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Currency Symbols

Posted 9 years ago
POSTED BY: john wylie
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This is really interesting, I have also took this up to my professor who is also using mathematica, thanks for making it more clearer for me. - Paramount Song

That gives you a list, but things are quite a bit murkier, since Mathematica accepts other input and displays the results in yet different ways. Try this:

CurrencyConvert[Quantity[100, "\[Euro]"], "?"]

Perhaps the list you found could be considered Mathematica's internal standard.

POSTED BY: John Doty

There are really two questions here, I think:

As far as displaying the symbols, Mathematica uses Unicode, so the table at http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20A0.pdf is relevant. See the second page for a list of currency symbols outside the 20A0 block. I don't believe Mathematica generally "knows" these represent currency, they are just characters it's prepared to use.

As far a currency units in its external databases, I don't know if it's even possible to run the heuristics by which it deduces units in reverse and get a list of possible inputs. This is surely a moving target.

POSTED BY: John Doty
Posted 9 years ago
POSTED BY: john wylie
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