ASCII 184
CedillaBox top-right corner, double horizontal
ASCII 184 is ¸ on Windows and ╕ in old DOS.
¸ (Cedilla) is byte 184 in Windows-1252, Unicode U+00B8. It's the hook from ç on its own, as a spacing mark that doesn't attach to a letter. The cedilla causes real trouble in Romanian. Correct Romanian writes ș and ț with a comma below (U+0219, U+021B), but older encodings such as ISO-8859-2 and Windows-1250 only offered the cedilla forms ş and ţ, so Romanian text from that era uses those instead. They look close, yet Unicode treats them as different letters and no normalization maps one to the other, so a search for București misses Bucureşti. Map ş to ș and ţ to ț yourself when you index Romanian text. In UTF-8 the cedilla is C2 B8, and the HTML entity is ¸.
╕ (Single Down, Double Left) is byte 184 in code page 437, the original IBM PC character set, and maps to Unicode U+2555. It's the top-right corner of a box with a double top edge and single sides: ═ (205) comes in from the left and │ (179) runs down. The rest of that box uses ╒ (213) at top left and ╘ (212) and ╛ (190) at the bottom. Code page 850 put © on this byte, so the same frame viewed in 850 gets a copyright sign in its corner. In UTF-8 it's E2 95 95, and the HTML entity is ╕.
Technical Details
Technical Details
Code Example
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#include <stdio.h>int main(void) {/* On Windows (code page 1252) byte 184 is ¸.Modern terminals expect UTF-8, so print the code point, not the byte. */printf("\u00B8\n"); /* UTF-8: C2 B8 */unsigned char b = 184; /* the raw Windows-1252 byte */printf("%d 0x%02X\n", b, b); /* 184 0xB8 */return 0;}
Code Example
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#include <stdio.h>int main(void) {/* Byte 184 is ╕ only on a console using code page 437(chcp 437 on Windows, or DOSBox). On a UTF-8 terminal thelone byte 0xB8 is invalid and prints as garbage, often �. */putchar(184);/* char is signed on x86, so a plain char holding 0xB8 is -72.Use unsigned char when you compare or index by byte value. */char c = (char)184;unsigned char u = 184;printf("\n%d %d\n", c, u); /* -72 184 *//* Portable: print the Unicode character as UTF-8 instead. */printf("\u2555\n"); /* E2 95 95 */return 0;}
How to Type It
- Windows
- Hold Alt and type 0184 on the numeric keypad, with Num Lock on. The leading zero picks the Windows code page. No numeric keypad? In Word, type 00B8 and press Alt+X.
- Mac
- Press Option+Shift+Z. Option+Shift+0 gives ‚ (single low-9 quotation mark), which looks similar but is a different character.
- Linux
- In GNOME, or any desktop running IBus, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type b8, then Space. With a Compose key set up, press Compose, comma, space.
- Phone
- Tap the character at the top of this page to copy it.
How to Type It
- Windows
- Hold Alt and type 184 on the numeric keypad, with no leading zero. US PCs insert ╕, but PCs set to code page 850, common in Western Europe, insert ©. No numeric keypad? In Word, type 2555 and press Alt+X.
- Mac
- Press Control+Command+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for "box drawings down single and left double".
- Linux
- In GNOME, or any desktop running IBus, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 2555, then Space.
- Phone
- Phone keyboards have no key for it. Tap the character at the top of this page to copy it.
Frequently Asked Questions
The PDF draws ç as two glyphs, a c and a separate cedilla, and copying hands you both as characters, so François comes out as Franc¸ois. LaTeX documents built with the old default font encoding do this. If you wrote the document, add `\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}` and rebuild. If you're cleaning pasted text, replace c¸ with ç and C¸ with Ç.