Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout
The character ô has the Unicode code point U+00F4. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 2 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of
0x0080to0x07ff.
Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 11 bits within the final 16 bits and that it will have the format:110xxxxx 10xxxxxx
Where thexare the payload bits.UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range Codepoint Range Bytes Bit pattern Payload length U+0000 - U+007F 1 0xxxxxxx 7 bits U+0080 - U+07FF 2 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx 11 bits U+0800 - U+FFFF 3 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 16 bits U+10000 - U+10FFFF 4 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 21 bits Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:
Convert the hexadecimal code point U+00F4 to binary:
11110100. Those are the payload bits.Step 3: Fill in the bits to match the bit pattern:
Obtain the final bytes by arranging the paylod bits to match the bit layout:
11000011 10110100
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX·U+00F4
ô
Character Information
Code Point
U+00F4
HEX
00F4
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Lowercase Letter
Character Representations
Click elements to copy| Encoding | Hex | Binary |
|---|---|---|
| UTF8 | C3 B4 | 11000011 10110100 |
| UTF16 (big Endian) | 00 F4 | 00000000 11110100 |
| UTF16 (little Endian) | F4 00 | 11110100 00000000 |
| UTF32 (big Endian) | 00 00 00 F4 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 11110100 |
| UTF32 (little Endian) | F4 00 00 00 | 11110100 00000000 00000000 00000000 |
HTML Entity
ô
URI Encoded
%C3%B4
Description
The character U+00F4, also known as LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX (ô), plays a significant role in digital text due to its unique diacritical mark. This glyph is commonly utilized to represent the vowel sound "œ" or "ə" in various languages and contexts, such as French, Portuguese, and Italian. In French, it represents the vowel sound "œ" or "ə," while in other Romance languages, it may also indicate a specific vowel sound or function as a ligature with adjacent letters. U+00F4 is an essential element in typography due to its circumflex (^) diacritical mark, which influences pronunciation and meaning in certain words. It is derived from the Latin script and belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement Unicode block, which contains characters ranging from 128 to 255 that serve various text formatting and typography purposes. This character holds importance in ensuring proper communication across different linguistic and cultural contexts in digital text.
How to type the ô symbol on Windows
Hold Alt and type 0244 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.