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I am developing an eCommerce application and one of the features is that users can choose their currencies. Now, I noticed that when somebody selects the Russian Ruble, the symbol shows as just a square in Chrome on iOS (version 7.1). Why is that?

It should show this:

₽

but it shows this:

▢

Note that I am using the HTML code to display it:

₽

On the desktop version (iMac) it shows fine and I imagine on other operating systems, too.

Anybody got a clue why it's not showing in iOS?

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  • Where exactly do you display it? In a `UIWebView`? Or in a `UILabel` or `UITextView`/`UITextField`? – dariaa Mar 19 '15 at 14:03
  • fun fact, although this question was asked 5 years ago, Apple messed up the rouble symbol in 2020 with iOS13, lol. It's gone again. Here's the fix https://medium.com/@rooman_v/ios-13-%D0%B8-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8F-5cba666f7ae5 – user1727988 Apr 01 '20 at 16:20

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Ruble symbol supports only iOS 8+.

The Unicode consortium officially designated a code point, U+20BD RUBLE SIGN, ₽, for the new symbol in Unicode 7.0, released 2014-06-16. iOS7 was released earlier. Last entry in this Unicode chart

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The answer given is correct (the symbol was only recently introduced) but there is some really good detailed information on this issue over here: Russian ruble symbol HTML code?

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