Unicode Character 'EURO-CURRENCY SIGN' (U+20A0)

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This is not the correct character for euro currency. Use U+20AC instead. See the note in Microsoft's euro currency symbol FAQ.

Unicode Data
Name	EURO-CURRENCY SIGN
Block	Currency Symbols
Category	Symbol, Currency [Sc]
Combine	0
BIDI	European Number Terminator [ET]
Mirror	N
Index entries	Currency Symbols Symbols, Currency
Comments	intended for ECU, but not widely used historical character; this is NOT the euro!
See Also	euro sign U+20AC
Version	Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)

Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal)	₠
HTML Entity (hex)	₠
How to type in Microsoft Windows	Alt +20A0
UTF-8 (hex)	0xE2 0x82 0xA0 (e282a0)
UTF-8 (binary)	11100010:10000010:10100000
UTF-16 (hex)	0x20A0 (20a0)
UTF-16 (decimal)	8,352
UTF-32 (hex)	0x000020A0 (20a0)
UTF-32 (decimal)	8,352
C/C++/Java source code	"\u20A0"
Python source code	u"\u20A0"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase()	₠
string.toLowerCase()	₠
Character.UnicodeBlock	CURRENCY_SYMBOLS
Character.charCount()	1
Character.getDirectionality()	DIRECTIONALITY_EUROPEAN_NUMBER_TERMINATOR [5]
Character.getNumericValue()	-1
Character.getType()	26
Character.isDefined()	Yes
Character.isDigit()	No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable()	No
Character.isISOControl()	No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart()	Yes
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart()	Yes
Character.isLetter()	No
Character.isLetterOrDigit()	No
Character.isLowerCase()	No
Character.isMirrored()	No
Character.isSpaceChar()	No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint()	No
Character.isTitleCase()	No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart()	No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart()	No
Character.isUpperCase()	No
Character.isValidCodePoint()	Yes
Character.isWhitespace()	No