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A currency symbol or currency sign is a graphic symbol used to denote a currency unit. Usually it is defined by a monetary authority, such as the national central bank for the currency concerned. A symbol may be positioned in various ways, according to national convention: before, between or after the numeric amounts: €2.50, 2,50€ and 250.
The currency sign was once a part of the Mac OS Roman character set, but Apple changed the symbol at that code point to the euro sign in Mac OS 8.5.In pre-Unicode Windows character sets (Windows-1252), the generic currency sign was retained at 0xA4 and the euro sign was introduced as a new code point, at 0x80 in the little used (by Microsoft) control-code space 0x80 to 0x9F.
Currency Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing unique monetary signs. Many currency signs can be found in other Unicode blocks, especially when the currency symbol is unique to a country that uses a script not generally used outside that country. The display of Unicode currency symbols among various typefaces is ...
Canadian dollar. Cent (currency) Cifrão. Colón (currency) Costa Rican colón. Cruzeiro sign. Currency sign (generic) Currency Symbols (Unicode block) Czech koruna.
Dollar sign. The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital S crossed with one or two vertical strokes ($ or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso". The explicitly double-barred sign is called ...
South Korean won (원 / 圓) U+20A9 ₩ WON SIGN. & U+FFE6 ￦ FULLWIDTH WON SIGN. ¥. yuan. Renminbi yuan (元 / 圆) Used with one and two crossbars, depending on font. 元 is also used in reference to the Macanese pataca and the Hong Kong and Taiwanese dollars. U+00A5 ¥ YEN SIGN & U+FFE5 ￥ FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN.
A currency[a] is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. [1][2] A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money in common use within a specific environment over time, especially for people in a nation state. [3] Under this definition, the British ...
The euro sign (€) is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and adopted, although not required to, by Kosovo and Montenegro. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. It consists of a stylized letter E (or epsilon), crossed by two lines instead of one.