seems I cant put in a normal request for some reason, but they are the same thing

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topic #31834 so you get cent euro pound and even the bloody yen sign, BUT NOT THE DOLLAR SIGN?!?

it appears that the admins forgot to execute the last bit of the bur

$ is more of a "money_sign" instead of "dollar_sign" no?

I mean, doesn't many other currencies also use $ after the name of the currency?

m3g4p0n1 said:
I mean, doesn't many other currencies also use $ after the name of the currency?

They're still called "dollars" when using that symbols. e.g. Canadian Dollar, Australian Dollar, or US/American Dollar. If it's called something else, like the Pound, Euro, Yen, etc, it uses a different symbol.

watsit said:
They're still called "dollars" when using that symbols. e.g. Canadian Dollar, Australian Dollar, or US/American Dollar. If it's called something else, like the Pound, Euro, Yen, etc, it uses a different symbol.

BRL / Brazilian real uses R$ .3.

m3g4p0n1 said:
BRL / Brazilian real uses R$ .3.

Similar, but I think that "R$" would be enough to call it different. The wikipedia page at least says the symbol is "R$", not just "$" (like how ?! and ! are different symbols despite the former containing the latter).

m3g4p0n1 said:
BRL / Brazilian real uses R$ .3.

The Mexican peso also uses $, among some other countries that I can't remember right now.

But aliasing $ to money_sign is too ambiguous for me, unless we're going to alias all the currency symbols to it.

Do we really need to have distinct tags for euro_sign, pound_sign, yen_sign, rupee_sign, ruble_sign, won_sign, shekel_sign... I could continue this list forever... though?

EDIT: Oh a few of those actually exist already, complete with implications to currency_symbol. The dollar_sign tag also already has the implication in place - it's probably better to just use dollar_sign since it's the primary topic and alias peso_sign to it, unfortunate to users of the peso (or apparently the Macanese pataca) but it has to be aliased one way or the other and the dollar is much more popular on an English speaking website.

yen_sign actually has the same problem because ¥ represents both Japanese yen and Chinese yuan.

Fair enough.

But out of curiosity, why use <currency>_sign instead of just tagging the symbol? Isn't the symbols easier to mantain?

m3g4p0n1 said:
But out of curiosity, why use <currency>_sign instead of just tagging the symbol? Isn't the symbols easier to mantain?

Most of them are non-ASCII characters, and we're not allowed random Unicode symbols anymore.

You're not really going to want to figure out how to type ₪, ₹, ₾ or the dozens of others either.

faucet said:
Most of them are non-ASCII characters, and we're not allowed random Unicode symbols anymore.

You're not really going to want to figure out how to type ₪, ₹, ₾ or the dozens of others either.

I see, allowing even the most common ones would end up leading to the use of the lesser known ones, making it hard to mantain.

And I assume non-ASCII characters don't work well with automated stuff like alias and implications requests