U+00A4 Currency Sign
U+00A4 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Currency Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written as end of a European number, e.g., a currency symbol, from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+00A4 prohibits a line break after it, if it is followed by a number.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The currency sign ¤ is a character used to denote an unspecified currency. It can be described as a circle the size of a lowercase character with four short radiating arms at 45° (NE), 135° (SE), 225° (SW) and 315° (NW). It is raised slightly above the baseline. The character is sometimes called scarab.: 5
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 164 |
UTF-8 | C2 A4 |
UTF-16 | 00 A4 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 00 A4 |
URL-Quoted | %C2%A4 |
HTML hex reference | ¤ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ¤ |
HTML named entity | ¤ |
HTML named entity | ¤ |
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A2 B4 |
Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) | FD |
Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: ISO-8859-2 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: ISO-8859-3 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: ISO-8859-4 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | A4 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | A4 |
LATEX | \textcurrency |
AGL: Latin-1 | currency |
AGL: Latin-2 | currency |
AGL: Latin-3 | currency |
AGL: Latin-4 | currency |
AGL: Latin-5 | currency |
Adobe Glyph List | currency |
digraph | Cu |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
CURRENCY SIGN | |
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Currency Symbol | |
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ambiguous | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Prefix Numeric | |
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not a number | |
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