Symbol of money currency9/8/2023 ![]() It's not just the currency symbol that needs to be localized, it's also the punctuation. You can say "patriotism" is the cause (as the accepted answer seems to have), or you can say pavlovian training is the cause, but both symbols have evolved to mean that comprehensive localization wasn't done, that it's probably not going to work for non-'$' users or non-netflix regions, and that those users may waste their time if they click on that button (when they could be using that precious time instead watching the latest cute cat videos).Īnyway, my point is that localization is important, especially for an invoicing system. To non-dollar users, the '$' is understood as a foreign dollar of some kind, just as the Netflix icon for many people in the world gets recognized as the universal symbol for a movie that is "not available in region". There's three great choices, I think those are the main three choices open to you in developing an icon. It seems quite common to use a melange of various major currency symbols: ![]() Moving on to a more positive note, what symbol should you use: again, another point suggesting it's "a bit silly" to use the dollar symbol.) (Oh - it turns out the the number of net users in China is double the US population. (Of course, the Chinese Yuan is used by far more people than the Euro, and if I'm not mistaken there are now more net-users in China than anywhere else.) If (for some reason) you wanted to use one symbol, you'd probably use the planet's main international currency, the euro, which is used by about twice? as many people as the USD, and of course in a dozen+ languages. Indeed the dollar symbol is often used in say political cartoons, financial cartoons, very much as a symbol of the US broadly. It's an extremely US-centric idea, it's "just silly" if you will. The answer is simply of course, absolutely notĪnd it's surprising there is so much humming-and-hawing about it here. Even if you use green bills that look like USD bills, not using the actual $ symbol could prevent anti-US people from having negative associations. But be wary of using just the $ on its own as it is likely to be misinterpreted as actually meaning 'US dollar' instead of the broader "money".Īlternatively you can go for a more pictorial approach and show some bills and some coins. If it's about invoking the idea of money, you could combine the $ with other elements, for instance placing it on a bag to indicate you're not talking about a specific value. However this relies on them being informed enough, and as such wouldn't be advisable on a site for regular Joes.īut beyond that, it depends on what you're depicting. If you don't know your userbase's location or currency, you could choose to go with ¤, which is the official stand-in symbol for unspecified currency. It might also be possible to do a location-check (via GPS, or IP) and display whichever icon is most appropriate. Like others mentioned, localization and your primary userbase should inform you whether to use $, €, £ or ¥ as 'standard' symbol. ![]()
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