ASCII is a 7-bit character encoding with values from 0 to 127, including control characters and printable characters.

What is the ASCII code for A?

The uppercase letter A is decimal 65, hexadecimal 41, and binary 01000001.

Code reference

ASCII Table

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0-127

Search Range

Showing 128 ASCII codes.

Selected character A Uppercase letter A

Dec65

Hex41

Binary01000001

HTMLA

Reference table

Dec	Hex	Binary	HTML	Char	Description	Group

0-31Non-printing control characters originally used for terminals, printers, and communication control.

9, 10, 13Tab, line feed, and carriage return still appear in text files, logs, CSV, and protocol data.

32-126Printable ASCII characters: space, punctuation, digits, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and symbols.

127DEL is a control character historically used for delete/rubout.

ASCIIASCII is a 7-bit character set with values 0 through 127.

UTF-8 compatibilityThe first 128 Unicode code points match ASCII, so ASCII text is valid UTF-8.

Extended ASCIIValues 128-255 are not one universal ASCII table; they depend on the selected code page.

HTML entityNumeric HTML entities such as A can represent ASCII and Unicode code points in HTML.

What is ASCII?

ASCII is a 7-bit character encoding with decimal values 0 through 127. It includes control characters and printable characters.

What is ASCII code for A?

Uppercase A is decimal 65, hexadecimal 41, binary 01000001, and HTML entity A.

Why is extended ASCII confusing?

Codes above 127 are not part of the original 7-bit ASCII standard. Different encodings and code pages assign different characters to those values.