ASCII Character: Vulgar fraction one quarter

About the Vulgar fraction one quarter Character

ASCII code 188 (0xBC) represents the Vulgar fraction one quarter 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.

Encoding Details

Source Code Examples

// Character literal
let char = '¼';
// Using char code
let char2 = String.fromCharCode(188);
// Unicode escape
let char3 = '\u00BC';

# Character literal
char = '¼'
# Using chr()
char = chr(188)
# Using ord() to get code
code = ord('¼')  # Returns 188

<!-- Direct character -->
¼
<!-- HTML entity (numeric) -->
&#188;
<!-- Hex entity -->
&#xBC;

// Character literal
char c = '¼';
// Using cast
char c2 = (char)188;
// To get code from char
int code = (int)'¼';  // Returns 188

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