I do not know if it has ever happened to you that when you need to\u00a0buy currency<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0travel<\/strong>\u00a0to a\u00a0foreign country,<\/strong>\u00a0you have doubted the\u00a0symbol<\/strong>\u00a0with which the currency is represented.\u00a0It happened to me personally once when I went to check what price difference existed between the\u00a0euro<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0yen, the\u00a0currency<\/strong> symbol<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0Japan<\/strong>.\u00a0He had been\u00a0looking for information<\/strong>\u00a0about the Japanese country where he had to travel for work.\u00a0When I went to check the prices of public transport in Tokyo on some websites in English, the\u00a0quantities<\/strong>\u00a0were\u00a0expressed<\/strong>\u00a0with the”\u00a0\u00a5<\/strong>\u00a0” currency<\/strong>\u00a0symbols<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So far so good. But when I went to check the purchase price of the yen, I did not find that symbol in the list<\/strong> of currencies<\/strong>. And of course, inexperienced that at that time it was one, I did not know how to differentiate between the symbol of the foreign currency used and the ISO code<\/strong> that is assigned internationally in the currency market<\/strong>. This is how I discovered that the Japanese yen<\/strong> is called internationally<\/strong> with the code “JPY”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foreign currency buying and selling chart. The ISO code for the Japanese yen is “JPY”, “JP” for the initials of Japan<\/em> and “Y” for the initial of yen<\/em> . The symbol used for the yen, however, is the “\u00a5” or “\u5186” in Japanese spelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The codes used<\/strong> to identify currencies are defined by the International Standards Organization<\/strong> (ISO) and, in this case, currencies, under the ISO 4217<\/strong> standard . Each code consists of an alphabetic code<\/strong> of three letters<\/strong> and in most cases the first two letters of the alphabetic code representing the country concerned (the two – letter abbreviation for the name of the country defined by ISO 3166- standard 1) and the third letter corresponds to the first letter of the currency name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currencies are also represented by a numeric code<\/strong> of three digits<\/strong> and is common in countries that do not use the Latin alphabet. In general, currency code numbers<\/strong> are similar to ISO 3166-1 country code numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, on the other hand, we can find the symbols assigned<\/strong> to each currency that we find marked, for example, in the prices. Thus, while the symbol<\/strong> with which we represent the euro<\/strong> is \u201c \u20ac<\/strong> \u201d, the code<\/strong> that we will find expressed for the European currency<\/strong> will be \u201c EUR<\/strong> \u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Table with some coins and their correspondence in ISO 4217 code and symbol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This standardization<\/strong> of the codes<\/strong> avoids the confusion caused by some currency names such as dollar, franc, peso or pound,<\/strong> which are used in many countries, but have very different exchange rates<\/strong> . Thus, for example, we can find the United States dollar<\/strong> (USD) and the Australian dollar<\/strong> (AUD) represented with the same symbol “$”, although we can also find the Australian currency with the symbol “A $”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Mac, assuming you are using the US keyboard layout, you can enter the dollar sign ($) with the keyboard shortcut “Shift + 4”. What happens if you need to enter the European dollar symbol (\u20ac)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The answer is simple. The keyboard shortcut for the euro sign is “Option + Shift + 2<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next question is, what about the British pound (\u00a3), the Chinese yen (\u00a5) and many other currency signs?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For other currency signs, we can take the corresponding symbol from the character viewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.<\/strong> Go to “System Preferences -> Keyboard”. On the “Keyboard” tab, check the “Show keyboards and character viewers in the menu bar” field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.<\/strong> Then click on the “Input sources” button and select “Show input menu in menu bar<\/strong>“. You should now see a flag in the menu bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.<\/strong> Click on the flag to open the menu and select “Show Character Viewer”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. In the left pane of the character viewer, select “Currency symbol”. You will now see the different currency symbols. Just double click on it to add it to the text field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Few symbols are present in our day to day as the symbols of money. That is why I wanted to ask myself what is the origin of these designs, at least, of the three most famous: the dollar, the pound and the euro.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWorld’s main ISO currency symbols codes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
How to write the euro symbol (\u20ac) and other currency symbols on Mac<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The curious origin of the currency symbols of money<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n
The dollar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n