MIME Test - Character Encoding Test

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The British currency symbol, £, (Unicode codepoint U+00A3) is encoded as a different (string of) byte(s), depending the character encoding used.

• In ISO-8859-1, the default encoding for text/html documents, it is represented by a single byte, (hex: 0xA3).
• In UTF-8, the default encoding for application/xhtml+xml documents, it is represented by two bytes, (hex: 0xC2A3).
• In other encodings (like US-ASCII), there may be no character for £ and it must be "escaped" as a numeric entity, such as £ or £.

The following is the British currency symbol, unescaped.

£23.99