Currency symbols inside lstlisting

Question

I am trying to add a GBP \pounds symbol inside lstlisting

\begin{lstlisting}
Lorem ipsum 3£ \pounds
\end{lstlisting}

However this results in the following line:

Lorem ipsum 3Â \pounds

How do I draw correct GBP symbol inside lstlisting?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

This should work even if it is a bit hackish:

\begin{lstlisting}[mathescape=true]
Lorem ipsum 3$\mbox{\pounds}$ \pounds
\end{lstlisting}

Move the question to tex.stackexchange.com and you'll have better answers wrt character encodings.

Answer 2

This even works inside verbatim and using xelatex compiler:

\usepackage{newunicodechar}
\newunicodechar{£}{\textsterling}

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\begin{lstlisting}
Lorem ipsum 3£
\end{lstlisting}

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\begin{verbatim}
Lorem ipsum 3£
\end{verbatim}