£
Currency symbols | |
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Symbols of valid currencies and tokens | ฿ - ₵ - ¢ - ₡ - ₫ - € - ƒ - ₲ - ₭ - ₾ - £ - ₤ - ₺ - ₼ - ₥ - ₦ - ₱ ₽ - ₹ - ₨ - ৲ - ৳ - $ - ₮ - ₩ - ¥ - ₴ - ₪ - 〒 |
Symbols of no longer valid currencies and tokens | ₳ - ₢ - ₡ - ₰ - ₯ - ₠ - ₣ - ℳ - ₧ - ℛℳ |
The £ character (also ₤ possible) is a symbol for currencies of different countries, whose currency name is derived from the Latin word for “pound”, libra (pl. “Librae”). The character goes back to the first letter L of the word "libra", with a single or double slash . The best-known currencies that use the currency symbol are the British pound (£) and, until 2001, the Italian lira (primarily as ₤). The symbol can also be found in abbreviations for such currencies, e.g. B. Give £ for Gibraltar pounds or Ir £ for Irish pounds , especially in contexts where a £ alone would not be unique.
Representation in computer systems
Unicode encoding
In the international character encoding standard Unicode are the signs £ and ₤ listed as follows:
character | Character name | Description (informally) |
Code Point ( hexadecimal ) |
Decimal value of the character number (code point) (unofficially) |
UTF-8 ( Transformation Format ) ( hexadecimal ) |
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£ | POUND SIGN | Pound sign | U + 00A3 | 163 | c2 a3 |
₤ | LIRA SIGN | Lira symbol | U + 20A4 | 8356 | e2 82 a4 |
The character £ is included in the Unicode 8.0 Character Code Chart C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement ( Unicode block Latin-1, supplement ), the character ₤ in the Unicode 8.0 Character Code Chart Currency Symbols ( Unicode block currency symbols ).
keyboard
In contrast to the British or Swiss keyboard layout , the symbol on the for Germany is not directly accessible. Under Windows , the character can be Altentered using the key combination + 156. Mac OS X users enter the character with Alt+ Shift+ 4, on some Linux systems it is obtained with Alt Gr+ Shift+ 3. Under AmigaOS it is Alt+ L. The £ character on the Swiss keyboard is accessed Shiftusing + $.
HTML
Means the code point in the Unicode let the characters £ and ₤ in the text-based markup language Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) (on which many websites are based), if necessary as a character entities enter:
entity |
hexadecimal -numerical character entity |
decimal -numerical character entity |
named character entity |
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character | |||
£ | & # x00A3; | & # 163; | & pound; |
₤ | & # x20A4; | & # 8356; | - |
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ The Unicode Standard, Version 8.0. Archived Code Charts . In: unicode.org . Unicode, Inc. , 2015, accessed and received on May 3, 2016 (English; PDF file 97.8 MiB).
- ^ C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement . Extract from: The Unicode Standard, Version 8.0. Archived Code Charts . In: unicode.org . Unicode, Inc. , 2015, accessed and received on May 9, 2016 (English; PDF files, excerpt 466 KiB, overall document 97.8 MiB).
- ^ Currency Symbols . Extract from: The Unicode Standard, Version 8.0. Archived Code Charts . In: unicode.org . Unicode, Inc. , 2015, accessed and received on May 10, 2016 (English; PDF files, excerpt 246 KiB, overall document 97.8 MiB).