CENT SIGN character

CENT SIGN
U+00A2
162
¢
¢
Sc (Currency Symbol)
ET (European Number Terminator)
N
0
Latin-1 Supplement
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
¢












CENT SIGN is a currency sign from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of CENT SIGN is European Number Terminator (Weak). It belongs to the punctuation marks used with numbers, like the degree sign or currency symbols. Treated like digits when they occur as part of a number and like punctuation the rest of the time..

The European Terminator (ET) bidi class includes characters such as currency symbols ($, €, £) and other punctuation marks that typically appear alongside European numbers. ET characters are treated neutrally and ensure that symbols associated with numbers are displayed correctly in bidirectional text.

Currency Symbol (Sc) refers to characters that represent units of currency. These symbols are used in financial texts and transactions to denote money, such as the dollar sign ($), euro sign (€), and yen sign (¥).

This character belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block. The Latin-1 Supplement block extends the Basic Latin block by adding additional characters used in Western European languages. This includes letters with diacritics (such as é, ñ, and ö), punctuation marks, and symbols like the Euro sign (€). This block is part of the ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoding standard, which was widely used before the adoption of Unicode. These characters are essential for representing languages such as French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, ensuring proper orthography and typographic conventions..