Enclosed C or circled Latin C ( or ) is a typographical symbol

Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...

. As one of many enclosed alphanumeric

Enclosed alphanumeric

An enclosed alphanumeric or circled alphanumeric is a typographical symbol of an alphanumeric within a circle. The meaning of "enclosed" may also be extended to "bracketed", like in ⒣, and other not-closed enclosures....

s, the symbol is a "C

C

Ĉ or ĉ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing the sound .Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do the Latin-based Slavic alphabets...

" within a circle

Circle

A circle is a simple shape of Euclidean geometry consisting of those points in a plane that are a given distance from a given point, the centre. The distance between any of the points and the centre is called the radius....

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Enclosed C should not be confused with the copyright symbol

Copyright symbol

The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, designated by © , is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound recordings . The use of the symbol is described in United States copyright law, and, internationally, by the Universal Copyright Convention...

 (©), which is also a capital letter "C" within a circle.

Encodings

The capitalized symbol can be generated with the unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 encoding "U+24B8" and the UTF-8

UTF-8

UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...

 (hex.) encoding "e2 92 b8".

The lower case symbol can be generated with the unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 encoding "U+24D2" and the UTF-8

UTF-8

UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...

 (hex.) encoding "e2 93 92". By contrast, the copyright symbol uses unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

encoding "U+00A9".