Talk:Currency sign

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Contents 1 Position of currency sign 2 Symbol for cent 3 Symbol for pound and lira 4 Generic currency sign 5 Symbols appear as squares 6 Rupee sign 7 Currency Symbols

[edit] Position of currency sign

From article: "When writing currency amounts the location of the sign varies by currency." I always thought this varied by language. Examples:

Swedish:
Det kostar 50,00 USD.
(Det kostar 50,00 $.)
Det kostar 50,00 kr.
Det kostar 50,00 €.
English:
This costs $50.00.
This costs SEK 50.00.
This costs €50.00.

For the same reason I do not believe there is a "defined placement of the euro sign by the european comission". I'll see if I can find such a thing. -Storpilot 19:07, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

As a data point, in Canadian French it is common to see the dollar sign following the amount, and the decimal written as a comma, to boot: 1,85$. I first noticed this in the late '80s and took it then as a recent innovation; it is politically important in Quebec that French be used prominently and obviously, so universal multilingual forms are disfavoured relative to unique specific ones. But I may be wrong, not having spent much time in Quebec, and it that may be cyncism on my part. It would be equally valid to say that the "$1.85" is uniquely English and even long usage in Quebec was nothing more than Anglo imperialist hegemony. Sharkford 18:49, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)

Doess anybody have any source, reference or information for "The standardized European default placement, used in absence of a national standard, is that (€) is placed before the amount." I believe this to be incorrect. As far as I am aware, the position of the currency sysmbol is language-dependent and neither the EU nor the ECB issed a default, language-independent standard. To decide on the positioning before the figure would be odd, since it has so many disadvantages compared to other notations. -- 82.21.200.32 10:42, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Symbol for cent

The symbol for a Euro-cent is a normal small "c". I have never seen the US symbol of a "c" with a line through it used for the sub-division of a Euro.

[edit] Symbol for pound and lira

The symbol for a British pound is a £ with either one or two bars in it, the same as you quote for the former Italian Lira. Keyboards and computer fonts usually have one bar, but either one or two are valid, or so I was taught at school in England. The derivation is a hand-written "L" from the latin "Libra" for pound, the same derivation as the Italian lira. This is also the derivation for abbreviation for the British pound weight, 1 lb. = 454 g.

[edit] Generic currency sign

what is the generic currency sign ¤ used for?

Been reading Politiken eh? First thing I did was also to check here :) (For the rest of you: A Danish newspaper is trying to find out what the ¤ sign means and has resorted to asking the readers since none of the experts they asked knew) Preisler 11:54, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

I have :)

[edit] Symbols appear as squares

What updates are required for the symbols in question to be seen, as opposed to a simple square which internet explorer shows when the correct symbol is not installed?

[edit] Rupee sign

I don't know if it's just me or if it happens to other people (I'm using Win XP and Firefox), but the symbol for the Rupee sometimes shows up as the really squished-looking Rs symbol (which seems to always show up in the Rupee article), and sometimes an Rp symbol. OzLawyer 22:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Currency Symbols

I was recently pondering why so many world currency symbols are letters with a line (or two) through them. It is surely no coincidence that the dollar (S), pound (L), franc (F), yen (Y), euro (E), &c. all share this trait. Does anyone happen to know the history as to why this may be? If so, it may be worth a few words on the main article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 147.114.226.173 (talk) 10:30, 13 December 2006 (UTC).