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The cifrão (Portuguese pronunciation: [siˈfɾɐ̃w̃]) or cifrano[citation needed] is a currency sign similar to the dollar sign ($) but always written with two vertical lines: Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mathrm{S}\!\!\!\Vert . It is the official sign of the Cape Verdean escudo (ISO 4217: CVE) and a common unofficial[citation needed] sign of the Brazilian real (sign: R$; ISO: BRL).
It was formerly used by the Portuguese escudo (ISO: PTE) before its replacement by the euro and by the Portuguese Timor escudo (ISO: TPE) before its replacement by the Indonesian rupiah and the US dollar.
In Portuguese and Cape Verdean usage, the cifrão is placed as a decimal point between the escudo and centavo values (e.g., Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): 2\mathrm{S}\!\!\!\Vert50 ).
Support for the symbol varies. The Unicode standard currently (2010) considers the distinction between one- and two-bar dollar signs a stylistic distinction between fonts and has no separate value for the cifrão; even so, The double-stroke dollar symbol "﹩", similarly represented with two vertical lines, has Unicode code point U+FE69. The Mac OS X supplies the following fonts containing distinct cifrão signs:[citation needed] regular-weight Baskerville, Big Caslon, Bodoni MT, Brush Script MT, Garamond, STFangsong, STKaiti, and STSong. In LaTeX, with the textcomp package installed, the cifrão (Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \mathrm{S}\!\!\!\Vert ) can be input using the command \textdollaroldstyle
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