ASCII Character: Left double quotation mark

About the Left double quotation mark Character

ASCII code 147 (0x93) represents the Left double quotation mark 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.

Encoding Details

Source Code Examples

// Character literal
let char = '“';
// Using char code
let char2 = String.fromCharCode(147);
// Unicode escape
let char3 = '\u0093';

# Character literal
char = '“'
# Using chr()
char = chr(147)
# Using ord() to get code
code = ord('“')  # Returns 147

<!-- Direct character -->
“
<!-- HTML entity (numeric) -->
&#147;
<!-- Hex entity -->
&#x93;

// Character literal
char c = '“';
// Using cast
char c2 = (char)147;
// To get code from char
int code = (int)'“';  // Returns 147

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