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The result of the debate was move. — Nightst a llion (?) 11:53, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
A Google search returns:
-- Philip Baird Shearer 16:54, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Google the UK parliament returns:
Apart from Common usage (~ 3 to 1 in a Google search) and official usage, not not only by ECB and the European Commission ( The €uro: Our Currency ) and the British Government. How many more information is necessary for this page to remain where it is, and one would expect under WP:NC? -- Philip Baird Shearer 17:45, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't agree with you on this statment about their web site, but even if it were true, it would not be true for this official document (listed above) on the ECB website. -- Philip Baird Shearer 17:59, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
WP:NC says nothing about naming consistency, it says use the common name. In this case the two meld togehter because the common name is the same as the official name the "Euro symbol". As you point out a redirect can be used, and to keep the article at the common name ad official name (Not only used in Europe but also more frequently used in the British Parliament), a redirect can be used from euro sign to Euro symbol as it is now. -- Philip Baird Shearer 21:42, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
The sentence "Actually the designer of the sign is Alain Billiet." was just removed for the reason "rv v" which I take to mean "revert vandalism". What's the story? Evertype 09:49, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Jenny Wong, I think the original text saying that the Commission somewhat naïvely believed that the logo was going to be used in all fonts is more accurate. I was a member of a CEN committee and we met with officials about getting the thing into computers, and they really did believe that everyone was going to do it that way. Naïveté is the word for that, isn't it? Evertype 21:05, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Article text: “The official story of the design history of the euro sign is disputed by Arthur Eisenmenger, a former chief graphic designer for the EEC, whose claims to have had the idea before. Eisenmenger's undisputed design achievements include the flag of the European Union.” However, the European flag page says it was designed by Arsène Heitz. - Ahruman 07:20, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Gnomon says: Why not just change it to Arsene Heitz, then? I don't know how these things are done on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.120.81.130 ( talk) 10:56, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I offer me to create & upload a SVG version of the euro design image. -- Walter Humala - Emperor of West Wikipedia |wanna Talk? 02:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Before an edit war ensues I thought I'd address this here... Do we think this article has too many illustrations piled together or do we think this is a positive thing? Tomsintown 23:07, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Wy is Alain Billiet not mentioned? It is he that is the designer of the sign. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.201.146.151 ( talk) 18:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC).
Arthur Eisenmenger says that he is the designer.-- Gloriamarie 04:39, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm curious to see what the other 10 designs were that voters chose from. It would be interesting to add a link to pictures in the article. I took a quick look on a search engine but didn't find anything. Does anyone have a link to those designs? Gloriamarie 21:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Removed "the American-style "¢" occasionally in Ireland" from the section referencing abbreviations for cent. There's no support for this statement given, and being Irish, having lived there my entire life, I've never once seen this. If it does occur, it's not notable and would be misleading. 213.94.244.94 20:18, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Please provide some input as to which font to use in the blue box. I prefer sans-serif (Arial), simply because it matches the original design closest. Another editor disagrees, So I'm putting up for discussion here. — Edokter • Talk • 20:18, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there any basis for the claim that this is a common way to denote prices in Europe? I haven't seen it anywhere in Germany, France or England (the latter of which would not be an authority on usage of the symbol anyway). Maybe I'm just blind, but does anybody really use the Euro sign as seperator when the price includes cents? --— Ashmodai ( talk · contribs) 19:36, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Є is not a Greek epsilon. Is this an error by Wikipedia or by the creator of the Euro sign?-- 77.241.141.10 ( talk) 17:56, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
It is, in fact, an epsilon. It's a commonly used form of the letter epsilon (like the different versions of the letters "a" and "g"), technically called "Lunate Epsilon") -- for example, it's the form used in the font Lucida Sans Unicode, although the character used here is not actually an epsilon but a Cyrillic letter (I think?) that looks effectively the same. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon. It's safe to remove the "sic." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.71.10.220 ( talk) 09:47, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Don't know if this is of any interest for the article on the euro sign, but apparently an early (1970s?) draft of a European single currency symbol looked more or less like a double-stroke E (see [3]).
Speculation-mode on: In my eyes this creation avoids some of the typographical problems that come with €, trading them in, however, for a complicated design. An alloglyph Ɇ would seem a natural evolution ... Anothername ( talk) 17:53, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Is the paragraph about key combinations necessary? It could never be full and comprehensive, since there are tons of layouts, languages etc. Besides, Wikipedia is not an instruction manual. — Volgar ( talk) 07:24, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
>font designers made it clear that they intended to design their own variants instead.[4]
Citation [4] is just an e-mail discussion. Is there any way to know if these people are actually designers of broadly used fonts, and whether they actually wrote what [4] says they wrote? For evidence that designers ended up adapting the glyph to their font styles, wouldn't it be better to simply cite how the glyph appears in various broadly used fonts, like Book Antiqua, Times, Arial, Helvetica, and so on? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.87.39 ( talk) 07:55, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
The drawing that shows how the Euro sign is designed geometrically is incorrect. The drawing itself does not match the numbers displayed. Specifically, compare 7,5 (horizontal) to what is actually drawn. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.191.194.63 ( talk) 12:23, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
The following is on the "euro sign" page: "for example €0.05 or €–.05"
I believe there are two problems with this quote. First, why is there a leading 0 before 0.05, but not before -.05? The APA Style manual suggests having a leading 0 whenever a number could be greater than 1 or less than -1 (probabilities and correlations are bounded, and do not have a leading 0. So it should be -0.05 with the leading zero.
Second, it seems like the minus sign should come before the euro sign, i.e., –€0.05. Excel follows this convention. It should be addressed on the page.
I have another question about when to spell out numbers. APA suggests spelling out numbers less than 10 unless they are followed by a unit of measure. The example they give is "5-mg dose" as being correct. But what about currency. Is it correct to say "€5" or "five euros"? I assume that "€20" is correct but "twenty euros" is incorrect, since 20 is greater than 10.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ecmalthouse ( talk • contribs) 19:53, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
The '-' is to show that nothing is in that digit place _not_ to show that the amount is negative. Consider this, often used on checks '--/00' instead of '00/00' or 'no more/oo' 38.97.15.104 ( talk) 17:41, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
It is only one particular style that doesn't leave a space after the euro sign when it precedes the number. Other styles do leave a space (I am a translator, and I always leave a space). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.223.242 ( talk) 08:39, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
You could extract it from File:Euro_Construction.svg, but in case it's of use to anyone here's a much smaller hand-built version of the official logo (the math to find the coordinates of the upper-right corner was fun). If you're trying to follow, it starts on the leftmost corner of the lower horizontal bar and begins by going clockwise around the outside of the shape. Also remember that SVG coordinates have positive Y down; negative Y is up.
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" viewBox="-7.5 -6 11.753378 12" style="background-color:#171976"> <title>Euro logo</title> <desc>Offical euro logo</desc> <path fill="#F7E017" d="M -7.5,1.5 l .415699,-1 H -5.979130 a 6,6 0 0,1 0,-1 H -7.5 l .415699,-1 H -5.809475 A 6,6 0 0,1 4.253378,-4.231876 L 3.830222,-3.213938 A 5,5 0 0,0 -4.769696,-1.5 H 3.117740 l -.415699,1 H -4.974937 a 5,5 0 0,0 0,1 H 2.286343 l -.415699,1 H -4.769696 A 5,5 0 0,0 3.830222,3.213938 V 4.618376 A 6,6 0 0,1 -5.809475,1.5 Z"/> </svg>
Here's an even smaller one drawn as three overlapping shapes, rather than one complex outline
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" viewBox="-7.5 -6 11.753378 12" style="background-color:#171976"> <title>Euro logo</title> <desc>Offical euro logo</desc> <path fill="#F7E017" d=" M 3.830222,-3.213938 A 5,5 0 1,0 3.830222,3.213938 V 4.618376 A 6,6 0 1,1 4.253378,-4.231876 Z M -7.5,-.5 l .415699,-1 H 3.117740 l -.415699,1 Z M -7.5,1.5 l .415699,-1 H 2.286343 l -.415699,1 Z"/> </svg>
These require full SVG because the basic and tiny subsets don't support circular arcs in paths; they must be approximated by splines.
The background and foreground ("fill=") specifications are approximations to the official Pantone colours; obviously they can be deleted if you want basic black-on-white. 71.41.210.146 ( talk) 12:43, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
i.e. a list of character set configurations/standards on various computers which support Euro, e.g. 8859-15, 8859-16, IBM EBCDIC 1140 (37-2?), UCS2/UTF/Unicode, Microsoft code pages etc. This information is spread across several articles currently (with some in this article in the text), would be useful to bring together to one place as an easy to use reference list (linking to relevant code pages). Or could be in the See Also section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.72.50.58 ( talk) 09:41, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
The Euro is NOT the official currency of the European Union. It is the official currency of the Euro Zone. The Euro Zone only includes a subset of the EU member states. I think this should be fixed with some information added to what the Euro Zone is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.198.108.47 ( talk) 23:46, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
I have tagged this statement as dubious
The euro currency sign was designed to be similar in structure to the old sign for the European Currency Unit (encoded as U+20A0 ₠ EURO-CURRENCY SIGN).
and will delete unless someone produces a citation very soon. It is not cited and there is really no similarity between ₠ and € except maybe the top left corner of the C and the cross bar of the E, which are mere coincidences. It has more in common with an Italian Lira sign (₤). -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 06:33, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:587:410e:ca26:4dee:7c1b:83ec:a3c1 ( talk) 20:45, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Trying to figure out how to type it in the Greek layout keyboard, I noticed that both combos AltGr+E and Ctrl+Alt+E work (in any text field, not only MS Word - I'm on Windows 10), meaning that "Ctrl+Alt+e in Microsoft Word in United States and more layouts" (as I updated now) should maybe be rephrased, as it seems to work with more layouts and outside of MS Word? Of course after people with different language layouts verify that.-- Jimkats ( talk) 12:53, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
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The euro sign (€) is the currency symbol used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and a few other European countries. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996, and consists of a stylized letter E (or epsilon) crossed by two lines instead of one. While the Commission intended the euro sign to be a prescribed glyph, type designers made it clear that they intended instead to adapt the design to be consistent with the typefaces to which the symbol was to be added. Euro banknotes and coins entered into circulation on 1 January 2002, making it the day-to-day operating currency of its original members. This diagram shows the construction of the euro sign as formally specified by the European Commission. Diagram credit: Erina
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The result of the debate was move. — Nightst a llion (?) 11:53, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
A Google search returns:
-- Philip Baird Shearer 16:54, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Google the UK parliament returns:
Apart from Common usage (~ 3 to 1 in a Google search) and official usage, not not only by ECB and the European Commission ( The €uro: Our Currency ) and the British Government. How many more information is necessary for this page to remain where it is, and one would expect under WP:NC? -- Philip Baird Shearer 17:45, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't agree with you on this statment about their web site, but even if it were true, it would not be true for this official document (listed above) on the ECB website. -- Philip Baird Shearer 17:59, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
WP:NC says nothing about naming consistency, it says use the common name. In this case the two meld togehter because the common name is the same as the official name the "Euro symbol". As you point out a redirect can be used, and to keep the article at the common name ad official name (Not only used in Europe but also more frequently used in the British Parliament), a redirect can be used from euro sign to Euro symbol as it is now. -- Philip Baird Shearer 21:42, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
The sentence "Actually the designer of the sign is Alain Billiet." was just removed for the reason "rv v" which I take to mean "revert vandalism". What's the story? Evertype 09:49, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Jenny Wong, I think the original text saying that the Commission somewhat naïvely believed that the logo was going to be used in all fonts is more accurate. I was a member of a CEN committee and we met with officials about getting the thing into computers, and they really did believe that everyone was going to do it that way. Naïveté is the word for that, isn't it? Evertype 21:05, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Article text: “The official story of the design history of the euro sign is disputed by Arthur Eisenmenger, a former chief graphic designer for the EEC, whose claims to have had the idea before. Eisenmenger's undisputed design achievements include the flag of the European Union.” However, the European flag page says it was designed by Arsène Heitz. - Ahruman 07:20, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Gnomon says: Why not just change it to Arsene Heitz, then? I don't know how these things are done on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.120.81.130 ( talk) 10:56, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I offer me to create & upload a SVG version of the euro design image. -- Walter Humala - Emperor of West Wikipedia |wanna Talk? 02:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Before an edit war ensues I thought I'd address this here... Do we think this article has too many illustrations piled together or do we think this is a positive thing? Tomsintown 23:07, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Wy is Alain Billiet not mentioned? It is he that is the designer of the sign. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.201.146.151 ( talk) 18:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC).
Arthur Eisenmenger says that he is the designer.-- Gloriamarie 04:39, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm curious to see what the other 10 designs were that voters chose from. It would be interesting to add a link to pictures in the article. I took a quick look on a search engine but didn't find anything. Does anyone have a link to those designs? Gloriamarie 21:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Removed "the American-style "¢" occasionally in Ireland" from the section referencing abbreviations for cent. There's no support for this statement given, and being Irish, having lived there my entire life, I've never once seen this. If it does occur, it's not notable and would be misleading. 213.94.244.94 20:18, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Please provide some input as to which font to use in the blue box. I prefer sans-serif (Arial), simply because it matches the original design closest. Another editor disagrees, So I'm putting up for discussion here. — Edokter • Talk • 20:18, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there any basis for the claim that this is a common way to denote prices in Europe? I haven't seen it anywhere in Germany, France or England (the latter of which would not be an authority on usage of the symbol anyway). Maybe I'm just blind, but does anybody really use the Euro sign as seperator when the price includes cents? --— Ashmodai ( talk · contribs) 19:36, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Є is not a Greek epsilon. Is this an error by Wikipedia or by the creator of the Euro sign?-- 77.241.141.10 ( talk) 17:56, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
It is, in fact, an epsilon. It's a commonly used form of the letter epsilon (like the different versions of the letters "a" and "g"), technically called "Lunate Epsilon") -- for example, it's the form used in the font Lucida Sans Unicode, although the character used here is not actually an epsilon but a Cyrillic letter (I think?) that looks effectively the same. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon. It's safe to remove the "sic." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.71.10.220 ( talk) 09:47, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Don't know if this is of any interest for the article on the euro sign, but apparently an early (1970s?) draft of a European single currency symbol looked more or less like a double-stroke E (see [3]).
Speculation-mode on: In my eyes this creation avoids some of the typographical problems that come with €, trading them in, however, for a complicated design. An alloglyph Ɇ would seem a natural evolution ... Anothername ( talk) 17:53, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Is the paragraph about key combinations necessary? It could never be full and comprehensive, since there are tons of layouts, languages etc. Besides, Wikipedia is not an instruction manual. — Volgar ( talk) 07:24, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
>font designers made it clear that they intended to design their own variants instead.[4]
Citation [4] is just an e-mail discussion. Is there any way to know if these people are actually designers of broadly used fonts, and whether they actually wrote what [4] says they wrote? For evidence that designers ended up adapting the glyph to their font styles, wouldn't it be better to simply cite how the glyph appears in various broadly used fonts, like Book Antiqua, Times, Arial, Helvetica, and so on? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.87.39 ( talk) 07:55, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
The drawing that shows how the Euro sign is designed geometrically is incorrect. The drawing itself does not match the numbers displayed. Specifically, compare 7,5 (horizontal) to what is actually drawn. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.191.194.63 ( talk) 12:23, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
The following is on the "euro sign" page: "for example €0.05 or €–.05"
I believe there are two problems with this quote. First, why is there a leading 0 before 0.05, but not before -.05? The APA Style manual suggests having a leading 0 whenever a number could be greater than 1 or less than -1 (probabilities and correlations are bounded, and do not have a leading 0. So it should be -0.05 with the leading zero.
Second, it seems like the minus sign should come before the euro sign, i.e., –€0.05. Excel follows this convention. It should be addressed on the page.
I have another question about when to spell out numbers. APA suggests spelling out numbers less than 10 unless they are followed by a unit of measure. The example they give is "5-mg dose" as being correct. But what about currency. Is it correct to say "€5" or "five euros"? I assume that "€20" is correct but "twenty euros" is incorrect, since 20 is greater than 10.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ecmalthouse ( talk • contribs) 19:53, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
The '-' is to show that nothing is in that digit place _not_ to show that the amount is negative. Consider this, often used on checks '--/00' instead of '00/00' or 'no more/oo' 38.97.15.104 ( talk) 17:41, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
It is only one particular style that doesn't leave a space after the euro sign when it precedes the number. Other styles do leave a space (I am a translator, and I always leave a space). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.223.242 ( talk) 08:39, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
You could extract it from File:Euro_Construction.svg, but in case it's of use to anyone here's a much smaller hand-built version of the official logo (the math to find the coordinates of the upper-right corner was fun). If you're trying to follow, it starts on the leftmost corner of the lower horizontal bar and begins by going clockwise around the outside of the shape. Also remember that SVG coordinates have positive Y down; negative Y is up.
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" viewBox="-7.5 -6 11.753378 12" style="background-color:#171976"> <title>Euro logo</title> <desc>Offical euro logo</desc> <path fill="#F7E017" d="M -7.5,1.5 l .415699,-1 H -5.979130 a 6,6 0 0,1 0,-1 H -7.5 l .415699,-1 H -5.809475 A 6,6 0 0,1 4.253378,-4.231876 L 3.830222,-3.213938 A 5,5 0 0,0 -4.769696,-1.5 H 3.117740 l -.415699,1 H -4.974937 a 5,5 0 0,0 0,1 H 2.286343 l -.415699,1 H -4.769696 A 5,5 0 0,0 3.830222,3.213938 V 4.618376 A 6,6 0 0,1 -5.809475,1.5 Z"/> </svg>
Here's an even smaller one drawn as three overlapping shapes, rather than one complex outline
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" viewBox="-7.5 -6 11.753378 12" style="background-color:#171976"> <title>Euro logo</title> <desc>Offical euro logo</desc> <path fill="#F7E017" d=" M 3.830222,-3.213938 A 5,5 0 1,0 3.830222,3.213938 V 4.618376 A 6,6 0 1,1 4.253378,-4.231876 Z M -7.5,-.5 l .415699,-1 H 3.117740 l -.415699,1 Z M -7.5,1.5 l .415699,-1 H 2.286343 l -.415699,1 Z"/> </svg>
These require full SVG because the basic and tiny subsets don't support circular arcs in paths; they must be approximated by splines.
The background and foreground ("fill=") specifications are approximations to the official Pantone colours; obviously they can be deleted if you want basic black-on-white. 71.41.210.146 ( talk) 12:43, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
i.e. a list of character set configurations/standards on various computers which support Euro, e.g. 8859-15, 8859-16, IBM EBCDIC 1140 (37-2?), UCS2/UTF/Unicode, Microsoft code pages etc. This information is spread across several articles currently (with some in this article in the text), would be useful to bring together to one place as an easy to use reference list (linking to relevant code pages). Or could be in the See Also section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.72.50.58 ( talk) 09:41, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
The Euro is NOT the official currency of the European Union. It is the official currency of the Euro Zone. The Euro Zone only includes a subset of the EU member states. I think this should be fixed with some information added to what the Euro Zone is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.198.108.47 ( talk) 23:46, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
I have tagged this statement as dubious
The euro currency sign was designed to be similar in structure to the old sign for the European Currency Unit (encoded as U+20A0 ₠ EURO-CURRENCY SIGN).
and will delete unless someone produces a citation very soon. It is not cited and there is really no similarity between ₠ and € except maybe the top left corner of the C and the cross bar of the E, which are mere coincidences. It has more in common with an Italian Lira sign (₤). -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 06:33, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:587:410e:ca26:4dee:7c1b:83ec:a3c1 ( talk) 20:45, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Trying to figure out how to type it in the Greek layout keyboard, I noticed that both combos AltGr+E and Ctrl+Alt+E work (in any text field, not only MS Word - I'm on Windows 10), meaning that "Ctrl+Alt+e in Microsoft Word in United States and more layouts" (as I updated now) should maybe be rephrased, as it seems to work with more layouts and outside of MS Word? Of course after people with different language layouts verify that.-- Jimkats ( talk) 12:53, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello! This is to let editors know that File:Euro Construction.svg, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for January 1, 2022. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2022-01-01. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 20:50, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
The euro sign (€) is the currency symbol used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and a few other European countries. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996, and consists of a stylized letter E (or epsilon) crossed by two lines instead of one. While the Commission intended the euro sign to be a prescribed glyph, type designers made it clear that they intended instead to adapt the design to be consistent with the typefaces to which the symbol was to be added. Euro banknotes and coins entered into circulation on 1 January 2002, making it the day-to-day operating currency of its original members. This diagram shows the construction of the euro sign as formally specified by the European Commission. Diagram credit: Erina
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