If you want to display the currency symbols in your Windows Phone 8 App , you can use the Unicode Character Codes.

For example , if you need to display Indian Rupee , you can use the code ₹ . Similarly for the US Dollar , you can use &#x0024

How to Add Indian Currency Symbols to TextBlock in a Windows Phone 8 App ?

Below is a code snippet demonstrating how to use the character code to display the currency symbols dollar and rupee in XAML.

 <TextBlock Text="&#x20b9;" FontSize="128"/>
 <TextBlock Text="&#x0024;" FontSize="128"/>