diff --git a/src/postgres/inventory/type/scalar/pgFloatType.ts b/src/postgres/inventory/type/scalar/pgFloatType.ts
index 8bdb75fa02..c9b79d5754 100644
--- a/src/postgres/inventory/type/scalar/pgFloatType.ts
+++ b/src/postgres/inventory/type/scalar/pgFloatType.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ import { AdapterType, floatType } from '../../../../interface'
 import { sql } from '../../../utils'
 import PgType from '../PgType'
 
+// In the absence of /\p{Sc}/ to match all currency symbols, we get the
+// following regexp from http://stackoverflow.com/a/27175364/141284
+const CURRENY_SYMBOL_REGEXP =
+  /^[\$\xA2-\xA5\u058F\u060B\u09F2\u09F3\u09FB\u0AF1\u0BF9\u0E3F\u17DB\u20A0-\u20BD\uA838\uFDFC\uFE69\uFF04\uFFE0\uFFE1\uFFE5\uFFE6]/
+
 const pgFloatType: PgType<number> & AdapterType<number> = {
   kind: 'ADAPTER',
   baseType: floatType,
@@ -11,7 +16,7 @@ const pgFloatType: PgType<number> & AdapterType<number> = {
     if (typeof value === 'string') {
       // If this number represents money, it has some extra trimmings that
       // need to be fixed.
-      if (value.startsWith('$'))
+      if (CURRENY_SYMBOL_REGEXP.test(value))
         return parseFloat(value.slice(1).replace(',', ''))
 
       return parseFloat(value)