ASCII 149
BulletLowercase o with grave accent
ASCII 149 is • on Windows and ò in old DOS.
• (Bullet) is byte 149 in Windows-1252, Unicode U+2022. It's a list marker, and a separator in footers and nav bars (Home • About). Copying a list out of Word or Google Docs into Markdown or a plain-text field is where it misbehaves. The bullets arrive as literal • characters, so Markdown doesn't see a list, and the items can run together into one paragraph. Swap them for a hyphen or an asterisk at the start of each line. Don't confuse it with the middle dot · (byte 183), which is smaller and means something else in several languages. In UTF-8 the bullet is E2 80 A2, which turns into • when read as Windows-1252. The HTML entity is •.
ò (Small O with Grave) is byte 149 in code page 437, the original IBM PC character set, and maps to Unicode U+00F2. Windows-1252 has the bullet • at 149, so Italian DOS text read as Windows-1252 turns però into per•, and the word seems to end in a list marker. Code page 850 kept ò at 149 too.
Technical Details
Technical Details
Code Example
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#include <stdio.h>int main(void) {/* On Windows (code page 1252) byte 149 is •.Modern terminals expect UTF-8, so print the code point, not the byte. */printf("\u2022\n"); /* UTF-8: E2 80 A2 */unsigned char b = 149; /* the raw Windows-1252 byte */printf("%d 0x%02X\n", b, b); /* 149 0x95 */return 0;}
Code Example
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#include <stdio.h>int main(void) {/* Byte 149 is ò only on a console using code page 437(chcp 437 on Windows, or DOSBox). On a UTF-8 terminal thelone byte 0x95 is invalid and prints as garbage, often �. */putchar(149);/* char is signed on x86, so a plain char holding 0x95 is -107.Use unsigned char when you compare or index by byte value. */char c = (char)149;unsigned char u = 149;printf("\n%d %d\n", c, u); /* -107 149 *//* Portable: print the Unicode character as UTF-8 instead. */printf("\u00F2\n"); /* C3 B2 */return 0;}
How to Type It
- Windows
- Hold Alt and type 0149 on the numeric keypad, with Num Lock on. The leading zero picks the Windows code page. No numeric keypad? In Word, type 2022 and press Alt+X.
- Mac
- Press Option+8. Option+Shift+9 gives · (middle dot), which looks similar but is a different character.
- Linux
- In GNOME, or any desktop running IBus, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 2022, then Space. With a Compose key set up, press Compose, period, equals.
- Phone
- iPhone: tap 123, then #+= and tap •. Android (Gboard): tap ?123, then =\< and tap •.
How to Type It
- Windows
- Hold Alt and type 149 on the numeric keypad, with no leading zero. Windows reads it as a DOS code and inserts ò.
ò is also ASCII 242 on Windows, which has the full guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
Style the marker itself: `li::marker { color: #c00; }` recolors the bullet and leaves the text alone. The ::marker selector only accepts a short list of properties, mainly color, font settings and content. For extra spacing or custom shapes, set list-style: none and draw your own bullet with li::before.
Use a formula: `=UNICHAR(8226)&" "&A1` puts a bullet and a space before the text in A1. On Windows, CHAR(149) gives the same bullet because CHAR reads the Windows-1252 table, but UNICHAR takes the Unicode number and doesn't depend on it. For several bullets in one cell, join the lines with CHAR(10) and turn on wrap text.
Alt+149 goes to the DOS table, where 149 is ò. Add the zero, Alt+0149, and you're in Windows-1252, where 149 is •. There's a shorter route that surprises people too: Alt+7 types •, because the original IBM PC drew code 7 as a bullet on screen.
Those bullets are the letter ò. DOS code pages keep it at byte 149, where Windows-1252 has •, so però turns into per• and può into pu•. If you're loading the file into SQL Server, `BULK INSERT ... WITH (CODEPAGE = '850')` reads it with the right table.
Frequently Asked Questions
Alt+149 goes to the DOS table, where 149 is ò. Add the zero, Alt+0149, and you're in Windows-1252, where 149 is •. There's a shorter route that surprises people too: Alt+7 types •, because the original IBM PC drew code 7 as a bullet on screen.
Those bullets are the letter ò. DOS code pages keep it at byte 149, where Windows-1252 has •, so però turns into per• and può into pu•. If you're loading the file into SQL Server, `BULK INSERT ... WITH (CODEPAGE = '850')` reads it with the right table.