ASCII 163
Pound Sign (£)
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin-1 character.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 163 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xA3 |
| Octal | 0243 |
| Binary | 10100011 |
| HTML numeric entity | £ |
| HTML named entity | £ |
| URL encoding | %A3 |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC2 0xA3 |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(163); // "£"
163.toString(16); // "a3"Python
chr(163) # control char £
ord(chr(163)) # 163
hex(163) # '0xa3'HTML
£ <!-- named entity -->
£ <!-- numeric entity -->Unicode & UTF-8 note
In Unicode this is U+00A3. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0xA3. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xA3, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.