Currency (typography)

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v • d • e Punctuation
apostrophe ( ', ’ ) brackets ( ), [ ], { }, < > colon ( : ) comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒, –, —, ― ) ellipsis ( …, ... ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) guillemets ( « » ) hyphen ( -, ‐ ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’, “ ” ) semicolon ( ; ) slash/stroke ( / ) solidus ( ∕ )
Interword separation
spaces ( ) ( ) ( ) interpunct ( · )
General typography
ampersand ( & ) asterisk ( * ) at ( @ ) backslash ( \ ) bullet ( • ) caret ( ^ ) currency ( ¤ ) ¢, $, €, £, ¥, ₩, ₪ dagger ( † ) ( ‡ ) degree ( ° ) emoticons :-) inverted exclamation point ( ¡ ) inverted question mark ( ¿ ) number sign ( # ) percent and related signs ( %, ‰, ‱ ) pilcrow ( ¶ ) prime ( ′ ) section sign ( § ) tilde/swung dash ( ~ ) umlaut/diaeresis ( ¨ ) underscore/understrike ( _ ) vertical/pipe/broken bar ( |, ¦ )
Uncommon typography
asterism ( ⁂ ) lozenge ( ◊ ) interrobang ( ‽ ) irony mark ( ؟ ) reference mark ( ※ ) sarcasm mark

The currency sign (¤) is the character used when the symbol for a particular currency is unavailable. It is particularly common in place of the symbols for the Colón (₡) and Rupee (₨), these being absent from most character sets and/or fonts.

It is represented in Unicode as CURRENCY SIGN (U+00A4). In HTML, the character entity reference ¤ or numeric character reference ¤ may be used.

The currency sign used to be a part of the Mac OS Roman character set, but the symbol at that code point was changed to the euro (€) in Mac OS 8.5.

The symbol is available on some keyboard layouts, for example Danish and Swedish keyboards. On US International keyboard layouts, it is obtained by AltGr + 4.

[edit] Other usages

• Alternative separator in CSV files
• Delete sign when typing on paper for later OCR processing
  • ¤ : delete previous character
  • ¤¤ : delete previous word (i.e. back to previous space character)
  • ¤¤¤ : delete entire line
• In Microsoft Word, ¤ is used to indicate the end of a table cell in some viewing modes