Hi Marc,
On 19/02/2011 15:25, Marc Paré wrote:
Hi Sophie:
Le 2011-02-19 07:14, Sophie Gautier a écrit :
The place of the punctuation in numbers depends on the countries and the
system used, so you won't have a standard here. There is countries using
arabic numerals with decimal point, other using arabic numerals with
decimal coma and some other systems too. Also the currency name can be
used as a suffix or prefix depending on the country.
Kind regards
Sophie
Thanks for the reply. My question is whether we decide on a format for
our international related material or do we let the author of these
materials decide?
I think it should be adapted to the region you're directing your
marketing, for a better quality.
For example, if I were to put together a French flyer for the funding
drive, if this is the case then the flyer would have "50,000.05 euro"
(this is just a number for the sake of this discussion).
I think if we were to settle on a standard "LibreOffice international
style" then we could develop material that would not have to be
re-edited. Would we then use the "50,000.05 euro" in France or would it
be "50 000,05" euro?
it needs a coma for France
Would it not make sense to standardise to a style that would be applied
to all three groups: documentation, website and marketing? I think the
documentation group should have the official decision on this as you are
the experts on style and format.
I won't be for a standardization here. As I said above, for quality of
marketing, I won't distribute the same flyers in France, Belgium or
Switzerland. Even in Belgium, most of the time it should be exactly the
same in the 3 languages of the country, plus sometimes in English if the
event is in Brussels.
For French language, we chose France as the reference, so the website
will be in fr-FR, but documentation will reflect the country in which it
is distributed. When I was teaching in Burkina Faso, I changed all the
names and the examples used in the documentation to adapt them. But it's
only my 2 ariarys ;)
Kind regards
Sophie
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