why are most money symbols just Latin script letters with lines through them
$ is S+|, £ is L+—, € is C+=, ¥ is Y+=, ₩ is W+=, ¢ is c+|, ฿ is B+|, ₡ is C+//, ₣ is F+—, ₤ is L+=, ₥ is m+/, ₫ is d+—+_, ₦ is N+=
there only seem to be a few that aren't, ₪ ₨ ₧ ₢
those are even still based on Latin letters except for ₪
@Felthry I do know that prices in japan are more likely to be written as 120円 than ¥120, so maybe the latin-y currency symbols were made specifically for english/western-dominated financial markets?
@Felthry I think, it may be one of those gradual contextual linguistic replacement things? 円 is also character for "circle", as in coin, so maybe other china-adjacent countries use it internally & something else is/was needed to distinguish between them?
yes i did just go through all the things in the currency block of the windows character map
I left out ₠ because I don't know if that was ever actually used