Questions tagged [euro]

The euro (symbol: €) is the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union and is the official currency of the eurozone. Tag euro can be used for programming questions related to euro symbol € and its container character set

Wiki:

The euro (symbol: €) is the currency used by the Institutions of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union and is the official currency of the eurozone.

Entry methods:

In Unicode Sign Euro is encoded at U+20AC.
In HTML Euro sign is written as € or € whiche renders as €.

Generating the euro sign using a computer depends on the operating system and national conventions. Depending on keyboard layout and the operating system, the symbol can be entered as:

AltGr + 4 (UK)

AltGr + 5 (US)

Ctrl + Alt + 4 (UK)

Ctrl + Alt + 5 (US)

Ctrl + Alt + e in in United States layout

Alt + 0128 in Microsoft

Usage:

Tag can be used for programming questions related to euro symbol and its character set. Questions on Stackoverflow are supposed to be related to programming, please avoid currency trading based questions.

Read more:

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro
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TinyMCE plugin not showing euro symbol

I use the last update of the TinyMce plugin and I have a problem with the € key. Nothing happens when I want to insert this € symbol [with ctrl + alt + e]. I read the doc but I dont know what to edit for make it works...
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Grab euro dollar conversion rate in Java

I have an application that has to convert dollar to euro and vice versa. Is there an interface or API I can use to grab the current exchange rate?
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How to output a Euro symbol in a PDF

I am trying to output a Euro symbol to a PDF using Core Graphics. I have the following code, which uses NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding (I had to use this to get £ and $ symbols to appear correctly), but the Euro symbol comes out as ¤ CGRect pageRect =…
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PHP regex to find unencoded euro symbol

I'm in PHP. I'd like to find numbers in a sentence that start with a currency symbol, and returns the number. To search "I spent €100 on shoes" and return "100". I've got this working for $ and £: '/[$£]([0-9.]{1,})/' But adding the € euro symbol…
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Encoding the "€" character in an ISO-8859-1 Oracle database

Is it possible to insert the "€" (as a VARCHAR) in a Oracle Database whose character set is : ISO-8859-1 ? I want to move from ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-15 charset (or even WINDOWS-1252 charset will fit) my database in order to store the "€" in my…
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UTF8, IBX and Firebird with Euro symbol

I am connecting to Firebird through IBX components in Delphi 10.2 Tokyo. I'm trying to connect to the DB through the following code: IBDatabase.Connected := False; IBDatabase.Params.Clear; IBDatabase.DatabaseName :=…
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How to produce Euro symbol in C?

Please give me a sample C program to produce the euro sysmbol. I'm using windows keyboard and program needs to be compiled in linux. Update: Actually I need Euro symbol as a string and need to concatenate it with amount string. I'm having Dell…
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How to convert Euro currency string to float number?

I need to convert a string currency string in Continental Europe format into a float number: Input: '6.150.593,22 €' Realize that decimal point is comma, and thousands separators are period characters. Output: 6150593.22 I'd read these questions,…
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How to show Euro Currency Sign € in a javafx table

I have a text file that contains $ and € currency signs. The dollar signs are shown well while the € currencies are shown as empty boxes in a javafx table. I was wondering which charset do I have to use in order to show the euro currency sign €?
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PHP MySQL utf-8 Euro symbol shown as questionmark on a diamond

So after a whole day of googling and debugging I end up here. MySQL set to the following encoding: db: utf8_general_ci table: utf8_general_ci column: utf8_general_ci, TEXT I put in some euro symbols and some other weird characters acentuação…
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Special characters representation issue in JSP

In JSP file, the source code is |1€3|<%="\u0031\u0080\u0033" %>| The result on the page is: |1€3|13| Why is the Euro symbol represented differently ?
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From Euro currency format to USD currency format in PHP

How can I convert Euor currency format to USD currency format. I just want to format the numbers and no conversion rate is included here. Thanks in advance.
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Issue with displaying Euros using .ToString() Method C#

I am still learning the basics with C# and i am completely baffled by this issue. I am making a program in C# using Windows Forms to convert USD to EURO and vice versa. I am rounding both outputs to the 2nd decimal using the Math.Round method. The…
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Euro symbol encoding - PHP

I've tried a lot of different things and can't get the euro symbol to show. I'm using cURL to parse a page. The page is encoded in ISO-8859-1 There's a euro symbol on the page…
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google api xml EURUSD

I saw that you can pull xml quotes on stocks from the Google API like this: http://www.google.com/ig/api?stock=GOOG Is it possible to get Euro USD xml the same way? This is the site, but need the xml: http://www.google.com/finance?q=EURUSD I'd…
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