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Glyph for U+20AC
Source: Noto Sans

U+20AC Euro Sign

U+20AC was added in Unicode version 2.1 in 1998. It belongs to the block U+20A0 to U+20CF Currency Symbols in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

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+20AC prohibits a line break after it, if it is followed by a number. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The CLDR project calls this character “euro” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: currency, EUR.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The euro sign (€) is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and adopted, although not required to, by Kosovo and Montenegro. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. It consists of a stylized letter E (or epsilon), crossed by two lines instead of one. Depending on convention in each nation, the symbol can either precede the value (for instance, €10), or follow the value (for instance, 10 €), often with an intervening space.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 8364
UTF-8 E2 82 AC
UTF-16 20 AC
UTF-32 00 00 20 AC
URL-Quoted %E2%82%AC
HTML hex reference €
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake €
HTML named entity €
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A2 E6
Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) A4
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) DB
Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) 80
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) 88
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) 80
Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) 80
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) 80
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) 80
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) 80
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) 80
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) 80
Encoding: WINDOWS-874 (hex bytes) 80
Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) FF
LATEX \mbox{\texteuro}
AGL: Latin-1 Euro
AGL: Latin-2 Euro
AGL: Latin-3 Euro
AGL: Latin-4 Euro
AGL: Latin-5 Euro
Adobe Glyph List Euro
Adobe Glyph List euro

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 2.1 (1998)
Unicode Name (na) EURO SIGN
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Currency Symbols
General Category (gc) Currency Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) European Terminator
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Prefix Numeric
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+20AC Euro Sign
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R