Is ascii character 255 an invisible character or space?

Question

I am writing some code to print overlapping ASCII character objects and I want some to be invisible instead of the typical " " white space character. Would this solve it?

cout << char(255);

Answer 1

In the most common extended 8-bit ASCII tables 255 is the 'ÿ' symbol (Latin small letter y with diaeresis). The space character is decimal value 32. So what you are searching for is probably:

cout << char(32);