U00A3
U+00A3 is the Unicode code point for the Pound Sign, the currency symbol used to denote the pound sterling. Its official Unicode name is POUND SIGN. It resides in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is categorized as a currency symbol (Sc). In UTF-8 it is encoded as the two-byte sequence 0xC2 0xA3, and in HTML it can be rendered with £ or £.
Origin and form: The symbol is traditionally derived from the letter L for libra, the Latin word
Usage: The Pound Sign denotes amounts in pounds and is commonly written before the numeral, as in
Encoding and compatibility: The Pound Sign is widely supported across modern text encodings and fonts, but
See also: Pound sterling, Unicode currency symbols, HTML entities.