Currency Alt Codes

Currency signs with Alt codes: euro, pound, yen, cent, and the generic currency sign, plus the codepoints for the rest.

This group holds 16 characters. They are scattered from U+0024 to U+20BF, 8,348 codepoints apart, because they were added to Unicode at different times and for different reasons. They are drawn from Currency Symbols (10), Latin-1 Supplement (4), Basic Latin (1) in the Unicode Standard, which is what decides how each one is encoded and how software sorts and compares it.

Most of the traffic to this group is for £, € and ¤. The phrase people type for the first of those is pound sterling symbol, which is worth knowing if you are looking for it under another name.

Most of them, 10 of the 16, come from Currency Symbols: currency signs added after Latin-1, including the euro. A block is an address rather than a category, and this group is drawn from 3 of them. The rest come from Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement.

6 of the 16 have a Windows Alt code that works as printed. The rest are copy and paste, which works the same everywhere.

Of the 16, 3 have a Mac shortcut of their own. Everything else in this drawer is reached by copying it or by its codepoint, which works in every application on every system.

Every character below copies with one click. Each one also has a guide page with its Windows, Mac and HTML route written out.

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