ASCII Character: Latin capital letter Z with caron

About the Latin capital letter Z with caron Character

ASCII code 142 (0x8E) represents the Latin capital letter Z with caron character in the extended ASCII table (128–255). It is part of the extended ASCII character set defined by the Windows-1252 (CP-1252) encoding. 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.

Encoding Details

Source Code Examples

// Character literal
let char = 'Ž';
// Using char code
let char2 = String.fromCharCode(142);
// Unicode escape
let char3 = '\u008E';

# Character literal
char = 'Ž'
# Using chr()
char = chr(142)
# Using ord() to get code
code = ord('Ž')  # Returns 142

<!-- Direct character -->
Ž
<!-- HTML entity (numeric) -->
&#142;
<!-- Hex entity -->
&#x8E;

// Character literal
char c = 'Ž';
// Using cast
char c2 = (char)142;
// To get code from char
int code = (int)'Ž';  // Returns 142

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