Making pound and euro symbols

€! Hey, it works!

on Mac, shift-option 2=€
option 3=£

The above only works with a full keyboard (not a laptop), and only on Windows (different methods on Mac and Linux).

• Hold down the alt key on the LEFT of the space bar.
• Type the 4 digit number on the numeric keypad, including the leading zero.
• release the alt key

You can do anything you like, including Greek, Russian and Chinese if you know the four digit code. But it is usually simpler just to copy and paste.

Each country has a different keyboard, with the keys needed for the language(s) in that country. Thus a British keyboard has a £, a US keyboard does not.
I have all sorts of interesting keys on my (Swiss) keyboard): Ää Öö Üü é è à â ç € ñ etc.

On iPad hold down the $ and additional options come up.

On my MacBook Air, in Safari, you can click on "edit", then "emojis & symbols", then "currency symbols". Then double click on the symbol you want to use. But-JerryG, your way is a LOT easier and quicker!

£, € and ¥. Any type of money is music 🎵 to my ears.

Thanks, Tom, very handy! I've been known to cut-and-paste symbols in the past.

I use a lot of special symbols at work, and I keep a sticky note (a feature in Windows) up on the desktop with the symbols typed out with spaces in between them. When I need a °, a ±, or a § they're right there to cut and paste. I do know the codes for en and em dashes by heart... #publishinglife

On iPad hold down the $ and additional options come up

Same on iPhone! Now to be completely accurate need a list of which countries use which format:

€ 123
€123 (no space)
123€ (no space)
123 €

For accurate posting on each country forum.

Love my Samsung tablet. Hit Sym and a new keyboard pops up with €, £, $, ¥. But no cents sign. So I can only give people my $0.02 worth.

My iPad has what someone else noted whee you can hold the $ down and several options pop up. Also on the iPad keyboard if you go to numbers then symbols, € £ and ¥ are actually keys. Very helpful! I was also thrilled recently when I found out if I hold the o down, the ö option pops up. I would have been posting proper German town names on here long ago if I knew that!

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Interesting...I used to be able to make the symbols using the ALT key to the left of the space bar before I upgraded to Windows 10 or whatever we've got now. Then I completely lost the ability to do so. Just tried again, no dice, BUT I for some reason realized there is an ALT key to the right of the space bar and YEA!! THAT works. I probably would not have noticed (not totally computer literate) except Chris F made a point of saying to the left of the space bar.

So...to anyone who can't get it to work on a laptop with the left ALT key, try the right one €£!

Thanks!
(and yes, I can do the ü again too!)

MAC instructions are not quite right. "Shift-option-2" does indeed produce €, but for £ it is simply "option-3 " (no shift), easily remembered as the # is on the 3. And it is doing this in my Firefox as I respond.

And it's even easier on the Apple tablets. €, £ (and the Yen symbol, ¥ by "option-Y on the MAC keyboard) are all accessed by direct keys after selecting the Symbols keyboard, #+=, which appears where the numbers-keyboard key was when numbers keyboard is selected. You only need to hold the "$ key" for options if you want the Ruble, Won, or a Cent sign

Marking for future reference. Thanks.

€ ¥ £ ¢ all on the #2 numeric screen of my Samsung 6 phone. Not to mention ¡ and ¿ in case I want to do Spanish.
Thanks for the tip about holding down letter keys!!
ß ü è æ My typing may get much better!!

I just type the ISO code (GBP, EUR, JPY) for the currencies. It is easier to remember and fewer keystrokes. I don't think there is an ISO code for the musical note :)

I just find one of the symbols I need and then copy it and paste. :-)

Yes, different countries have their own keyboards, even in Canada the keyboard is different from that in the US. I saw that in Quebec. In Austria and Germany you can hit the key for the "ß" or umlaut letters, the ö,ü,ä instead of using alt and the number key pad, like wise in France for their marked letters...the ç, é, and others when writing French.

...and then there's Cyrillic.

Thanks for making life simpler, Tom.

What Mark does. No need to memorize oddball keystrokes.

If you click the "windows" key (between the Ctrl and Alt keys on a PC), you can go to the character map and select almost any off-keyboard character, like ², ±, ½, , °, or · .

Most laptops have the numeric keypad keys on the alphanumeric keyboard, using the <Fn> key. For instance numeric keyboard 2 is <Fn> + "K". For ü, hold the <Alt> and <Fn> keys down and press "KIK".

Chromebooks use Unicode characters. Currency Unicodes: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Sc/list.htm

CTRL + Shift + u
When the lower case underscored u appears add the four "digit" Unicode then "enter":

20ac = €
00a3 = £
00a5 = ¥

But its easier to just type in :
EUR
GBP
Yen or JPY

We use Linux Ubuntu, and the right Alt key makes sticky keys. So right-alt L followed by - ( the dash) makes £
Right-alt e followed by = makes € Right-alt u followed by " makes ü
Polish barred L? Right-alt l followed by / makes ł Ł Holding the shift key with the right-alt l gave me the capital.

It's fun to play with. You can make all kinds of interesting characters. ç ñ ö ą ä and so on.

I'm not following a lot of the methods here. Whatever is needed to initiate using codes eur or gbp, I've tried a few ways and they are not working.

The character map is pretty involved, All Programs → Accessories → System Tools → Character Map then panning way down the list for £ and €, then copying and pasting. But every symbol is there. I have used Word (insert>>symbol) then copied and pasted in.

As to the availability of Character Map, I have pinned it to my taskbar, and it is thus available. Very easy. I know that all symbols are available using the alt+???? but I don't know by heart umlauts, cap umlauts, etc.

Whatever is needed to initiate using codes eur or gbp, I've tried a few ways and they are not working.

Tom, those are not keyboard codes to get € and £. Those are the official 3-letter codes used by banks, airlines and others that work in multiple currencies. It is the 2-letter UN abbreviation for the country, followed (usually) by the initial of the currency name. Other examples, DKK, CZK, CHF, PLN (Polish new złoty), USD, CAD, SAR. They are the simplest and most unambiguous things to use. Just typing $ is ambiguous.
alt+1 ☺

Tom, those are not keyboard codes to get € and £.

That's no fun.

It is the 2-letter UN abbreviation for the country, followed (usually) by the initial of the currency name

So what are €? EUE? Or any country within the Eurozone + E. How are DEE different from FRE?

Oh, EUR. Is that European Union Roubles or Riyal?

Lee, It did say "followed (usually) by the initial of the currency name". EUR is the one that doesn't follow the rule. I guess as "EUR" was the obvious abbreviation for Euro, they chose it over "EUE".
"EU" is the normal abbreviation for the EU, it would be silly to use each country's code when it is a common currency.

These are official codes, regulated by the International Standards Organisation, which is a UN organisation. They may not be well known in North America, but in Europe you see them in banks, airlines use them and they are even used on on rail tickets.

For a full list see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217

But every EU member is not necessarily a member of the Eurozone (think UK, DK). I don't think € is ambiguous. To me, $ is not ambiguous; when I write $ I mean what you call USD.

But Mexican Peso is also noted with $ at least in Mexico.

$ is not ambiguous....

While the $ sign may not be ambiguous to those of us in the USA, the Dollar sign $ is used by other countries to denote their currencies. Some that come to mind:
Canadian Dollar $ (CAD)
Australian Dollar $ (AUD)
New Zealand Dollar $ (NZD)
Singapore Dollar $ (SGD)
to name a few.

To me, $ is not ambiguous; when I write $ I mean what you call USD.

Lee, you have put in your profile "Lakewood, Colorado", which, AFAIK, is in the USA, so I guess when you write $ you mean USD.
The original poster Tom_MN (and many others) has not. If he puts $, I have no idea what he means.

I don't think € is ambiguous.

But, the start of this discussion was what to do if you don't have an € on your keyboard. The 3-letter abbreviation (EUR) can be done on any keyboard.

The Philippines Peso also uses the $ sign.

The mixing of $ usage in Mexico for both pesos and US $, sometimes on the same page, is totally wacko.

The $ by itself I think can reasonably be assumed to mean US $, in the same way that London by itself is assumed be the one in the U.K.

One $ was left out, one which never moves up or down relative to the US $...The Hong Kong $

Hong Kong Dollar Surges Most in 1 1/2 Years, Boosting Developers
Bloomberg

Justina Lee, Tian Chen
September 7, 2017

The greenback’s slide is proving too much for even the pegged Hong Kong dollar, which is heading for its biggest two-day gain against the U.S. currency since January 2016. Hong Kong’s dollar jumped 0.12 percent to HK$7.8037 against its U.S. counterpart on Friday as of 11:07 a.m. local time, after strengthening 0.15 percent on Thursday. A gauge of dollar strength....

I always saw the exchange rate 7.7 to the US $. It has been 7.7 since the 1970s.