Template talk:Navbox currency symbols/Archive 1

Various
Why is the franc sign listed as a former currency sign? As far as I know, it's still used in many parts of Africa, and other locations.

Why are only some currency signs mentioned in the table? Signs like "kr" are nowhere to be found, although other two-letter signs such as "Lm" are there. (Stefan2 21:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC))

Assuming that the currency signs should link to the present currency, I changed S/. to link to Peruvian nuevo sol, as this is the currency of Peru at this time. --ErickAgain 21:55, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Image
I actually don't think the image was to small, and thought it conveyed the jist of symbols around the world well. It should be included, if not as was, maybe the template can be stretched and implemented on the bottom of pages.  Joe  I  05:30, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Should this be a navbox?
The infobox-like format of this template has a high wrecking-ball potential for article formatting, and tells us nothing about the individual currency sign itself. It provides a nice way to navigate to different currency symbols, however. In this case, wouldn’t it be better if this were a navbox? I’d like to see input before I enact that drastic a change unilaterally, but I’ll do it in a week if there isn’t really any objection. -BRPXQZME (talk) 08:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Seeing no objection, I have gone ahead and done it, updating all articles using the template. -BRPXQZME (talk) 06:04, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Kr as symbol?
I noticed the "Kr" sign is missing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krona) Pollodiablowiki (talk) 21:01, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

A currency sign doesn't have to be "special" to be included
See this edit. removed elements with edit summary: "Removed reference to currencies which do not have a special sign. This template is about currency signs and not currencies. Only currency signs should be added and not ISO currency code". Three notes: I propose reverting the edit. -DePiep (talk) 15:03, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that it should be "currency sign", so the dollar-symbol "$" should appear once (not repeated for CAN$, US$). OK.
 * "not ISO currency code": OK, although there were no ISO currency codes (three letter codes like "USD", "GBP") there at all. OK.
 * "[removed those] which do not have a special sign": disagree. Why should they be "special"? The sign for the Lao kip is ₭ (a special), and the sign for South African rand is "R" (regular letter) as used. They both are currency signs, so they both should be in there.

sings defined in Unicode Private Use Area
I've reverted some six sign changes. They were using codes from the Unicode Private Use Area (in the range U+E000-U+FF8F). Codes in this area can have private definitions, and can have multiple different private definitions. To show correctly, the font must be present at the user side, that follows these specific definitions. The presense of such font we can not control, so the sign will show not or wrong. I've reverted those that have a general Unicode alternative, like Ft for .  and  might be different from available characters, so might need an entrance here. -DePiep (talk) 09:15, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Symbols not displaying
About a dozen of the symbols display as boxes in my browser.

A standard approach with such language or symbol issues is to display a special character notice, that tells you what to do about the matter.

I don't know which notice is appropriate.

Varlaam (talk) 18:52, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Russian Ruble
The Russian ruble has an official symbol now, ₽, this template needs to be updated to account for it. Abrahamic Faiths (talk) 02:54, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Indian rupee
The symbol for the Indian rupee is not available in the editing box. SpiritedMichelle (talk) 19:41, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
 * This in not the right place to ask, but you should be able to copy-and-paste the ₹ symbol from this template. Verbcatcher (talk) 21:03, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Proposal: rename this template as Currency signs
per WP:Common name. We have dollar sign, euro sign, indian rupee sign, pound sign, ruble sign, rupee sign: all signs no symbols.

(To make it happen will require a Requested moves/Technical requests but the procedure is different if anybody objects).

Comments? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:37, 29 November 2019 (UTC)