ASCII Character: Currency sign

About the Currency sign Character

ASCII code 164 (0xA4) represents the Currency sign character in the extended ASCII table (128–255). It is a widely recognized symbol used in international commerce, intellectual property, or mathematical notation. The extended ASCII range builds upon the original 128-character ASCII set, adding accented letters, currency symbols, typographic marks, and mathematical symbols. These characters are defined by the Windows-1252 (CP-1252) encoding, which is a superset of ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1). In modern web development, UTF-8 encoding is preferred, but understanding extended ASCII remains important for legacy system compatibility and character encoding troubleshooting.

Encoding Details

Source Code Examples

// Character literal
let char = '¤';
// Using char code
let char2 = String.fromCharCode(164);
// Unicode escape
let char3 = '\u00A4';

# Character literal
char = '¤'
# Using chr()
char = chr(164)
# Using ord() to get code
code = ord('¤')  # Returns 164

<!-- Direct character -->
¤
<!-- HTML entity (numeric) -->
&#164;
<!-- Hex entity -->
&#xA4;

// Character literal
char c = '¤';
// Using cast
char c2 = (char)164;
// To get code from char
int code = (int)'¤';  // Returns 164

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