ASCII Code 173

In the ISO-8859-9 character set, ASCII code 173 is represented by non-printing character also known as the soft hyphen.

ASCII Character
Decimal	173
Octal	255
Hexadecimal	AD
Binary	1010 1101
Description	Soft hyphen
Category	Extended ASCII Codes
Character encoding	ISO-8859-9 (iso-ir-148, latin5, l5, csISOLatin5)
Unicode	The character is mapped in Unicode as U+00AD
More information about character

Encoding

Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers

URL Escape Code	%C2%AD
Quoted-printable	=C2=AD

ASCII code 173 in other character sets