PHP

From Cashwiki.org.org, the Money Wiki
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.


The peso (Filipino: piso) (sign: ; code: PHP) is the currency of the Philippines. It is subdivided into 100 centavos (Spanish) or sentimo (Filipino). Before 1967, the language used on the banknotes and coins was English and so "peso" was the name used. The language was then changed to Pilipino (the name of the Filipino language then) and so the currency as written on the banknotes and coins is piso.

The peso is usually denoted by the symbol "PhilippinePeso.svg". This symbol was added to the Unicode standard in version 3.2 and is assigned U+20B1 (Template:Unicode). Due to the lack of font support, the symbol is often substituted with a simple "P", a P with one horizontal line instead of two (available as the peseta sign, U+20A7 (Template:Unicode), in some fonts), as "PHP", or "PhP".

This article is based on text from Wikipedia, available under the GFDL.