| HTML Entity (dec) | α |
| HTML Entity (hex) | α |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xceb1 / 0xce 0xb1 (2 bytes) |
| UTF-8 (dec) | 206, 177 (2 bytes) |
| UTF-16-BE (hex) | 0x3b1 / 0x03 0xb1 (2 bytes) |
| UTF-16-BE (dec) | 3, 177 (2 bytes) |
| UTF-32-BE (hex) | 0x3b1 / 0x00 0x00 0x03 0xb1 (4 bytes) |
| UTF-32-BE (dec) | 0, 0, 3, 177 (4 bytes) |
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u03b1" |
| Python source code | "\u03b1" |