£

Currency symbols
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Symbols of no longer valid currencies and tokens	₳ - ₢ - ₡ - ₰ - ₯ - ₠ - ₣ - ℳ - ₧ - ℛℳ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:

Unicode
character	Character name	Description (informally)	Code Point ( hexadecimal )	Decimal value of the character number (code point) (unofficially)	UTF-8 ( Transformation Format ) ( hexadecimal )
£	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:

HTML entities
entity	hexadecimal -numerical character entity	decimal -numerical character entity	named character entity
character	hexadecimal -numerical character entity	decimal -numerical character entity	named character entity
£	& # x00A3;	& # 163;	& pound;
₤	& # x20A4;	& # 8356;	-

Web links

Wiktionary: £ - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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).

[1] 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).

[2] 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).

[3] 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).