U+00A4 Currency Sign
U+00A4 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the 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+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 |
|---|---|
| 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: CP037 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | 94 |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | CF |
| Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes) | CF |
| Encoding: CP855 (hex bytes) | CF |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | CF |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | CF |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | CF |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | 98 |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: CP866 (hex bytes) | FD |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A2 B4 |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP1125 (hex bytes) | FD |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8F A2 F0 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A9 A4 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A9 A4 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A2 B4 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A1 E8 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A1 E8 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A1 E8 |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 21 68 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 70 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 70 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 29 24 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 29 24 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 22 70 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 22 34 0F |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_3 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | D9 B4 |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | A4 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 85 43 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 85 43 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | 4A |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | 5A |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | 5A |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | 5A |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| 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
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| CURRENCY SIGN | |
| — | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Currency Symbol | |
| Common | |
| European Terminator | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Currency Sign | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Currency Sign | |
| Currency Sign | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Currency Sign | |
| Currency Sign | |
| Currency Sign | |
| Currency Sign | |
| Currency Sign | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Currency Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Currency Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Currency Sign | |
| Yes | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Currency Sign | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Prefix Numeric | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Currency Sign | |
| R |