Currency (typography)
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The currency sign (¤) is the character used when the symbol for a particular currency is unavailable. It is particularly common in place of the symbols for the Colón (₡) and Rupee (₨), these being absent from most character sets and/or fonts.
It is represented in Unicode as CURRENCY SIGN (U+00A4). In HTML, the character entity reference ¤ or numeric character reference ¤ may be used.
The currency sign used to be a part of the Mac OS Roman character set, but the symbol at that code point was changed to the euro (€) in Mac OS 8.5.
The symbol is available on some keybords layouts, for example Danish and Swedish keyboard.
Other usages
- Alternative separator in CSV files
- Delete sign when typing on paper for later OCR processing
- ¤ : delete previous character
- ¤¤ : delete previous word (i.e. back to previous space character)
- ¤¤¤ : delete entire line
Categories
Punctuation | Currency signs