The new Dirham symbol

What you will be able to do when you finish: say what the Central Bank of the UAE unveiled on 27 March 2025 and why your screen still cannot draw it, install the module and switch the new sign on or off from one screen without uninstalling anything, answer a finance manager who asks whether this touches the VAT return, warn the rest of the database before you enable it, and clear the three ways the sign renders as an empty box.

Who this is for. You are deciding whether a UAE database should display the new Dirham sign, or you have been asked why an invoice shows a rectangle. Owner, finance manager or consultant — this course assumes no knowledge deeper than knowing what a currency symbol is, and no administration experience beyond finding Settings. It stands on its own: course 1.1 sets up the wider UAE layer, and nothing here depends on having done it.

How to follow along. Every screen, label and field named here is quoted from the Odoone UAE Dirham Symbol user guide, word for word. The walkthrough company — Marina Ridge Trading LLC, a Dubai trading company — was built for this course rather than taken from a live database. Where the new sign appears below it is written as the character ⃃ followed by the words "the new Dirham sign", because that character may not render in the font you are reading this in — and if you are looking at an empty box right now, you have met the subject of this course first-hand.

This content is general information for UAE businesses, not tax, legal, or financial advice. Rules change and cases differ — speak to a qualified advisor about your situation. No filing obligation is cited anywhere in this course, because displaying the new sign is a presentation decision rather than a compliance one.

One sentence to carry through the course. The sign is official, its Unicode code point is agreed, and the world's fonts have not caught up yet — that is one situation in three parts, and every lesson here depends on telling the parts apart.