ASCII 192
Uppercase A with grave accentBox bottom-left corner
ASCII 192 is À on Windows and └ in old DOS.
À (Capital A with Grave) is byte 192 in Windows-1252, Unicode U+00C0. It starts French phrases like À bientôt and À la carte, and Portuguese capitalizes the contraction à (to the) as À at the start of a sentence. Its garbled form looks like money: UTF-8 stores À as C3 80, and 80 is the euro sign in Windows-1252, so À bientôt turns into À bientôt. The HTML entity is À.
└ (Light Up and Right) is byte 192 in code page 437, the original IBM PC character set, and maps to Unicode U+2514. It's the bottom-left corner of a single-line box, where │ (179) comes down and ─ (196) heads right, and in directory trees it marks the last entry in a folder: └── README.md. Paste that tree into a chat or a document without a code block and it falls apart, because a proportional font gives each line a different width and the branches stop lining up under their parents. Wrap it in a code block so it stays monospaced. In UTF-8 it's E2 94 94, 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 192 is À.Modern terminals expect UTF-8, so print the code point, not the byte. */printf("\u00C0\n"); /* UTF-8: C3 80 */unsigned char b = 192; /* the raw Windows-1252 byte */printf("%d 0x%02X\n", b, b); /* 192 0xC0 */return 0;}
Code Example
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#include <stdio.h>int main(void) {/* Byte 192 is └ only on a console using code page 437(chcp 437 on Windows, or DOSBox). On a UTF-8 terminal thelone byte 0xC0 is invalid and prints as garbage, often �. */putchar(192);/* char is signed on x86, so a plain char holding 0xC0 is -64.Use unsigned char when you compare or index by byte value. */char c = (char)192;unsigned char u = 192;printf("\n%d %d\n", c, u); /* -64 192 *//* Portable: print the Unicode character as UTF-8 instead. */printf("\u2514\n"); /* E2 94 94 */return 0;}
How to Type It
- Windows
- Hold Alt and type 0192 on the numeric keypad, with Num Lock on. The leading zero picks the Windows code page. No numeric keypad? In Word, type 00C0 and press Alt+X.
- Mac
- Press Option+`, then Shift+A.
- Linux
- In GNOME, or any desktop running IBus, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type c0, then Space. With a Compose key set up, press Compose, backtick, A.
- Phone
- Tap Shift, then long-press A and pick À.
How to Type It
- Windows
- Hold Alt and type 192 on the numeric keypad, with no leading zero. Windows reads it as a DOS code and inserts └. No numeric keypad? In Word, type 2514 and press Alt+X.
- Mac
- Press Control+Command+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for "box drawings light up and right".
- Linux
- In GNOME, or any desktop running IBus, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 2514, 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
Keep it if you can type it. English dictionaries list both à la carte and a la carte, so neither is wrong in English, but the accent is what makes it French: à is the preposition, while a without the accent is a form of the verb avoir. On a menu heading, write À la carte with the capital accented.
The text was decoded as ISO-8859-1 rather than Windows-1252. À's second UTF-8 byte is 80, which Windows-1252 shows as €, but in ISO-8859-1 it's an invisible control character, so only the à is left on screen. If the mangled string is already stored, `s.encode('latin-1').decode('utf-8')` in Python puts the À back.
Because 192 without the zero is read from the DOS table, where it's the single-line corner └ in both the US and Western European sets. Alt+0192 gives À. The US DOS set has no À at all, and the Western European one keeps it at 183, so Alt+183 types À there and ╖ on a US machine.
Frequently Asked Questions
Because 192 without the zero is read from the DOS table, where it's the single-line corner └ in both the US and Western European sets. Alt+0192 gives À. The US DOS set has no À at all, and the Western European one keeps it at 183, so Alt+183 types À there and ╖ on a US machine.