Currency Symbols (Unicode block)
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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.
Currency Symbols | |
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Range | U+20A0..U+20CF (48 code points) |
Plane | BMP |
Scripts | Common |
Symbol sets | Currency signs |
Assigned | 33 code points |
Unused | 15 reserved code points |
Unicode version history | |
1.0.0 (1991) | 11 (+11) |
2.0 (1996) | 12 (+1) |
2.1 (1998) | 13 (+1) |
3.0 (1999) | 16 (+3) |
3.2 (2002) | 18 (+2) |
4.1 (2005) | 22 (+4) |
5.2 (2009) | 25 (+3) |
6.0 (2010) | 26 (+1) |
6.2 (2012) | 27 (+1) |
7.0 (2014) | 30 (+3) |
8.0 (2015) | 31 (+1) |
10.0 (2017) | 32 (+1) |
14.0 (2021) | 33 (+1) |
Unicode documentation | |
Code chart ∣ Web page | |
Note: [1][2] |
The display of Unicode currency symbols among various typefaces is inconsistent, more so than other characters in the repertoire. The French franc sign (U+20A3) is typically displayed as a struck-through F, but various versions of Garamond display it as an Fr ligature. The peseta sign (U+20A7), inherited from code page 437, is usually displayed as a Pts ligature, but Roboto displays it as a Pt ligature and Arial Unicode MS displays it as a partially struck-through P. The rupee sign (U+20A8) is usually displayed as an Rs digraph, but Microsoft Sans Serif uses the quantity-neutral "Rp" digraph instead.