decodeunicode.org . decode . EURO-CURRENCY SIGN

EDIT Incorrect The english name of this Unicode character is wrong. It has nothing to do with the official Euro-sign but was instead created much earlier, in the seventies or eighties, when the concept of a common European currency, called the ECU, was first discussed.

The Euro currency sign of today can be found at € U+20AC EURO SIGN.

Usage
This character saw hardly any use at all and was never official since the first common European currency never made it past its planning stage.

Character shape
The idea of a common currency and the name Ecu were strongly supported by the French, so it could be an abbreviation for Communauté Européenne (European Union).

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U+20AC
EURO SIGN


01	CODE POINT VALUE: : : : :	20A0
02	NAME (UNICODE NAME) : : :	EURO-CURRENCY SIGN
03	GENERAL CATEGORY: : : : :	Symbol, Currency
04	COMBINING CLASS : : : : :	Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and Tibetan subjoined
05	BIDIRECTIONAL CATEGORY: :	European Number Terminator
06	DECOMPOSITION MAPPING : :	-
07	DECIMAL DIGIT VALUE : : :	-
08	DIGIT VALUE : : : : : : :	-
09	NUMERIC VALUE : : : : : :	-
10	MIRRORED: : : : : : : : :	No
11	UNICODE 1.0 NAME: : : : :	EURO-CURRENCY SIGN
12	ISO 10646 COMMENT FIELD :	-


13	UPPERCASE MAPPING : : : :	-
14	LOWERCASE MAPPING : : : :	-
15	TITLECASE MAPPING : : : :	-
16	DECIMAL VALUE : : : : : :	8352
17	UTF-8 HEX VALUE : : : : :	0xE282A0
18	UTF-16 HEX VALUE: : : : :	0x20A0
19	UTF-32 HEX VALUE: : : : :	0x000020A0
20	XHTML : : : : : : : : : :	&#8352
21	BLOCK : : : : : : : : : :	Currency Symbols
22	PLANE : : : : : : : : : :	Supplementary Ideographic Plane (SIP)
23	STROKE NUMBER : : : : : :	-
24	RADICAL : : : : : : : : :	-