Currency Symbols

Currency signs for the world's major and minor units, from dollar, euro, pound and yen through rupee, ruble, won, naira and the bitcoin sign.

This group holds 9 characters. They are scattered from U+0025 to U+20AC, 8,328 codepoints apart, because they were added to Unicode at different times and for different reasons. They are drawn from Latin-1 Supplement (4), Basic Latin (3), Currency Symbols (1), Spacing Modifier Letters (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, 4 of the 9, come from Latin-1 Supplement: the accented letters and common signs Western European languages needed. A block is an address rather than a category, and this group is drawn from 4 of them. The rest come from Basic Latin, Currency Symbols and Spacing Modifier Letters.

7 of the 9 have a Windows Alt code that works as printed. The rest are copy and paste, which works the same everywhere.

Of the 9, 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.

1 have a compatibility decomposition, which means NFKC normalisation rewrites it into something plainer and a search box may not return what was pasted into it.

Every character below copies with one click. 7 of them have a guide page as well, with the Windows, Mac and HTML route written out.

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