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In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference.
The French franc sign (U+20A3) is typically displayed as a struck-through F, but various versions of Garamond display it as an Fr ligature. The peseta sign (U+20A7), inherited from code page 437 , is usually displayed as a Pts ligature, but Roboto displays it as a Pt ligature and Arial Unicode MS displays it as a partially struck-through P.
The currency sign was once a part of the Mac OS Roman character set, but Apple changed the symbol at that code point to the euro sign in Mac OS 8.5.In pre-Unicode Windows character sets (Windows-1252), the generic currency sign was retained at 0xA4 and the euro sign was introduced as a new code point, at 0x80 in the little used (by Microsoft) control-code space 0x80 to 0x9F.
Also Russian and Belarusian currencies in Latin script R$ real Brazilian real: The $ is sometimes written with a double bar like a double-barred dollar sign: ﷼ IR Rl ⁄ Rls: rial Iranian rial: Rl is singular and Rls is plural U+FDFC ﷼ RIAL SIGN.ر.ي YRl ⁄ YRls Rl ⁄ Rls: rial Yemeni rial: Rl is singular and Rls is plural .ر.س SR SRl ...
A currency symbol or currency sign is a graphic symbol used to denote a currency unit. Usually it is defined by a monetary authority, such as the national central bank for the currency concerned. A symbol may be positioned in various ways, according to national convention: before, between or after the numeric amounts: €2.50 , 2,50€ and 2 50 .
In Erlang, the dollar sign precedes character literals. The dollar sign as a character can be written $$. In COBOL the $ sign is used in the Picture clause to depict a floating currency symbol as the left most character. The default symbol is $; however, if the CURRENCY= or CURRENCY SIGN clause is specified, many other symbols can be used.
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This template produces a dollar sign ($). It is designed to be a workaround for a bug caused by bots running on PHP , as the dollar sign indicates a PHP variable in PHP language. It can also produce symbols for various world currencies and can produce links to the relevant article.