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ASCII 163

Pound Sign (£)

Latin-1 Supplement

Latin-1 character.

All encodings at a glance

Decimal163
Hexadecimal0xA3
Octal0243
Binary10100011
HTML numeric entity£
HTML named entity£
URL encoding%A3
UTF-8 bytes0xC2 0xA3

Code snippets

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(163); // "£"
163.toString(16); // "a3"

Python

chr(163)           # control char £
ord(chr(163))      # 163
hex(163)           # '0xa3'

HTML

&pound;   <!-- named entity -->
&#163;   <!-- 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.

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