0xB7

0xB7 is a hexadecimal byte value equal to 183 in decimal. In Unicode, the corresponding code point is U+00B7, named MIDDLE DOT, and the character is displayed as a dot-like symbol (·). This symbol functions as a punctuation mark in various writing systems and as a typographic interpunct to separate items in a list or to delineate elements in transliterations.

In common text encodings, 0xB7 maps to the middle dot in ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) and Windows-1252. When text is encoded in UTF-8, the single code point U+00B7 is represented by two bytes: 0xC2 0xB7. In HTML, the middle dot can be inserted with the character entity · or the numeric reference ·.

Uses and applications vary by language and domain. The middle dot is widely used as a punctuation mark to separate items or terms, particularly in East Asian typography and in transliteration contexts. In mathematics and computer science, a dot-like symbol serves as a multiplication operator or as a dot product indicator, depending on notation conventions. It is important to distinguish this character from the ASCII period (0x2E) and from other similar characters such as the Katakana middle dot, which reside in different Unicode blocks.

Context matters for interpretation: 0xB7 is a byte value that, depending on the encoding, may render as the middle dot, while its Unicode canonical representation is U+00B7. This duality is common in data interchange, where encoding determines the exact character observed.