Unicode Character 'POUND SIGN' (U+00A3) |
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| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | POUND SIGN |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Category | Symbol, Currency [Sc] |
| Combine | 0 |
| BIDI | European Number Terminator [ET] |
| Mirror | N |
| Index entries | pound sterling sterling, pound lira, italian irish punt italian lira POUND SIGN punt, irish |
| Comments | pound sterling, Irish punt, lira, etc. not to be confused with the unit of weight glyph may have one or two crossbars, in distinction from U+20A4 |
| See Also | lira sign U+20A4 turkish lira sign U+20BA roman semuncia sign U+10192 |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | £ |
| HTML Entity (hex) | £ |
| HTML Entity (named) | £ |
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +00A3 Alt 0163 Alt 156 |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC2 0xA3 (c2a3) |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11000010:10100011 |
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x00A3 (00a3) |
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 163 |
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x000000A3 (00A3) |
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 163 |
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u00A3" |
| Python source code | u"\u00A3" |
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| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | £ |
| string.toLowerCase() | £ |
| Character.UnicodeBlock | LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT |
| Character.charCount() | 1 |
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_EUROPEAN_NUMBER_TERMINATOR [5] |
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 |
| Character.getType() | 26 |
| Character.isDefined() | Yes |
| Character.isDigit() | No |
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No |
| Character.isISOControl() | No |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | Yes |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | Yes |
| Character.isLetter() | No |
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No |
| Character.isLowerCase() | No |
| Character.isMirrored() | No |
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No |
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No |
| Character.isTitleCase() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No |
| Character.isUpperCase() | No |
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes |
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |