ASCII 218
Uppercase U with acute accentBox top-left corner
ASCII 218 is Ú on Windows and ┌ in old DOS.
Ú (Capital U with Acute) is byte 218 in Windows-1252, Unicode U+00DA. Spanish uses it in capitals like ÚLTIMO, Hungarian starts words and place names with it (Új, Újpest), and Irish writes names like Úna with it. UTF-8 stores it as C3 9A, and 9A is š in Windows-1252, so ÚLTIMO comes out as ÚLTIMO. The HTML entity is Ú.
┌ (Light Down and Right) is byte 218 in code page 437, the original IBM PC character set, and maps to Unicode U+250C. It's the top-left corner of a single-line box, where ─ (196) heads right and │ (179) goes down, and it's the last piece of the box-drawing range that runs from 179 to 218. Frames get in the way when you copy data out of a terminal table, because the selection brings ┌, │ and ─ along with the values. Switch the tool to a plain output mode for that: psql has \pset border 0, and Python's tabulate has tablefmt='plain'. In UTF-8 it's E2 94 8C, 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 218 is Ú.Modern terminals expect UTF-8, so print the code point, not the byte. */printf("\u00DA\n"); /* UTF-8: C3 9A */unsigned char b = 218; /* the raw Windows-1252 byte */printf("%d 0x%02X\n", b, b); /* 218 0xDA */return 0;}
Code Example
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#include <stdio.h>int main(void) {/* Byte 218 is ┌ only on a console using code page 437(chcp 437 on Windows, or DOSBox). On a UTF-8 terminal thelone byte 0xDA is invalid and prints as garbage, often �. */putchar(218);/* char is signed on x86, so a plain char holding 0xDA is -38.Use unsigned char when you compare or index by byte value. */char c = (char)218;unsigned char u = 218;printf("\n%d %d\n", c, u); /* -38 218 *//* Portable: print the Unicode character as UTF-8 instead. */printf("\u250C\n"); /* E2 94 8C */return 0;}
How to Type It
- Windows
- Hold Alt and type 0218 on the numeric keypad, with Num Lock on. The leading zero picks the Windows code page. No numeric keypad? In Word, type 00DA and press Alt+X.
- Mac
- Press Option+Shift+;.
- Linux
- In GNOME, or any desktop running IBus, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type da, then Space. With a Compose key set up, press Compose, apostrophe, U.
- Phone
- Tap Shift, then long-press U and pick Ú.
How to Type It
- Windows
- Hold Alt and type 218 on the numeric keypad, with no leading zero. Windows reads it as a DOS code and inserts ┌. No numeric keypad? In Word, type 250C and press Alt+X.
- Mac
- Press Control+Command+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for "box drawings light down and right".
- Linux
- In GNOME, or any desktop running IBus, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 250c, 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
It's opening a UTF-8 file with a Windows-1252 decoder, usually because no encoding was given and the platform default took over. Name the encoding every time you read text. Older Java versions on Windows default to Windows-1252 (Java 18 switched the default to UTF-8), so pass `StandardCharsets.UTF_8` to your reader. In Python, `open(path, encoding='utf-8')` does the same job.
Yes, and Spanish spelling rules keep accents on capitals, so ÚLTIMO is the correct form. Without the accent, ultimo is a different word, the present tense of ultimar (I finalize), and ultimó with the accent at the end means he or she finalized. Headlines and signs in all caps that leave out the Ú are simply misspelled.
It was drawn in code page 437 and something decoded it as Windows-1252, where ┌ (218) is Ú, ─ (196) is Ä and ┐ (191) is ¿. The │ sides come out as ³. If the mangled text is all you have, say it was already pasted into a document, Python can put the box back: `s.encode('cp1252').decode('cp437')`.
Frequently Asked Questions
It was drawn in code page 437 and something decoded it as Windows-1252, where ┌ (218) is Ú, ─ (196) is Ä and ┐ (191) is ¿. The │ sides come out as ³. If the mangled text is all you have, say it was already pasted into a document, Python can put the box back: `s.encode('cp1252').decode('cp437')`.