For at least one DOS encoding it’s an accented “a” character. That’s why you need to look at the result of decoding it from the 8-bit encoding. BTW, sometimes people say “UTF-8”, and they mean “mostly ASCII, I guess”.

How to read XA0 text in UTF-8?

0. If the input has a stray ‘xa0’, then it’s not in UTF-8, full stop. Yes, you have to either recode it to UTF-8 (see: iconv, recode commands, or a lot of text editors and IDEs can do it), or read it using an 8-bit encoding (as all the other answers suggest).

What is the best encoding format for Unicode in UltraEdit?

Most SQL databases and websites you see are encoded in UTF-8, and in fact, in 2008 Google said that UTF-8 had become the most common encoding for HTML files. So if you ask us, we recommend the UTF-8 encoding format when working with Unicode in UltraEdit and UEStudio as well!

Is there a way to read 0xA0 character in a text file?

Yes, you have to either recode it to UTF-8 (see: iconv, recode commands, or a lot of text editors and IDEs can do it), or read it using an 8-bit encoding (as all the other answers suggest). What you should ask yourself is – what is this character after all ( 0xa0 or 160)? Well, in many 8-bit encodings it’s a non-breaking space (like in HTML).

What is the Unicode code point for each character?

The Unicode code point for each character is listed and the hex values for each of the bytes in the UTF-8 encoding for the same characters. These UTF-8 bytes are also displayed as if they were Windows-1252 characters. You can use this chart to debug problems where these sequences of Latin characters occur, where only one character was expected.