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===OCR-A===
{{further|OCR-A}}
[[File:Verrechnungsscheck, WestLB, Landeshauptkasse Düsseldorf, 2004.jpg|right|thumb|
The OCR-A subheading contains six characters taken from the [[OCR-A]] font described in the ISO 1073-1:1976 standard: {{unichar|2440|OCR HOOK}}, {{unichar|2441|OCR CHAIR}}, {{unichar|2442|OCR FORK}}, {{unichar|2443|OCR INVERTED FORK}}, {{unichar|2444|OCR BELT BUCKLE}}, and {{unichar|2445|OCR BOW TIE}}. The OCR bow tie is given the [[Unicode character property#Name|informative alias]] "unique asterisk".
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===MICR===
{{further|Magnetic ink character recognition}}
[[File:BritishCheque.png|right|thumb|A British style cheque for a fictional bank, showing use of ⑆, ⑈ and ⑉ in the machine-readable line]]
The MICR subheading contains four punctuation characters for [[cheque|bank cheque]] identifiers, taken from the [[magnetic ink character recognition]] E-13B font (codified in the ISO 1004:1995 standard): {{unichar|2446|OCR BRANCH BANK IDENTIFICATION}}, {{unichar|2447|OCR AMOUNT OF CHECK}}, {{unichar|2448|OCR DASH}}, and {{unichar|2449|OCR CUSTOMER ACCOUNT NUMBER}}.
The latter two characters are misnamed: their names were inadvertently switched when they were named in the 1993 (first) edition of [[ISO/IEC 10646]],<ref>{{citation|mode=cs1 |url=https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4103.pdf |page=29 |section=T.3. Optical Character Recognition |title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58 |author=ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 |author-link=ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 |date=2012-01-03 |id=SC2 N4188 / WG2 N4103 |quotation=These Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) symbols are used by banks on checks. The names of these characters were inadvertently mixed up in the 1993 edition of ISO/IEC 10646.}}</ref> a mistake which had been present since Unicode 1.0.0.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/CodeCharts2.pdf |work=The Unicode Standard |version=version 1.0 |title=3.8: Block-by-Block Charts |publisher=[[Unicode Consortium]]}}</ref> Although their formal names remain unchanged due to the Unicode stability policy, they both have corrected [[Unicode character property#Name|normative alias]]es: U+2448 ⑈ is {{sc|MICR ON US SYMBOL}}, and U+2449 ⑉ is {{sc|MICR DASH SYMBOL}}<ref>{{citation|mode=cs1 |url=https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn27/tn27-4.html |title=Known Anomalies in Unicode Character Names |publisher=[[Unicode Consortium]] |id=Unicode Technical Note #27 |first1=Asmus |last1=Freytag |first2=Rick |last2=McGowan |first3=Ken |last3=Whistler |date=2017-04-10 |edition=4}}</ref> (the standard notes that "the Unicode character names include several misnomers").
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