';

# Character literal
char = '¾'
# Using chr()
char = chr(190)
# Using ord() to get code
code = ord('¾')  # Returns 190

<!-- Direct character -->
¾
<!-- HTML entity (numeric) -->
&#190;
<!-- Hex entity -->
&#xBE;

// Character literal
char c = '¾';
// Using cast
char c2 = (char)190;
// To get code from char
int code = (int)'¾';  // Returns 190

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