U+20B3 Austral Sign
U+20B3 was added to Unicode in version 4.1 (2005). 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. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as European Terminator and is not mirrored. In text U+20B3 behaves as Prefix Numeric regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “austral” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: ARA, currency.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The austral was the currency of Argentina between June 15, 1985, and December 31, 1991. It was divided into 100 centavos. The symbol was an uppercase A with an extra horizontal line, (₳). This symbol appeared on all coins issued in this currency (including centavos), to distinguish them from earlier currencies.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8371 |
UTF-8 | E2 82 B3 |
UTF-16 | 20 B3 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 20 B3 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%82%B3 |
HTML hex reference | ₳ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ₳ |
AGL: Latin-5 | uni20B3 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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4.1 (2005) | |
AUSTRAL SIGN | |
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Currency Symbol | |
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European Terminator | |
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✔ | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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Yes | |
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Other | |
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Other | |
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Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Prefix Numeric | |
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R |