ASCII Character µ
Micro signMicro (Greek letter μ (U+03BC) or the legacy symbol µ (U+00B5)) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of 10−6 (one millionth). Confirmed in 1960, the prefix comes from the Greek μικρός (mikrós), meaning "small". The symbol for the prefix is the Greek letter μ (mu). It is the only SI prefix which uses a character not from the Latin alphabet.
Source: Wikipedia
ASCII Code for µ
These are the code points for micro sign in various character sets| Character Sets | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| Code page 437 | 230 | E6 |
| ISO-8859-1 | 181 | B5 |
| ISO-8859-3 | 181 | B5 |
| ISO-8859-8 | 181 | B5 |
| ISO-8859-9 | 181 | B5 |
| Windows-1250 | 181 | B5 |
| Windows-1251 | 181 | B5 |
| Windows-1252 | 181 | B5 |
| Windows-1253 | 181 | B5 |
| Windows-1254 | 181 | B5 |
| Windows-1255 | 181 | B5 |
| Windows-1256 | 181 | B5 |
| Windows-1257 | 181 | B5 |
| Windows-1258 | 181 | B5 |
Unicode for µ
The character for micro sign is mapped in Unicode as U+00B5| Unicode | U+00B5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 181 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u00b5 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC2 0xB5 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 1100001010110101 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 1100001010110101 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x00B5 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000000B5 | |
HTML Entities for µ
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the micro sign in HTML| HTML Number | µ | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | µ | |
| HTML Entity | µ | |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %C2%B5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =C2=B5 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u00B5" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \00B5 | |
| JavaScript | "\u00B5" | |
| Perl | \x{00B5} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u00B5" | |
| Python 3 | \u00B5 | |
| Ruby | \u{00B5} |