No cents symbol!!!

[weirdacejennings]

I am Confused and enraged at the fact of no symbol for cents on the iPod touch's keyboard

[Turboladdade]

There isn't one on a standard desktop keyboard either. Its usage is frowned upon. The proper way to write it is $0.87, not 87¢. Too many people confuse the usage of the old cent symbol, writing things like .87¢ (one 87th of a cent) or $0.99¢.

[wove]

On the desktop keyboard <option> <4> produces the cent symbol.

My 2¢.

[Turboladdade]

But that means it requires a Mac-specific key combo to produce it! Thankfully Mac OS X special character key combos are super easy. What is it on a PC keyboard?

[wove]

In MS Office products the cent symbol is produded with <control><forward-slash><c>. In all Windows applications the cent symbol can be produced by holding down <alt> and typing "155". Holding down the <alt> key and typing the ASCII key code (on the numberic keypad) in Windows will generate that character. That method of producing special characters also works in Linux, and UNIX, and I imagine it could be used in MacOS X terminal applications as well.

My 2¢ (from Windows)

[NoggintheNomad]

I don't have an iPhone. Does it do € or £ symbols?

[Turboladdade]

I don't have an iPhone. Does it do € or £ symbols?

Yes it does, as well as ¥ (Japan) and ₩ (Korea).

[theHalo]

There IS a cent symbol on the iPhone (and so it must be on the iPod too). Tap and hold the Dollar sign an there it is.
(Answered on an iPhone $¢₩¥£€)

[chasm]

Wove:

Oh yes, the Windows way of doing it is MUCH easier.

[PaulPalmer]

Sure the windows way is easier but only if you are running windows. But on my iPhone I tried pressing and holding $ and got $ so what do you do?

[chasm]

I was making a joke. Option-3 produces the cents symbol on a Mac - much quicker than Winblows.

I don't think there is a cents symbol on the iOS devices, sorry.

[chasm]

To theHalo: I don't have a cents symbol on my iPhone using the hold-dollar sign trick. I'm on 3.13.

[Turboladdade]

If you hold the dollar sign down it's the first option. It will be preselected and blue.

[chasm]

Turbo: I swear it isn't. Honest.

[PaulPalmer]

It isn't, good job I'm in the UK