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UAE Dirham Symbol Joins Unicode Standard for Global Digital Use

The official UAE dirham symbol has been assigned the Unicode code U+20C3, allowing technology companies to introduce it consistently across phones, computers, websites and applications. ([Gulf News][19])
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