Questions tagged [euro]

The euro (symbol: €) is the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union and is the official currency of the eurozone. Tag euro can be used for programming questions related to euro symbol € and its container character set

Wiki:

The euro (symbol: €) is the currency used by the Institutions of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union and is the official currency of the eurozone.

Entry methods:

In Unicode Sign Euro is encoded at U+20AC.
In HTML Euro sign is written as € or € whiche renders as €.

Generating the euro sign using a computer depends on the operating system and national conventions. Depending on keyboard layout and the operating system, the symbol can be entered as:

AltGr + 4 (UK)

AltGr + 5 (US)

Ctrl + Alt + 4 (UK)

Ctrl + Alt + 5 (US)

Ctrl + Alt + e in in United States layout

Alt + 0128 in Microsoft

Usage:

Tag can be used for programming questions related to euro symbol and its character set. Questions on Stackoverflow are supposed to be related to programming, please avoid currency trading based questions.

Read more:

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro
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How to display the currency symbol to the right in Angular

I have to display Euro currency like this : 583 €. But with this code: {{ price | currency:'EUR':true }} I get €583, is there any option in Angular core to move the symbol to right? A lot of european countries use the symbol at the right (France,…
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Calculation, replace dot with a comma

I have an order form on which I use the jQuery Calculation Plugin to sum up the total. This summing up works fine, yet there is a problem with the produced 'sum'. In the sum I wish to replace any dot with a comma. The basis of the code is; function…
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Euro sign in HTML

The euro (€) is the official currency in 22 European states. In HTML there are different possibilities to display the sign €: € € € Which one would you use in HTML? I think no representation is supported in all browsers. It's a…
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Problems with FPDF and Euro symbol

I've spent a couple of days sifting through various methods to encourage FPDF to render the Euro symbol, but none have succeeded. I have: $currency = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", '€'); Which results in: iconv() [function.iconv]: Detected…
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Trying to get the euro symbol using chr(128)

I expected this code: define('EURO_SIMBOLO', chr(128)); $euro = EURO_SIMBOLO; var_dump($euro); to show the € symbol, but it doesn't. Why does this happen?
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Hex representation of Euro Symbol €

I was using XVI32 (Hex Editor) to get the hex representation of the Euro symbol and it gives me the value as 80. Another site: http://www.string-functions.com/string-hex.aspx does the same. I am not able to understand why the hex representation is…
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How to solve €25.99 vs 25,99€ preg_match problem?

If I have these strings: $string1 = "This book costs €25.99 in our shop." and on the other side $string2 = "This book costs 25,99€ in our shop." How to get the "€25.99" or "25,99€" using preg_match ? How will the code look like? Please, notice…
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Replace comma and dot in Pandas

I have a Column with data like 3.4500,00 EUR. Now I want to compare this with another column having float numbers like 4000.00. How do I take this string, remove the EUR and replace comma with decimal and then convert into float to compare?
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Plotting Euro Symbol € in ggplot2?

Euro Symbol € is shown as ... at PDF output ggplot() + theme_bw() + geom_line() + scale_y_continuous(formatter = "euro")
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How to: output Euro symbol in pdfkit for nodejs

Is it possible to display the Euro symbol in pdfkit for nodejs without having to embed an external font? I am using pdfKit to generate invoices and would like to prefix my currency amounts with the Euro Symbol (€). I've tried a number of approaches…
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In which encoding is 0xDB a currency symbol?

I received files which, sadly, I cannot get info about how they were generated. I need to parse these files. The file is entirely ASCII besides for one character: 0xDB (in decimal it gives 219). Obviously (from looking at the file) this character…
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HTML escape for euro character not being interpreted in textarea?

It's showing € instead of the € (currency sign) in the textarea. Does anyone have an idea why this is going wrong?
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unable to print euro symbol in a "C" program

I am unable to print the euro symbol. The program I am using is below. I have set the character set to codepage 1250 which has 0x80 standing for the euro symbol. Program ======= #include #include int main() { …
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Euro sign not showing up right in HTML

I have a page on my site with a form for editing event information and Updating it to the database. I have a select box with options for Admission Price, which are all preceded by a euro sign in my HTML code, but are showing up as �1 on the webpage.…
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How to get a "€" (u+20AC) character in a postgres UTF8 client encoding?

I only found some strange results online where somebody tried select E'\x020AC', select E'\x020\x0AC' or select E'\x0AC\x020' but none worked.
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