ASCII Character: Non-breaking space

ASCII Code 160 · Unicode U+00A0 · Hex 0xA0

non-breaking-space nbsp

About the Non-breaking space Character

ASCII code 160 (0xA0) represents the Non-breaking space 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

ASCII Code	160
Hexadecimal	0xA0
Octal	240
Binary	10100000
Unicode	U+00A0
Unicode Name	NO-BREAK SPACE
HTML Numeric
HTML Entity
URL Escape	%A0
UTF-8 (Hex)	C2 A0
Quoted-Printable	=A0

Source Code Examples

JavaScript

// Character literal
let char = ' ';
// Using char code
let char2 = String.fromCharCode(160);
// Unicode escape
let char3 = '\u00A0';

Python

# Character literal
char = ' '
# Using chr()
char = chr(160)
# Using ord() to get code
code = ord(' ')  # Returns 160

HTML

<!-- Direct character -->
 
<!-- HTML entity (numeric) -->
&#160;
<!-- Hex entity -->
&#xA0;

// Character literal
char c = ' ';
// Using cast
char c2 = (char)160;
// To get code from char
int code = (int)' ';  // Returns 160

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