Unicode Trivia U+0891

Codepoint: U+0891 "ARABIC PIASTRE MARK ABOVE"
Block: U+0870..089F "Arabic Extended-B"

Consider this photograph by Tinou Bao:

Fruit Seller
"The guy asked to be photographed"

It could elicit any number of reactions:

1. What wonderfully colourful fruit!
2. Are those dates expensive?
3. I hope he doesn't drop cigarette ash on that fruit
4. His fruit are suspiciously glossy
5. Why did he want his photo taken?
6. That's an interesting symbol above the price

You're in the right place if your reaction was number six.

That symbol, circled in blue, is an Arabic supertending currency symbol for Egyptian piastres. The photo was used as part of the proposal for the addition of two new currency codepoints:

• U+0890 "ARABIC POUND MARK ABOVE"
• U+0891 "ARABIC PIASTRE MARK ABOVE"

The proposal was formally submitted in August 2020, accepted in October 2020 and released as part of Unicode 14.0 in September 2021.

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