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Currency symbol[edit]

Apparently the dollar sign is usually used as the escudo sign; Unicode seems to unify them. Is there any good reason to use that ugly TeX markup instead of a plain old dollar sign? Hairy Dude 04:26, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Because it has 2 bars? --Chochopk 05:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Correct. The escudo sign is not usually part of character sets, so an approximate representation has to be used and that coincides with the dollar sign. --maf 12:08, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have to say that in practical use (even in official use) the usal standrd dollar sign ($) was used when referring to the escudo. actually it is the first time I see this distinction, but it may be of course my own ignorance. --BBird 15:32, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall to have ever seen the dollar $ign. Everywhere, if possible, the 2 vertical bars were used with two zeros on the right side (remnant habit from the times when fractions were significant, before progressive depreciation). The dollar sign was solely used when the double bar sign was not available in character sets. --Richard George 02:54, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Correct. The escudo sign is not usually part of character sets, so an approximate representation has to be used and that coincides with the dollar sign. --maf 12:08, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have to say that in practical use (even in official use) the usal standrd dollar sign ($) was used when referring to the escudo. actually it is the first time I see this distinction, but it may be of course my own ignorance. --BBird 15:32, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall to have ever seen the dollar $ign. Everywhere, if possible, the 2 vertical bars were used with two zeros on the right side (remnant habit from the times when fractions were significant, before progressive depreciation). The dollar sign was solely used when the double bar sign was not available in character sets. --Richard George 02:54, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Right. The dollar sign was (wrongly) used when personal computers come around as computer character sets do not have a cifrão one. Much in the same vein (influence of computer use and handheld calculators), people are now (wrongly) using the dot as a decimal separator, although the decimal separator for languages other than English is the comma (ISO). --Xyzt1234 11:05, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Crappy Symbol[edit]

The current cifrão symbol is really crappy. Is there a way to replace it with a better one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.180.226.34 (talk) 20:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Escudo sign is in Private Area of unicode characters thus it won't display in most computers[edit]

I suggest that we replace it with math symbols or something else. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:30, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Math coding would work, though what we had looked a bit sloppy, like overtyping on a manual typewriter. I took the suggestion of the article and forced the font: $. (I left off the Chinese fonts to save bytes, and rearranged a bit so the more official-looking fonts come first – Brush script doesn't match default browser fonts, so it comes last.) — kwami (talk) 00:02, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

8 gold escudos[edit]

In the description of the reverse of the "John V" coin, it's stated that the Portuguese coat of arms is supported by "two dragons."

I think if further research is done, it'll be found that the animals are "seahorses," not dragons.

Just a numismatic observation. 2600:8800:784:8F00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 00:36, 20 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Incomprehensible statement[edit]

After Symbol it says:

($; substituted with ⟨$⟩ when ⟨$⟩ not available)

These three symbols look identical, so what the fuck is meant by this?