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