CurrencyU+00A4 · Latin-1 Supplement

Currency Sign

U+00A4 · decimal 164 · Latin-1 Supplement

Every way to write it

7 forms

HTML entity

A named entity — readable, and safe in any HTML document without declaring a charset.

HTML numeric

The numeric form works everywhere a named one does, and exists for every character.

CSS content

\00A4

For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.

JavaScript

\u00A4

Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.

Python

\u00A4

The escape for a Python string literal.

URL

%C2%A4

Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.

UTF-8 bytes

C2 A4

2 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.

system picker

macOS

Control + Command + Space, then search currency sign

Windows

Character Map or Alt + 164

Code pointU+00A4

EntityNamed

UTF-82 bytes

ASCIINo