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Older currency symbols have evolved slowly, often from previous currencies. The modern dollar and peso symbols originated from the mark employed to denote the Spanish dollar, whereas the pound and lira symbols evolved from the letter L (written until the seventeenth century in blackletter type as L {\\displaystyle {\\mathfrak {L}}} ) standing for lib...

Gen­er­at­ing the euro sign using a com­puter de­pends on the op­er­at­ing sys­tem and na­tional con­ven­tions. Ini­tially, some mo­bile phone com­pa­nies is­sued an in­terim soft­ware up­date for their spe­cial SMS char­ac­ter set, re­plac­ing the less-fre­quent Japan­ese yen signwith the euro sign. Sub­se­quent mo­bile phones have both cur­rency ...

Clas­si­cal type­writ­ers are still used in many parts of the world, often re­cy­cled from busi­nesses that have adopted desk­top com­put­ers. Type­writ­ers lack­ing the euro sign can im­i­tate it by typ­ing a cap­i­tal "C", backspac­ing, and over­strik­ing it with the equals sign.

Place­ment of the sign varies. Coun­tries have gen­er­ally con­tin­ued the style used for their for­mer cur­ren­cies. In those coun­tries where pre­vi­ous con­ven­tion was to place the cur­rency sign be­fore the fig­ure, the euro sign is placed in the same po­si­tion (e.g., €3.50).In those coun­tries where the amount pre­ceded the na­tional cur­ren...