Member phr… Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Is anyone still using the currency symbol? Has the euro symbol universally replaced it? Alas poor currency.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...from the Fontry Link to comment
Member cut… Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 As far as I know, the "sputnik" currency symbol is still used as a placeholder in some text editors and spreadsheet programs and such. This was always a substitute symbol to be used when a proper symbol wasn't available for any given currency, though, and had nothing in particular to do with the euro. However, since it saw such little use, many font foundries placed the euro symbol in its slot for a while as a hack to make the euro available before proper Unicode encoding became prevalent. There used to be the "ECU" which had the ligated CE symbol, but that was barely more than a conceptual finance basket when it was replaced by the euro hard currency. Link to comment
Member par… Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Another name for this useless character is louse. And it "has no typographic function. It merely holds a place on the font ..." See Bringhurst, The Elements ..., p. 305 Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Useless!? It's essential for setting the word "C¤sm¤naut" Link to comment
Member apa… Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 The running joke back when I went to high school was that this was a symbol for Roubles. On the keyboards of Yamaha computers we had in a computer lab the symbol sat between $, £ and ¥, so it implied it was a currency sign. And since the lab together with the high school was in Russia, it was only natural to assign the symbol to the Roubles :-) Link to comment
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