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Add remaining currency symbols, deprecate franc #59

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Deprecate franc
Enivex Apr 26, 2025
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Rupee symbols
Enivex Apr 26, 2025
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All non-colon currencies
Enivex Apr 26, 2025
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Add the costa rican colon
Enivex Apr 26, 2025
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Merge branch 'main' into Currencies
Enivex May 15, 2025
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Added the Kyrgysz "som", changed spelling of "tugrik" to "togrog"
Enivex May 15, 2025
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.not ⧷
co ℅
colon :
.currency ₡
.double ∷
.tri ⁝
.tri.op ⫶
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// Currency.
afghani ؋
baht ฿
bitcoin ₿
cedi ₵
cent ¢
dollar $
dong ₫
dorome ߾
dram ֏
euro €
@deprecated: `franc` is deprecated, unadopted symbol for currency no longer in use
franc ₣
guarani ₲
hryvnia ₴
kip ₭
lari ₾
lira ₺
manat ₼
naira ₦
peso ₱
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The core spec has this to say:

Dollar and Peso. The dollar sign (U+0024) is used for many currencies in Latin America and elsewhere. In particular, this use includes current and discontinued Latin American peso currencies, such as the Mexican, Chilean, Colombian and Dominican pesos. However, the Philippine peso uses a different symbol found at U+20B1.

So maybe peso should point to $ and peso.philippine to U+20B1 ₱ PESO SIGN.

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It's the only peso (as far as I know) with its own symbol.

There's several other currencies using the dollar symbol that would then presumably also need to be added. I don't think this is a good idea.

The goal isn't to add every currency, but every currency symbol.

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There appears to be only one other currency (other than peso and dollar) that uses the dollar symbol: the Macanese pataca (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_symbol#List_of_currency_symbols_currently_in_use).

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There appears to be only one other currency (other than peso and dollar) that uses the dollar symbol: the Macanese pataca (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_symbol#List_of_currency_symbols_currently_in_use).

Ok fair enough, if we're talking currencies with truly different names, then there are only three.

The question is whether we really want to start adding multiple names for the same currency symbols?

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I don't think it's a terrible idea if we do start to add multiple names. Especially when this situation with dollar appears to be the only one (and the yen and yuan).

pound £
riel ៛
ruble ₽
rupee ₹
rupee
.indian ₹
.general ₨
.tamil ௹
.wancho 𞋿
shekel ₪
som ⃀
taka ৳
taman ߿
tenge ₸
togrog ₮
won ₩
yen ¥
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Slightly unrelated to the rest of the PR, but yuan should probably be added as an alias for ¥.

Yen and Yuan. Like the dollar sign and the pound sign, U+00A5 YEN SIGN has been used as the currency sign for more than one currency. The double-crossbar glyph is the official form for both the yen currency of Japan (JPY) and for the yuan (renminbi) currency of China (CNY). This is the case, despite the fact that some glyph standards historically specified a single-crossbar form, notably the OCR-A standard ISO 1073-1:1976, which influenced the representative glyph in various character set standards from China. In the Unicode Standard, U+00A5 YEN SIGN is intended to be the character for the currency sign for both the yen and the yuan, independent of the details of glyphic presentation.

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See my comment on dollar vs peso

Okay, in this specific case I'm slightly more convinced. However, yen and yuan have the same etymology. It's essentially a spelling difference.

That being said, it would perhaps be less controversial to have both instead of endorsing one.

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We already two different spellings for the Hebrew letters, so it's not unprecedented.


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