0xC5

0xC5 is a hexadecimal byte value equal to 197 in decimal. In computing, such a value often represents a single byte within various character encodings. In Unicode and its common single-byte encodings ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) and Windows-1252, the byte 0xC5 encodes the character Å, the Latin capital letter A with a ring above. The Unicode code point for this character is U+00C5. In UTF-8, that character is encoded as the two-byte sequence 0xC3 0x85.

The character Å denotes a distinct letter used in several Nordic languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) and appears in loanwords in others, where it represents a vowel sound distinct from A.

In programming and data processing, 0xC5 is also used as a numeric literal representing 197, for example in C, C++, Java, and Python when manipulating raw bytes or binary protocols. When interpreting data, the meaning of the byte 0xC5 depends on the active character encoding; misinterpretation can cause mojibake when encoding is misaligned.

The term 0xC5 might appear in hex dumps of files, network traffic, or memory contents, often alongside other bytes forming encoded text or binary data. References to 0xC5 are primarily of technical relevance, relating to character encoding, string handling, and data interchange, rather than to a standalone standard or entity.